MARTIN J. BALL (ed.), Clinical Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Language in Society Series 36). Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. Pp. xx + 335. ISBN: 978–1-4051–1249–9

• Published in: Journal of the International Phonetic Association Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 201 - 204
• Main Author: Munson, Benjamin
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2007
• Subjects: Communication; Dialects; Gender; Handbooks; Laboratories; Linguistics; Pathology; Phonetics; Phonology; Society; Sociolinguistics; Speech therapy; Stereotypes; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US

Sociolinguistics also examines the inuence of power, ethnicity, and patterns of migration on language use. [...]sociolinguistics has examined how social institutions, such as legislative and educational systems, seek to guide the way that language is used or taught. [...]research in SLP has sought t...