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This new edition of R. A. Hudson's Sociolinguistics will be welcomed by students and teachers alike. To reflect changes in the field since publication of the first edition in 1980, the author has added new sections on politeness, accommodation, and prototypes; and he has expanded discussion of... read more

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We can define sociolinguistics as the study of language in relation to society, and this is how we shall be taking the term in this book.

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This book is in Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. (standard series)
This book is in Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. (standard series)

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  1. Richard A. Hudson (Author)

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