Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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1 Liliane Haegeman, Introduction to Government and Binding Theory (Second Edition)
2 Andrew Spencer, Morphological Theory
3 Helen Goodluck, Language Acquisition
4 Martin Atkinson, Children’s Syntax
5 Diane Blakemore, Understanding Utterances
6 Michael Kenstowicz, Phonology in Generative Grammar
7 Deborah Schiffrin, Approaches to Discourse
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9 Natsuko Tsujimura, An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (Third Edition)
10 Robert D. Borsley, Modern Phrase Structure Grammar
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13 Liliane Haegeman and Jacqueline Guéron, English Grammar: A Generative Perspective
14 Stephen Crain and Diane Lillo‐Martin, An Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition
15 Barbara A. Fennell, A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach
16 Henry Rogers, Writing Systems: A Linguistic ApproachBenjamin W. Fortson IV, Indo‐European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Second Edition)
17 Liliane Haegeman, Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
18 Mark Hale, Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method
19 Bruce Hayes, Introductory Phonology
20 Betty J. Birner, Introduction to Pragmatics
21 Joan Bresnan, Lexical‐Functional Syntax (Second Edition)
22 Henning Reetz, Allard Jongman, Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception (Second Edition)
23 Ronald Wardhaugh and Janet M. Fuller, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Eighth Edition)
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Benjamin W Fortson, Indo‐European Language and Culture: An Introduction (Third Edition)
AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS
RONALD WARDHAUGH AND JANET M. FULLER
EIGHTH EDITION
This edition first published 2021
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Basil Blackwell Ltd (1e 1986); Blackwell Publishers Ltd (2e 1992, 3e 1998, and 4e 2002); Blackwell Publishing Ltd (5e 2006, 6e 2010); Wiley Blackwell (7e 2015)
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Wardhaugh, Ronald, author. | Fuller, Janet M., 1962– author.
Title: An introduction to sociolinguistics / Ronald Wardhaugh and Janet M. Fuller.
Description: 8th edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2021. | Series: Blackwell textbooks in linguistics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021004384 (print) | LCCN 2021004385 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119473428 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119473497 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119473541 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sociolinguistics.
Classification: LCC P40 .W27 2021 (print) | LCC