Author: Peter Trudgill
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Keywords: change, variation, sociolinguistic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-01
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0748615156
ISBN-13: 9780748615155

Sociolinguistic Variation and Change is a selection of Peter Trudgill’s major works since 1990, appearing here in updated and revised form. The book deals with a number of different but related topics: *The role of English in the world, and the nature of Standard English or Englishes *Language as a human issue and how sociolinguistic research might solve educational and other real-world problems *The problematic and interconnected relationships between nation and language and dialect, and the linguistic characteristics of the varieties concerned *Sociohistorical linguistics, in particula

Author: William Labov
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: communication, conduct, patterns, sociolinguistic
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1973-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0812210522
ISBN-13: 9780812210521

This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting.

Author: Jenny Cheshire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: perspectives, sociolinguistic, world, english
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1991-04-26
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0521395658
ISBN-13: 9780521395656

This volume looks at the little explored but increasingly important topic of the development of English as a world language. It gives a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of variation in the use of the English language around the world. Overview papers, written by specialist authors, survey the social context in which English is spoken in those parts of the world where it is widely used. Case study papers then provide representative examples of the empirical research that has been carried out into the English spoken in the areas covered by the overview. The volume therefore contr

Author: R. Anthony Lodge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: french, parisian, history, sociolinguistic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-03-29
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521821797
ISBN-13: 9780521821797

Paris became the largest city in the Western world during the thirteenth century, and has remained influential ever since. This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population through various phases of immigration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from the Middle Ages to the present. It reveals how new urban modes of speech developed during periods of expansion, how the city’s elites sought to distinguish their language from that of the masses, and how a working-class vernacular eventually emerged with its own "slang" vocabulary.

Authors:Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: variation, sociolinguistic, style
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-01-14
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0521597897
ISBN-13: 9780521597890

The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology an

Author: Sali A. Tagliamonte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: topics, sociolinguistics, key, variation, sociolinguistic, analysing
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2006-05-29
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0521771153
ISBN-13: 9780521771153

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the actual tools and methods have been largely passed on through ’word of mouth’, rather than being formally documented. This is the first comprehensive ’how to’ guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation. It shows step-by-step how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a research project from start to finish. Topics covered include fieldwork, data organization and man

Author: Alexandra Jaffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, sociolinguistics, oxford, perspectives, sociolinguistic, stance
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195331648
ISBN-13: 9780195331646

All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-à-vis the expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech. This book brings together contributions in a new and dynamic current of academic explorations of stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical texts, naturally occurring conversation, classroom interaction and interviews, leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics in this volume explore how linguistic stancetaking is implicated in the repr