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Topics of the day:



 1. Textbooks for Sociolinguistics (4)

 2. letter frequency

 3. nibby



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Date:  Thu, 29 Sep 1994 10:03:35 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Textbooks for Sociolinguistics



As long as we're on a textbook thread, do any of you have suggestions

for Sociolinguistics? I've got to turn in a book order for it next week.

The two times I've taught the course before I've used Wardhaugh. Although

it works ok, the students find it a bit dry and boring. So do I. I've

thought about using Fasold but don't want to make the students buy two

books and am not sure that buying just one of the two would give a full

enough view (_Sociolinguistics of Language_ and _Sociolinguistics of

Society_).

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)