Variation in the Form and Use of Language

Publisher Marketing: Features twenty-four linguists who analyze natural and social differences in language form, use, and attitudes.

Contributor Bio:  Fasold, Ralph W Ralph Fasold is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. He is the author of four books and editor or co-editor of six others. Among them are the textbooks The Sociolinguistics of Society (1984) and The Sociolinguistics of Language (1990).