| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; SECTION A Introduction to Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics; 1. Sociolinguistic Investigations of Variation; 2. Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics; 3. Corpora and Corpus Tools; 4. Corpus Design and Representativeness; 5. Expansion, Limitations, and Future Directions of Corpus Work in Sociolinguistics; SECTION B Survey of Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Studies; 1. Corpora and the Study of Languages and Dialects; 2. Corpus-Based Studies of Gender, Sexuality, and Age; 3. Politeness and Stance |
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4. Workplace Discourse5. Language Change: Diachronic Studies of Change; 6. Web Registers; SECTION C Conducting Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Studies; 1. Designing Your Own Sociolinguistic Corpus; 2. Multidimensional Analysis of Linguistic Variation; 3. Studying Temporal Change; 4. Applications: Keyword Analysis, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), and Using POS-Tagged Data in Sociolinguistic Research; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have greater access to data from around the world and in a variety of languages through websites, blogs, and social networking sites, and there is a high level of interest among these scholars in applying corpora and corpus-based methods to other research areas, particularly sociolinguistics. This innovative guidebook presents a systematic, in-depth account of using corpora in sociolinguistics. It introduces and expands the ap |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hardy, Jack
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| ISBN |
9781136292774 |
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1136292772 |
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