Talk that Counts [electronic resource] : Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse
Macaulay, Ronald K. S.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
Here the author provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Using a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, he offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others concerned with discourse analysis.
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Contents; 1. Discourse Variation; 2. Methodology; 3. The Sample; 4. Social Class; 5. Decoding Bernstein; 6. Talk in Action; 7. Some Common Discourse Features; 8. Syntactic Variation; 9. Modals and Modality; 10. Adverbs and Social Class; 11. Articles and Pronouns; 12. The Use of Dialogue in Narratives; 13. Results of Quantitative Measures; 14. Discourse Styles; 15. Discourse Sociolinguistics; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Here the author provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Using a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, he offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others concerned with discourse analysis.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Discourse analysis.
English language -- Discourse analysis.
Scots language -- Dialects -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Scots language -- Social aspects -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Scots language -- Spoken Scots -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Scots language -- Variation -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Speech and social status -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Urban dialects -- Scotland -- Glasgow.
Scots language
Scots language
Scots language
Scots language
Speech and social status
English language
Urban dialects
Discourse analysis
Sociolinguistics
English
Languages & Literatures
English Language