
Language Variation and Change
Routledge (Publisher)
Published on 12. September 2014
Book
Hardback
374 pages
978-0-415-73112-6 (ISBN)
Description
This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brings together the key texts of language variation and change to provide a comprehensive collection that represents the field's development and showcases the diverse communities that have been the subjects of investigation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-73112-6 (9780415731126)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
University of California, Davis, USA
University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Content
Volume IV Internal and External Constraints: Internal constraints 44 The development of a morphological class 45 A grammatical continuum for (ING) 46 Remarks on grammatical weight 47 Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature Part 18 Gender and sexuality 48 Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich 49 The whole woman: sex and gender differences in variation 50 Aging and gendering 51 Phonation type as a stylistic variable: the use of falsetto in constructing a persona Part 19 Class, networks and speech communities, and communities of practice 52 Toward a theory of social dialect variation 53 Modeling socioeconomic class in variationist sociolinguistics 54 Social network and social class: toward an integrated sociolinguistic model 55 Modeling the speech community: confguration and variable types in the Mexican Spanish setting 56 Three waves of variation study: the emergence of meaning in the study of sociolinguistic variation Part 20 Ethnicity 57 Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact 58 Ethnicity as a sociolinguistic boundary 59 Ethnolinguistic repertoire: shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity.