Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English
Author: Peter Trudgill
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 202
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Sociolinguistics in England
Author: Natalie Braber
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1137562889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics on different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across the country. Allowing the reader to engage with contemporary research in the field, each chapter is unique in the topic or geographical area explored. Topics include historical sociolinguistics, British Sign Language, lexical variation, life-span change, and variation and innovation in urban and peripheral areas; while the regions covered range from Cornwall to West Cumbria. Edited and authored by a range of international scholars, this is sure to be a key research resource for students and scholars interested in language use in England.
English Around the World
Author: Jenny Cheshire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-04-26
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780521395656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social development of English as a world language emerges from a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of it as well as the gaps in understanding which future research can remedy.
Sociolinguistic Patterns
Author: William Labov
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1973-09
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780812210521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Ditransitives in British English Dialects
Author: Johanna Gerwin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-09-23
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 3110373580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this ‘dative alternation’ as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across different British English dialects, registers and time frames. It thereby offers a novel, language-external explanation of the choice of one construction over the other and sheds new light on British dialect syntax.
Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech
Author: Vaclav Brezina
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-23
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1351975722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British speech. The book begins with short introductions highlighting the state-of-the-art in three major areas of corpus-based sociolinguistics, while the remaining chapters feature rigorous analysis of the research outcomes of the project grounded in Spoken BNC2014 data samples, highlighting English used in everyday situations in the UK, with brief summaries reflecting on the sociolinguistic implications of this research included at the end of each chapter. This unique and robust dataset allows this team of researchers the unique opportunity to focus on speaker characteristics such as gender, age, dialect and socio-economic status, to examine a range of sociolinguistic dimensions, including grammar, pragmatics, and discourse, and to reflect on the major changes that have occurred in British society since the last corpus was compiled in the 1990s. This dynamic new contribution to the burgeoning field of corpus-based sociolinguistics is key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, grammar, and British English.
Sociolinguistic Styles
Author: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1119555434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted overview of the phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field, the text explores why, where and when it occurs. Full examination of the complex phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistics, focusing on its nature and social motivations, as well as on the mechanisms for its usage and its effects In-depth, up-to-date critical overview of the different theoretical approaches accounting for stylistic variation, exploring their historical roots not only in sociolinguistics and stylistics or semiotics but also in classical fields such as rhetoric and oratory Coverage of a wide range of related concepts and issues, from the oldest Greek ethos and pathos or Roman elocutio and pronuntiatio to the contemporary enregisterment, stylisation, stance, or crossing Written by an academic who has been instrumental in developing theory in this area of sociolinguistics
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Author: Ronald Wardhaugh
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1118732294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully updated to reflect the most recent scholarship in the field and revised to include many more pedagogical features, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th Edition builds on its foundation as the most preeminent textbook in sociolinguistics, updated for today's students. • Significantly revised discussions throughout each of the book's four key parts reflect the state of the field today • Includes new chapters on Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics and Education • Incorporates innovative new perspectives drawn from linguistic anthropology • Provides an accessible history of the development of sociolinguistic thought and how this fast-moving field is integral to our lives • Includes numerous opportunities for students to engage with ideas presented in the text through a new glossary, new Explorations and end-of-chapter exercises, links, and key concepts • New companion website includes links and resources for students
Grammatical Variation in British English Dialects
Author: Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1107003458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech data collected in over thirty counties. The book presents a new approach known as 'corpus-based dialectometry', which focuses on the joint quantitative measurement of dozens of grammatical features to gauge regional differences.
Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents
Author: Costin-Valentin Oancea
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-09-23
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1443812862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents a synchronic sociolinguistic analysis of gender-related variation in the speech of English and Romanian adolescents. It is motivated by the belief that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that a comprehensive understanding of language must include a grasp of the nature and function of variation. The book analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, thus representing a major contribution to the study of language in its social context.
