Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xii
Symbols for Vowels Used in This Volume xiii
Articulatory Position of Vowels Used in This Volume xiv
Introduction 1
Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen
1 A Historical Assessment of Research Questions inSociolinguistics 7
Kirk Hazen
Part I Types of Data and Methods of Data Collection23
2 Sociolinguistic Interviews 25
Michol Hoffman
3 Written Surveys and Questionnaires in Sociolinguistics42
Erik Schleef
4 Experimental Methods in Sociolinguistics 58
Katie Drager
5 Computer-mediated Communication and Linguistic Landscapes74
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Part II Methods of Analysis 91
Focusing on Features of Language from a SociolinguisticPerspective 92
6 Sociohistorical Analysis 93
Terttu Nevalainen
7 Corpus Linguistics in Sociolinguistics 107
Paul Baker
8 Phonetic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 119
Erik R. Thomas
9 Phonological Considerations in Sociophonetics 136
Paul Kerswill and Kevin Watson
10 Morphosyntactic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 149
Julia Davydova
11 Vocabulary Analysis in Sociolinguistic Research 163
Michael Adams
12 Doing Discourse Analysis in Sociolinguistics 177
Janet Holmes
13 Words and Numbers: Statistical Analysis in Sociolinguistics194
Gregory R. Guy
Focusing on Aspects of Sociocultural Context in AnalyzingLanguage 211
14 Anthropological Analysis in Sociolinguistics 213
Alexandra Jaffe
15 Conversation Analysis in Sociolinguistics 230
Paul Drew
16 Geographical Dialectology 246
David Britain
17 Speech Communities, Social Networks, and Communities ofPractice 262
Robin Dodsworth
18 Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation in Multilingual Contexts276
Rajend Mesthrie
19 Social Context, Style, and Identity in Sociolinguistics290
Nikolas Coupland
20 Researching Children's Acquisition of SociolinguisticCompetence 304
Carmel O'Shannessy
Index 325