Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
Jan 8, 1991
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-10
0631136231
ISBN-13
9780631136231
Description
Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the manner in which patterns of linguisitic variation characterize particular groups (social and cultural, geographic, male and female) within a complex urban community.