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Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics /

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also comple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker, Paul, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Edinburgh sociolinguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also complement qualitative traditions of enquiry such as interactional sociolinguistics. This text covers a range of different topics within sociolinguistics:*Analysing demographic variation*Comparing language use across different cultures*Examining language change over time*Studying transcripts of spoken inte.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780748631469
0748631461