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| What is Language? | |
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| The Complexity of Language | |
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| The Levels of Language | |
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| The Arbitrary Nature of Language | |
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| Language and Thought | |
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| First-Language Acquisition | |
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| Notes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Field Methods Recipes for Discovery | |
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| Sociolinguistics and Field Methods | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Style of Speech Style as Communication | |
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| Greetings | |
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| Address Forms | |
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| Style and Interaction | |
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| The Elements of Style | |
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| Marked and Unmarked Values in Style | |
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| Phonetic, Lexical and Syntactic Alternants | |
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| Power and Solidarity | |
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| Universal Politeness | |
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| Negative and Positive Face | |
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| Notes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Kinesics: The Silent Language Body Language | |
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| Proxemics | |
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| Eye Contact | |
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| Touching | |
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| Amount of Talking | |
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| Body Motion in Concert | |
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| Problems in Research in Paralinguistics | |
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| Notes | |
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| Pragmatics and Conversation Doing things with words | |
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| Speech Acts and Discourse Routines | |
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| Frames | |
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| Speech Events and Genres | |
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| Intention | |
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| Conversation | |
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| The Ethnography of Communication | |
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| Silence | |
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| Ritual Nature of Conversation | |
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| Jargons | |
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| Notes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Orality and Literacy Verbal Skill | |
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| Literacy | |
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| The Uses of Spelling | |
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| Communicating by Computer | |
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| Verbal Play | |
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| Speech Activities and Social Pressures | |
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| Ego-Boosting in Speech Activities | |
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| Notes | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Everybody Speaks a Dialect Language versus Dialect | |
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| Traditional regional Dialect Studies | |
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| The Myth of the General American | |
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| Dialect Differences | |
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| Black Ethnic Speech | |
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| Development of an American Standard | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bilingualism: Individual and Social Monolingualism and bilingualism | |
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| Different Language, Different Mind? Language and Thought | |
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| Bilingualism Across Generations | |
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| Official Languages | |
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| Notes | |
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| Speech Communities What Constitutes a Speech Community | |
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| Different Dialects, Same Region | |
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| Network Theory | |
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| The Value of a Sociolinguistic Survey | |
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| Diglossia | |
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| Language Choice and Social Bonding | |
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| The Origins of American Dialects | |
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| Notes | |
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| Vocabulary and Gender Vocabulary as a Mirror of Social Realities | |
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| Gender and Language | |
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| Language as Mirror | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sociolinguistics and the Professions Applications of Sociolinguistics | |
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| Language and Medicine | |
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| Psychotherapy | |
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| Language and the Law | |
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| Discourse Practices and Education | |
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| Dialects and Reading | |
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| Applications to Bilingual Education | |
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| Language and Religion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Exercises | |