TY - BOOK AU - Chaika, Elaine TI - Language: the social mirror SN - 9781424004324 AV - P40 .C43 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Australia PB - Heinle,cengage learning N1 - Includes bibliography and index; What is language? -- Field methods -- Style of speech -- Kinesics :the silent language --pragmatics and conversation -- Orality and literacy -- Everybody speaks dialect -- Bilingualism:individual and social -- Speech communities -- Vocabulary and gender -- Sociolinguistics and the professions ER -