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xi, 222 pages 24 cm Covers many areas of sociolinguistics with examples from around the world, including Njamal kinship terminology (p.21-7) and Walbiri tyiliwiri secret language (p.154-6) Includes bibliographical references Language and its setting -- Kinship terminology -- Componential analysis -- Literal and extended meanings -- Semantics and syntax -- Verbal definitions -- The social situation -- India -- Black English -- Verse and linguistic games -- Linguistic virtuosity -- Borrowing and linguistic continuity -- Language diversification
- Author
- Burling, Robbins
- Publisher
- New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780030810015
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities
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