Investigating variation
Subtitle: the effects of social organization and social setting
By: Nancy C. Dorian.
Series: Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195385939; 9780195385922
Subjects: Scottish Gaelic language -- Dialects -- Scotland -- Sutherland; Scottish Gaelic language -- Variation; Scottish Gaelic language -- Social aspects; Fishers -- Scotland -- Sutherland -- Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The variation puzzle; title: The East Sutherland fishing communities; title: Dimensions of linguistic variation in a socioeconomically homogeneous population; title: General introduction to speakers and variables; title: A close look at some Embo variables and their use; title: Kin groups, peer groups, and variation; title: Speech norms, accommodation, and speaking well in Gaelic Embo; title: Socially neutral linguistic variation: where, why, what for, and how?