| Description |
1 online resource ( 510 pages.) |
| Series |
Learning about Language |
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Learning about language.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Brief Contents; Table of Contents; Preface to Fourth Edition; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; Author's Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; 1 What do sociolinguists study?; What is a sociolinguist?; Why do we say the same thing in different ways?; What are the different ways we say things?; Social factors, dimensions and explanations; Section I Multilingual Speech Communities; 2 Language choice in multilingual communities; Choosing your variety or code; Diglossia |
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Code-switching or code-mixing3 Language maintenance and shift; Language shift in different communities; Language death and language loss; Factors contributing to language shift; How can a minority language be maintained?; Language revival; 4 Linguistic varieties and multilingual nations; Vernacular languages; Standard languages; Lingua francas; Pidgins and creoles; 5 National languages and language planning; National and official languages; Planning for a national official language; Developing a standard variety in Norway; The linguist's role in language planning |
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Section II Language Variation: Focus on Users6 Regional and social dialects; Regional variation; Social variation; Social dialects; 7 Gender and age; Gender-exclusive speech differences: highly structured communities; Gender-preferential speech features: social dialect research; Gender and social class; Explanations of women's linguistic behaviour; Age-graded features of speech; Age and social dialect data; Age grading and language change; 8 Ethnicity and social networks; Ethnicity; Social networks; 9 Language change; Variation and change; How do changes spread? |
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How do we study language change?Reasons for language change; Section III Language Variation: Focus on Uses; 10 Style, context and register; Addressee as an influence on style; Accommodation theory; Context, style and class; Style in non-Western societies; Register; 11 Speech functions, politeness and cross-cultural communication; The functions of speech; Politeness and address forms; Linguistic politeness in different cultures; 12 Gender, politeness and stereotypes; Women's language and confidence; Interaction; Gossip; The linguistic construction of gender |
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The linguistic construction of sexualitySexist language; 13 Language, cognition and culture; Language and perception; Whorf; Linguistic categories and culture; Discourse patterns and culture; Language, social class and cognition; 14 Analysing discourse; Pragmatics and politeness theory; Ethnography of speaking; Interactional sociolinguistics; Conversation Analysis (CA); Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); 15 Attitudes and applications; Attitudes to language; Sociolinguistics and education; Sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics; 16 Conclusion; Sociolinguistic competence; Dimensions of sociolinguistic analysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Mar. 28, 2014) |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317860723 electronic bk |
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1317860721 electronic bk |
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