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Analysing sociolinguistic variation /
The first comprehensive 'how to' guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation (how language varies in social context). Practical and informal, it shows in a step-by-step fashion how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a sociolinguistic resear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Key topics in sociolinguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on codes and abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- What is variation analysis?
- Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Variationist sociolinguistics
- Orderly heterogeneity
- Language change
- Social identity
- Key characteristics of variationist sociolinguistics
- The 'vernacular'
- The speech community
- Form/function asymmetry
- Linguistic variables
- The quantitative method
- The principle of accountability
- Circumscribing the variable context
- Testing hypotheses
- Organisation and logic of this book
- 2 Data collection
- The basics
- Data collection
- Sampling strategies
- Random sampling
- The ethnographic approach
- Social networks
- The 'friend of a friend'
- Problems with random sampling
- Stratified random sampling
- African Nova Scotian English project
- Summary
- Designing your sample
- The sociolinguistic issue
- Sample design
- Sample stratification
- Sample size
- Fieldwork ethics
- Fieldwork techniques and strategies
- Summary
- 3 The sociolinguistic interview
- The 'interview'
- Modules
- Adapting the sociolinguistic interview
- Questioning techniques
- Wording questions
- Select appropriate questions
- Good questions
- Organise
- Retain your authority
- Interview techniques
- Let the informant talk!
- Approximate the vernacular
- Ask short questions
- Take an insider's point of view
- Be the learner
- Wisdom of informants
- Summary
- 4 Data, data and more data
- The corpus
- Components of a corpus
- Labelling
- Protocol for identification
- Data transcription
- Transcription goals
- The transcription protocol
- Orthographic conventions
- Transcription conventions
- Orthographic conventions
- False starts
- Partial words
- Pauses/silence
- Tags
- Expressions
- People, places, songs, games
- Phonological processes
- Morphological processes
- Dialect words
- Non-standard verbal morphology
- Slang, local terminology and expressions
- Data processing
- Index
- Automated extraction
- Concordance
- Digital data and beyond
- Summary
- 5 The linguistic variable
- Defining the linguistic variable
- Re-examining the definition of the linguistic variable
- Recognising the linguistic variable
- Linguistic variables as language change
- Selecting a linguistic variable for analysis
- Identify potential variables
- Variable (ing) and variable (t, d)
- Frequency
- Robustness
- Implications for (socio)linguistic issues
- Circumscription of the variable context
- Categorical, near categorical and variable contexts
- Exceptional distributions
- Asymmetrical contexts
- Formulaic utterances
- Neutralisation
- Ambiguity
- Ensuring functional equivalence
- Repetitions
- Natural speech anomalies
- Imposing an analysis
- The type-token question
- Illustrating linguistic variables
- Third person singular
- Summary
- 6 Formulating hypotheses/operationalising claims
- Data extraction.