The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society

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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"

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