Salience in sociolinguistics : a quantitative approach /

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This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ign...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rácz, Péter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston, MA : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]
Colección:Topics in English linguistics ; 84.
Temas:
Sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries
  • Salience and linguistic Variation
  • Lexical reference and social indexation
  • Concepts and notations
  • Salience as low probability
  • Structure of the book
  • Methodology
  • Chapter structure
  • The case studies
  • Concluding remarks
  • Defining Salience
  • Salience as a general term
  • Salience in sociolinguistics
  • Salience in Visual Cognition
  • Selective attention in hearing
  • Operationalisingsociolinguistic salience
  • Preliminaries
  • Defining salience
  • Exemplars and transitional probabilities
  • Concluding remarks
  • Methodology
  • Cognitive salience : main assumptions and considerations
  • Cognitive salience : further assumptions
  • Step-by-step corpus editing
  • Calculating transitional probabilities
  • Definite Article Reduction
  • Background
  • Details of the process
  • DAR as a salient variable
  • Analysis
  • Methods
  • Salience from token frequency
  • Salience from transitional probability
  • Further arguments for phonotactic distinctiveness
  • Concluding remarks
  • Glottalisation in the South of England
  • Background
  • Two recent studies
  • Salience and glottalisation
  • Analysis
  • Methods
  • The London-Lund Corpus
  • The Spoken Corpus of Adolescent London English
  • Modelling results
  • Concluding remarks
  • Hiatus resolution in Hungarian
  • Background
  • The perception of hiatus resolution : Methods
  • The perception of hiatus resolution : Results
  • Hiatus resolution and naive linguistic awareness
  • Analysis
  • Corpus results
  • Main points
  • Concluding remarks
  • Derhoticisation in Glasgow
  • Background
  • Social stratification and social awareness
  • Derhoticisation in Glasgow
  • Irl in Glasgow
  • Studies on coda/r/
  • Interim Summary
  • Analysis
  • The FRED study
  • Transitional probabilities in coda /r/ realisation
  • Concluding remarks
  • The operationalisation and relevance of salience
  • Salience and models of the lexicon
  • The relevance of salience
  • The duality of patterning
  • Modelling, phonetic Variation and indexation
  • Summary
  • Salience and language change
  • Speaker indexation in sound change
  • Approachesto Speaker indexation
  • Simulations on the role of indexation
  • Salience in the propagation of a change
  • Glottalisation in England
  • Derhoticisation in Scotland
  • Concluding remarks
  • Conclusions
  • The source of salience
  • From cognitive properties to language use
  • Consequences for phonological modelling
  • The predictability of salience
  • Types of phonological change
  • Consonants and vowels
  • Overview
  • Concluding remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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