authors:subjects:publishers:series:- Routledge English language introductions
ISBN:- 0415401275 (pbk.) :
- 9780415401272 (pbk.)
- 0415401267 (hbk.) :
- 9780415401265 (hbk.)
description:notes:- Previous ed.: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.
- A. Introduction: Key Concepts in Sociolinguistics 1 A sociolinguistic toolkit 2 Accent and dialect 3 Register and style 4 Ethnicity and multilingualism 5 Variation and change 6 Standardisation 7 Gender 8 Pidgins and creoles 9 New, national and international Englishes 10 Politeness and accommodation 11 Conversation 12 Applying sociolinguistics B. Development: Studies in Language and Society 1 Undertaking a sociolinguistic study 2 Attitudes to accent variation 3 Euphemism, register and code 4 Code-switching 5 Social networks 6 Shifts in prestige 7 Genderlects 8 Patwa and post-creolisation 9 Singlish and new Englishes 10 Politeness in mixed-sex conversation 11 Phatics in spoken discourse 12 Language and ideology C. Exploration: Data for Investigation 1 Collecting and exploring data 2 Dialectal variation 3 Register 4 Ethnology 5 Perceptions of variation 6 Prestige 7 Gender 8 Creole 9 New English 10 Politeness 11 E-discourse 12 Critical discourse analysis D. Extension: Sociolinguistic Readings 1 Sociolinguistics and language change (Hamer) 2 Foreign accents in America (Lippi-Green) 3 Style and ideology (Fairclough) 4 Language contact and code-switching (Edwards) 5 The sociolinguist's responsibility (Cameron) 6 The process of standardisation (Milroy) 7 Men's language (Coates) 8 The origins of pidgins and creoles (Sebba) 9 World Englishes and contact literature (Kachru) 10 The politics of talk (Mullany) 11 Closing turns (Schegloff and Sacks) 12 Linguistic detection (Coulthard) Further Reading References Glossarial Index
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