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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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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.