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The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others.

In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is perfect for general readers and students who want to learn about what it is that linguists do.

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  • Title The Social Art: Language and Its Uses
  • Author Ronald K. Macaulay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Publication date 2006-02-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195187960 / 0195187962
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.32 x 0.58 in (23.57 x 16.05 x 1.47 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Sociolinguistics, Language and languages
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005049871
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.44

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  • Choice, 11/01/2006, Page 477

About the author

Ronald K. S. Macaulay is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College. He is the author of Language, Social Class and Education (1977), Locating Dialect in Discourse (1991), Standards and Variation in Urban Speech (1997), and Talk that Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse (OUP, 2005). The first edition of The Social Art was published in 1995.
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