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Corpus and sociolinguistics : investigating age and gender in female talk /

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, Bróna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 38.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Age as a sociolinguistic variable
  • Contextualising age-related research
  • How to build and use a corpus for age-related research
  • Hedging
  • Vague category markers
  • Amplifiers
  • Boosters
  • Taboo language.