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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

Hardback

Main Details

Title Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Penelope Eckert
Edited by John R. Rickford
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:360
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 157
Category/GenreSociolinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9780521591911
ClassificationsDewey:306.44
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 26 Tables, unspecified; 10 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 January 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a great deal about speakers' strategies with respect to variables such as social class, gender, ethnicity and age, it also affords us the opportunity to observe linguistic change in progress. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation. Beginning with an introduction to theoretical issues, the book goes on to discuss key approaches to stylistic variation in spoken language, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.

Reviews

'... thought-provoking and frustrating in the way a book should be if it is to push the field forward. the editors deserve our gratitude for organizing it and seeing it through.' Journal of Sociolinguistics