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SPAN 7306: Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistics

Presents a sociolinguistic approach to the Spanish spoken in the U.S: the different varieties of Spanish the consequences of interlanguage contact ; relevant historical, social, cultural, and political factors.

Series from major publishers

  • Language & Society series (Wiley Blackwell) 
  • Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics (Oxford UP) 
  • Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics (Oxford UP) 

General Resources at the University of Memphis

Ball, M. J. (2010). The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistics around the world. London: Routledge.

Coulmas, F. (Ed.).  (1998). The handbook of sociolinguistics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Online edition: "This NetLibrary eBook does not include some or all of the images that were part of the original hardcopy book."

Coulmas, F. (Ed.).  (1997). The handbook of sociolinguistics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Print edition.

Llamas, C., Mullany, L., & Stockwell, P. (2007). The Routledge companion to sociolinguistics. London: Routledge.

Trudgill, P., & Cheshire, J. (Eds.).  (1998). The sociolinguistics reader. London: Arnold.

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