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AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS The new eighth edition of An Introduction to
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Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in
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In Writing Genres, Amy J. Devitt examines genre from rhetorical, social, linguistic,
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Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal
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An exploration of the history and status of the English language around the world focuses on
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A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in sociolinguistics for the propagation of an
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This book examines interactive electronic discourse, exposing use of language that has the
immediacy characteristic of speech and the permanence characteristic of writing. The …

The second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in
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