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Language and social networks
Lesley Milroy
- 01 Jan 1980
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TL;DR: This book discusses language, Class and Community, and Studying Language in the Community: The Fieldworker and the Social Network, which aims to clarify the role of language in the community and its role in the lived experience.
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Abstract: Editora s Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgements. 1. Language, Class and Community. 2. Obtaining Data in the Speech Community: Major Principles. 3. Studying Language in the Community: The Fieldworker and the Social Network. 4. The Social Context of Speech Events. 5. The Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Data. 6. The Language of the Individual Speaker: Patterns of Variation and Network Structure. 7. Conclusions and Theoretical Implications. Appendix. References. Index.
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