This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.
In this book, Glyn Williams presents an account of the emergence and development of French Discourse Analysis and the contribution which both sociology and linguistics make to the social construction of meaning.
Originally published in 1992. This provocative book calls for a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions underpinning sociolinguistics. Going back to... Læs mere
This book critically examines the European Union’s “Unity in Diversity” mantra with regard to language. The book will be of interest to sociolinguists, political scientists, sociologists, as well as scholars of language and globalization and European studies.