01132nam a2200205Ia 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020001800063040000900081041000800090050001300098100002000111245004300131250000700174260005600181300006800237490004400305520055200349650002500901761320250219180754.0200729s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a0-521-45663-0  cB000  aeng  aP40bD69  aDownes, William 0aLanguage and society /cWilliam Downes  a2a  aEstados Unidos :bCambridge University Press,c1998  a503 p. :bgráficas, esquemas e ilustraciones,c12.9 x 19.5 cm  aCambridge approaches to lingüístics  aLanguage is indissolubly linked with the members of the society in which it is spoken, and social factors are inevitably reflected in their speech. In this new and updated edition of his highly successful textbook, Downes surveys the various ways that language can be studied as a social phenomenon. He discusses the known relationships between language variation and large-scale social factors, showing how the variation runs along 'fault lines in social structure?, such as divisions between social clases, the sexes and different ethnic groups.  aSociolingüística