Speech Communities

by Marcyliena Morgan

Book Overview

What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech communities are not organized around linguistic facts but around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107678145
• ISBN13: 9781107678149
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"