The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

Book Overview

This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In 27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197537510
• ISBN13: 9780197537510
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.5"