Language, Self, and Society: A Social History of Language

by Peter Burke (Editor), Roy Porter (Editor), Dell H. Hymes (Afterword)

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $32.42

  This important book examines the role of written and spoken language in shaping our sense of reality, in exchanges of social life, and in fashioning our sense of self. It develops a distinctive, socio-historical approach to these issues, offering a range of illuminating studies in the social history of language.