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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankTheCambridgeHandbookofSociolinguisticsThemostcomprehensiveoverviewavailable,thishandbookisanessentialguidetosociolinguisticstoday.Reflectingthebreadthofresearchinthefield,itsurveysawiderangeoftopicsandapproachesinthestudyoflanguagevariationanduseinsociety.Aswell
2、aslinguisticperspectives,thehandbookincludesinsightsfromanthropology,socialpsychology,thestudyofdiscourseandpower,conversationanalysis,theoriesofstyleandstyling,languagecontact,andappliedsociolinguistics.Languagepracticesseemtohavereachednewlevelssincethecommunicationsrevolutionofthelatetwen
3、tiethcentury.Atthesametime,spokencommunicationisstillthemainforceoflanguageidentity,evenifsocialandpeernetworksofthetraditionalface-to-facenaturearefacingstiffcompetitionofthefacebook-to-facebooksort.Themostauthoritativeguidetothestateofthefield,thishandbookshowsthatsociolinguisticsprovidesu
4、s–intandemwithotherbrandsoflinguisticsandthesocialandnaturalsciences–withthebesttoolsforunderstandingourunfoldingevolutionassocialbeings.rajendmesthrieisProfessorofLinguisticsintheDepartmentofEnglishattheUniversityofCapeTown,holdinganNRFresearchchairintheareaofLanguage,Migration,andSocialCha
5、nge.HeservedtwotermsasPresidentoftheLinguisticsSocietyofSouthernAfrica.Hehaspublishedwidelyinthefieldsofsociolinguistics,withspecialreferencetolanguagecontactinSouthAfrica.AmonghispublicationsareIntroducingSociolinguistics(2ndedn.2009,withJoanSwann,AnaDeumert,andWilliamLeap),LanguageinSouthA
6、frica(Cambridge,2002,ed.),andWorldEnglishes(Cambridge,2008,withRakeshM.Bhatt).CAMBRIDGEHANDBOOKSINLANGUAGEANDLINGUISTICSGenuinelybroadinscope,eachhandbookinthisseriesprovidesacompletestate-of-the-fieldoverviewofamajorsub-disciplinewithinlanguagestudyandresearch.Groupedintobroadthematicareas,
7、thechaptersineachvolumeencompassthemostimportantissuesandtopicswithineachsubject,offeringacoherentpictureofthelatesttheoriesandfindings.Together,thevolumeswillbuildintoanintegratedoverviewofthedisciplineinitsentirety.PublishedtitlesTheCambridgeHand
