Corpus and sociolinguistics
Subtitle: investigating age and gender in female talk
By: Bróna Murphy.
Series: Studies in corpus linguistics -- v. 38
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027223128; 9789027288615
Subjects: Women -- Language; Language and languages -- Sex differences; Language and languages -- Age differences; English language -- Age differences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Age as a sociolinguistic variable; title: Contextualising age-related research; title: How to build and use a corpus for age-related research; title: Hedging; title: Vague category markers; title: Amplifiers; title: Boosters; title: Taboo language.