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About professor rajend mesthrie my interests are in general linguistics, my main early training being in historical linguistics, especially the history of english. Introducing sociolinguistics 2nd edition open research online. In the past ive worked on bhojpurihindi, english dialects, fanakalo pidgin. Joan swann is a senior lecturer in the centre for language and communication in the school of education at the open university. Buy introducing sociolinguistics 2nd revised edition by rajend mesthrie, joan swann, ana deumert, william l. Books by rajend mesthrie author of introducing sociolinguistics. This second edition of introducing sociolinguistics expertly synthesises the main approaches to the subject. The contribution of sociolinguistics to the allen walker read peacekeeping process t t he members of an audience like this are sure to be in favor of peace and comradeship among peoples. On a wider scope, the themes will recur across the discussions of dialects, multilingualism, discourse, and social justice. But, for whatever reason, i felt like this book didnt really teach me much i didnt already know. Increase in age also seemed to be associated with an increase in the. World englishes with rakesh bhatt, cup 2008, introducing sociolinguistics second edition. The cambridge handbook of sociolinguistics edited by rajend.
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