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u/Labov ยท 2 pointsr/books

Joseph E. Joseph's Language and Politics is a very good, accessible book on the nature of language in the world.

Culture and history through language is studied in Geoffrey Hughes' Swearing, in that our concepts of what is profane reflects our changing societies.