Language and society - Downes, William ([London] : Fontana Paperbacks, 1984)
Linguistics and sociolinguistics -- A tapestry in space and time -- Language varieties: processes and problems -- Discovering the structure in variation -- Rhoticity -- At the intersection of social factors -- Change, meaning and acts of identity -- Discourse games -- Knowledge of words and knowledge of the world -- A mode of action -- Language and social explanation.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [365]-378.
Keywords: Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics