Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on applied sociolinguistics : from the language medium of education to the semiotic language of the media / edited by Robert N. St. Clair.

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : Coronado Press, 1979.

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Additional Authors

St. Clair, Robert N.

Description

258 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Alternative Title

Applied socio-linguistics.

Subject

Sociolinguistics

Note

• Cover title: Applied socio-linguistics.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[The language medium of education] -- Applied sociolinguistics / Robert N. St. Clair -- The politics of standard English / Robert N. St. Clair -- Standardization and the ecology of language / Glendon F. Drake -- Should we teach urban Black students Standard English? / Roberta D. Riley -- Populations and the use of language / Dale Jamieson -- Linguistic trends among African students : case study / Jeffrey Kaplan -- Speech rate as a function of dialect geography / Howard A. Freiman -- Language and self-image in the composition classroom / Thelma Borodkin -- [The semiotic language of the media] -- Public language and public policy / James S. Eiseman -- Misrepresentation of linguistics in the media / William R. Riley -- Advertising as a cultural language / Dennis R. Hall and Linda Sarecino-Resh -- The sociolinguistics of literature / Bates Hoffer -- A linguistic Analysis of some Commercial TV Ads / Thomas C. Agoston and Walburga von Raffler-Engel -- Linguistic dimensions of broadcasting / Jeffrey Rothchild -- On socio-kinesics in education / Walburga von Raffler-Engel.

ISBN

0872911365

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library