By Sali A. Tagliamonte
- Represents the main updated insurance of the historical past, advancements, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics
- Addresses all elements of linguistic version, together with parts now not frequently coated in introductory texts, e.g. the phonological, morpho-syntactic, discourse/pragmatic
- Outlines comparative sociolinguistic procedure, facts assortment, methodological matters; and addresses state of the art modern quantitative tools and statistical practice
- Features state of the art learn at a suitable point to facilitate scholar learning
- Engages scholars all through with numerous pedagogical beneficial properties, together with Mini Quizzes to check comprehension, huge Exercises on the finish of every bankruptcy, the chance to do hands-on quantitative research of a never-before released info set, and Notes and Tips that supply perception into undertaking sociolinguistic learn. additional fabrics and solutions to the workouts can be found at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte
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Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation (Language in Society) by Sali A. Tagliamonte
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