Human Communication Across Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Introduction to Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics

by Karen Williams, Vincent Remillard, Karen Williams, et al.

Book Overview

Human Communication Across Cultures is a highly interactive textbook and workbook on how human communication takes place. Unlike other textbooks which focus only on sociolinguistics this book employs both sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Sociolinguistics explores how language is used in social interactions. There are differences in the way we speak due to where we live, gender, age, race/ethnicity, religious background and our social class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781793557
• ISBN13: 9781781793558
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"