Title Talk that counts : age, gender, and social class differences in discourse / Ronald K.S. Macaulay

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description x, 225 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents 1. Discourse variation -- 2. Methodology -- 3. The sample -- 4. Social class -- 5. Decoding Bernstein -- 6. Talk in action -- 7. Some common discourse features -- 8. Syntactic variation -- 9. Modals and modality -- 10. Adverbs and social class -- 11. Articles and pronouns -- 12. The use of dialogue in narratives -- 13. Results of quantitative measures -- 14. Discourse styles -- 15. Discourse sociolinguistics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index Subject Scots language -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- Glasgow. Scots language -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Spoken Scots Scots language -- Variation -- Scotland -- Glasgow. Scots language -- Dialects -- Scotland -- Glasgow. Language and social status -- Scotland -- Glasgow English language -- Discourse analysis. Urban dialects -- Scotland -- Glasgow. Discourse analysis. Sociolinguistics. SUBJECT Glasgow (Scotland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81039926 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 Glasgow (Scotland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81039926 -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006384 LC no. 2003059247 ISBN 0195173821 0195173813 (alk. paper)

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