Richard J Watts, Franz Andres Morrissey

Gebundenes Buch

Language, the Singer and the Song

The Sociolinguistics of Folk Performance

Beschreibung

This book discusses performance in communities of practice, social criticism through song, and how folk song and language interact.

Autor

Richard J. Watts is emeritus professor of Modern English Linguistics, retired from the Chair in that discipline at the University of Bern since 2008. He is one of the world's leading experts in linguistic politeness research and is author of five books including Politeness (2003) and Language Myths and the History of English (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 241mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781107112711
• ISBN-10: 1107112710
• Artikelnr.: 50441723