Language and Social Networks

by Lesley Milroy

First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition incorporates an extensive new chapter reappraising the original research and discussing other sociolinguistic work in the same paradigm.

Genres: Linguistics, Language

247 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[elge]

since I developed an interest in social network analysis, I have been reading some of the coolest linguistics ever. This seminal work was already so cool, and from what I know of more recent research the field just keeps getting cooler and cooler. I just love sociolinguistics

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

comprehensible and well explained account of an important research project that set standards in linguistics.