ISBN:
9780429018787
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 376 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Third edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Meyerhoff, Miriam, 1964 - Introducing sociolinguistics
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Lehrbuch
;
Lehrbuch
;
Soziolinguistik
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Sounds and symbols used in the text -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- What is sociolinguistics? -- How do sociolinguists study sociolinguistics? -- Making broader connections -- Sociolinguistic questions -- Structure of this book -- On quantitative and qualitative methods -- On sociolinguistic methods more generally -- Using this book with The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader -- Chapter 2 Variation and language -- Variables and variants -- Regional dialectology: Mapping speakers and places -- Using regional dialect data to inform theory -- Standards, norms and alternations from the norms -- Martha's Vineyard: A study of social dialects -- Stereotypes, markers and indicators -- Factors motivating variation -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 Variation and style -- Introduction -- Studying variation in speakers' style -- The New York City social dialect survey -- Prestige of a variable -- In search of the unknowable: The observer's paradox -- Challenging style as attention to speech -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 Language attitudes -- Introduction -- Language attitudes in language change -- Linguistic relativism -- Reclaiming derogatory terms -- Perceptual dialectology -- Attitudes to language: Identities and accommodation -- Social identity theory -- Accommodation theory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 5 Verbal politeness - interactional options -- Introduction -- Theories of politeness -- Applications of politeness theory: Intercultural communication -- Critiques of politeness theory -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 6 Multilingualism and language choice -- Introduction -- Language policy and language planning in multilingual societies
Abstract:
Language rights in South Africa's constitution -- Language rights in Vanuatu's constitution -- Ethnolinguistic vitality -- Using the model of language vitality -- Diglossia in a community -- Is 'vitality' the same as 'prestige'? -- Code switching and code mixing -- Speech levels as different codes -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 Real time and apparent time -- Introduction -- Studying change over time -- Real time studies of change -- Apparent time studies of change -- Real time tests of the apparent time construct -- Profiles of change -- Challenges associated with real and apparent time sampling -- Language and ageing -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 Social class -- Introduction -- Social class -- Class as a factor in linguistic variation -- Fine and broad stratification -- Cross-over effects and change from above/ below -- Class and historical sociolinguistics -- The intersection of class and style -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 9 Social networks and communities of practice -- Introduction -- Social networks -- Communities of practice: Highly local networks -- Case studies of social networks and language variation -- Not all networks are equal -- How occupation interacts with social networks -- Who leads? -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 10 Gender -- Introduction -- Sex or gender -- Exclusive gender differences -- Preferential gender differences -- Principles of gender and variation: A historical picture -- Moving beyond Labov's principles -- Gender practices -- Strategic use of gender differences -- Gendered style -- Gender and sexuality -- Wider implications of rethinking gender -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Appendix -- Chapter 11 Language contact -- How contact between varieties affects variation and change -- Dialect levelling -- Global contact: Global English?
Abstract:
Contact-induced change -- Sociolinguistic constraints on contact -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 12 Looking back and looking ahead -- Variation is what we know -- Theory in sociolinguistics -- Interpreting and motivating variation -- A final word: The triumph of multiple causation -- Notes on the exercises -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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