TY - BOOK AU - Downes,William TI - Language and society T2 - Fontana linguistics SN - 0006361854 (pbk.) PY - 1984///] CY - [London] PB - Fontana Paperbacks KW - Sociolinguistics N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [365]-378; 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 ER -