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Second edition 1992, third edition 1998, and fourth edition 2002 published by blackwell publishers ltd fifth edition published 2006 by blackwell publishing ltd 1 2006 library of congress cataloginginpublication data wardhaugh, ronald. An introduction to sociolinguistics, 7th edition wiley. Language, society and power is an introductory text to studying language in a variety of social contexts. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of wordsmorphology or phonologyand more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around usfor instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which.
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