
Talk that Counts
Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse
Ronald K. S. Macaulay(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 10. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-19-517382-6 (ISBN)
Description
In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Rinals Macaulay provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Linguists traditionally take a limited sample of linguistic data from a given population and look at phonological and morphological variables. Macaulay proposes a much different and highly quantitative approach to the study of variation, which correlates features of discourse with three social categories: social class, gender, and age. He uses as data a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, and his conclusions indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of differences, followed by gender, with social class accounting for the most variation within a group. Macaulay's work offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others like sociologists concerned with discourse analysis.
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Overall, this is a book to which I will return again and again. It provides us with a wealth of data, a model for future research, and a basis for future theory building. * Linguist List 16.1592 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous line illustrations, graphs and tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-517382-6 (9780195173826)
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Person
Ronald K. S. Macaulay is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College. He is the author of Language, Social Class and Education (1977), Locating Dialect in Discourse (1991), The Social Art (1995), and Standards and Variation in Urban Speech (1997).
Author
Emeritus Professor of LinguisticsEmeritus Professor of Linguistics, Pitzer College