Peter Stockwell

Sociolinguistics

A Resource Book for Students

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sociolinguistics: provides a comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics draws on a range of real texts, from an interview with Madonna to the Japanese Asahi Evening News uses real studies designed and conducted by students provides key readings with commentaries from works by major internationally known authors such as Norman Fairclough, Deborah Cameron, Braj Kachru, Jennifer Coates, Mark Sebba, and Malcolm Coulthard is accompanied by a supporting website. New to this edition: an entire new section on forensic linguistics additional material on language and gender, conversation analysis and spoken discourse comprehensively updated exercises, readings and references. The accompanying website to this book can be found at: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415401272.

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This updated edition of Sociolinguistics provides a comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics drawing on a range of real texts and using real studies designed and conducted by students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 182mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780415401265
• ISBN-10: 0415401267
• Artikelnr.: 21095855

Autorenporträt

Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and the author of many books and academic articles in the fields of literature and language, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, language and cognition, surrealism and literary theory. Peter is the editor of the Routledge English Language Introductions series.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction: Key Concepts in Sociolinguistics 1. A Sociolinguistic
Toolkit 2. Accent and Dialect 3. Register and Style 4. Ethnicity and
Multilingualism 5. Variation and Change 6. Standardisation 7. Gender 8.
Pidgins and Creoles 9. New, National and International Englishes 10.
Politeness and Accommodation 11. Conversation 12. Applying Sociolinguistics
Part 2: Development: Studies in Language and Society 1. Undertaking a
Sociolinguistic Study 2. Attitudes to Accent Variation 3. Euphemism,
Register and Code 4. Code-Switching 5. Social Networks 6. Shifts in
Prestige 7. Genderlects 8. Patwa and Post-Creolisation 9. Singlish and New
Englishes 10. Politeness in Mixed-Sex Conversation 11. Phatics in Spoken
Discourse 12. Language and Ideology Part 3: Exploration: Data for
Investigation 1. Collecting and Exploring Data 2. Dialectal Variation 3.
Register 4. Ethnology 5. Perceptions of Variation 6. Prestige 7. Gender 8.
Creole 9. New English 10. Politeness 11. E-Discourse 12. Critical Discourse
Analysis Part 4: Extension 1. Sociolinguistics and Language Change 2.
Foreign Accents in America 3. Style and Ideology 4. Language Contact and
Code-Switching 5. The Sociolinguist's Responsibility 6. The Process of
Standardisation 7. Men's Language 8. The Origins of Pidgins and Creoles 9.
World Englishes and Contact Literature 10. The Politics of Talk 11. Closing
Turns 12. Linguistic Detection. Further Reading. References. Glossarial
Index