Semantic Variation: Meaning in Society (Collected Works of Ruqaiya Hasan)

by JonathanJ.Webster (Author), RuqaiyaHasan (Editor)

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  2009

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  Studies of variation of language have by and large been restricted to the level of expression. This work offers a critique of sociolinguistic, arguing that since meaning is critical to all contexts of life in society, ignoring it has led to a number of serious problems, foremost among them a mis-conception of the nature of sociolinguistics itself.