Variationist Sociolinguistics Change, Observation, Interpretation.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2011.
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Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change
- Sociolinguistics
- The Linguistic Variable
- Linguistic Change
- The Principle of Accountability
- Circumscribing the Variable Context
- Evolution of the Linguistic Variable
- The Importance of Accountability
- Language Variation and Change and Linguistic Theory
- Exercises
- 2 Social Patterns
- Social Class
- Sex (or Gender)
- Style and Register
- Mobility in Space and Mobility in Class
- Social Network, Communities of Practice
- Ethnicity and Culture
- The Mass Media
- Age
- Types of Change
- Principles of Linguistic Change
- Summary
- Exercises
- 3 Linguistic Patterns
- Sound Change
- Morphological Change
- Syntactic Change
- Semantic Change
- Grammaticalization
- Lexical Effects
- Exemplar Theory
- Exercises
- 4 Data and Method
- The Speech Community
- Corpus Building
- Creating Sociolinguistic Corpora
- The Individual and the Group
- Constructing an LVC Study
- Research Ethics
- The Gold
- Your Data
- The Real World
- 5 Quantitative Analysis
- The Quantitative Paradigm
- Distributional Analysis
- Statistical Modeling
- The Three Lines of Evidence
- The Case Study
- Variable (that)
- Goldvarb Logistic Regression
- Challenging the Variable Rule Program
- Drawbacks to the Variable Rule Program
- New Toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics
- Summary
- Exercises
- 6 Comparative Sociolinguistics
- Comparison
- The Comparative Method
- Comparison in Origins
- Comparison in Language Contact
- Standards for Comparison
- Variable (did)
- Exercises
- 7 Phonological Variables
- Variable (t,d)
- Variable (ing)
- Tips for Studying Phonological Variables
- Exercises
- 8 Morpho-Syntactic Variables
- Verbal (s)
- Adverb (ly)
- Modal (have to)
- Studying Morpho-Syntactic Variables
- Exercises
- 9 Discourse/Pragmatic Features
- Quotative (be like)
- General Extenders
- Studying the Discourse/Pragmatic Variable
- Exercises
- 10 Tense/Aspect Variables
- Grammaticalization and Tense/Aspect Variables
- Future (going to)
- Perfect (have)
- Studying Tense/Aspect Variables
- Exercises
- 11 Other Variables
- Variable (come)
- Variable (Intensifiers)
- Language and the Internet
- Studying Unusual Variables
- Exercises
- 12 Sociolinguistic Explanations
- What Are the Constraints on Change?
- How Does Language Change?
- How Is a Change Embedded in Social and Linguistic Systems?
- Evaluation of a Change
- Statistical Modeling
- Traditional Explanations
- The Principle of Interaction
- Appendix A: Corpora Cited
- Appendix B: Time Periods in the History of English
- References
- Subject Index
- Index of Linguistic Variables