The sociolinguistics reader
By: edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Erik Schleef.
Contributors: Meyerhoff, Miriam.; Schleef, Erik, 1971-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780415469562; 9780415469579
Subjects: Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: User guide to the sociolinguistics reader; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: 1. Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation / Erik Schleef and Miriam Meyerhoff; title: PART I. IDENTITIES, STYLE AND POLITENESS: 2. BACK IN STYLE: REWORKING AUDIENCE DESIGN / Allan Bell; title: 3. OPRAH AND /AY/: LEXICAL FREQUENCY, REFEREE DESIGN, AND STYLE / Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy and Norma Mendoza-Denton; title: 4. A CHINESE YUPPIE IN BEIJING: PHONOLOGICAL VARIATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY / Qing Zhang; title: 5. LINGUISTIC ROUTINES AND POLITENESS IN GREETING AND PARTING / John Laver; title: 6. FORMAL FORMS AND DISCERNMENT: TWO NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF UNIVERSALS OF LINGUISTIC POLITENESS / Sachiko Ide; title: PART II. PERCEPTIONS AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDES: 7. LANGUAGE WITH AN ATTITUDE / Dennis Preston; title: 8. THE LI'L ABNER SYNDROME: WRITTEN REPRESENTATIONS OF SPEECH / Dennis Preston; title: 9. PERCEPTUAL AND PHONETIC EXPERIMENTS ON AMERICAN ENGLISH DIALECT IDENTIFICATION / Thomas Purnell, William Idsardi and John Baugh; title: 10. LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICY AND THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION ISSUE IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA / Gibson Ferguson; title: 11. SOCIAL STEREOTYPES, PERSONALITY TRAITS AND REGIONAL PERCEPTIONS DISPLACED: ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE NEW QUOTATIVE IN THE UK / Isabelle Buchstaller; title: PART III. MULTILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE CONTACT: 12. BILINGUALISM IN PARAGUAY: FORTY YEARS AFTER RUBIN'S STUDY / Jinny K. Choi; title: 13. CODE-SWITCHING IN GAPUN: SOCIAL AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE USE IN A LANGUAGE SHIFTING COMMUNITY / Don Kulick and Christopher Stroud; title: 14. SOCIAL MEANING IN LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE: CODESWITCHING IN NORWAY / Jan-Peter Blom and John Gumperz; title: 15. DIALECT CONTACT, FOCUSING AND PHONOLOGICAL RULE COMPLEXITY: THE KOINEISATION OF FENLAND ENGLISH / David Britain; title: 16. LEGITIMATE LANGUAGE IN A MULTILINGUAL SCHOOL / Monica Heller; title: 17. LANGUAGE CROSSING AND THE REDEFINITION OF REALITY / Ben Rampton; title: 18. THE GLOBALIZATION OF VERNACULAR VARIATION / Miriam Meyerhoff and Nancy Niedzielski; title: PART IV. VARIATION AND CHANGE: 19. THE SOCIAL MOTIVATION OF A SOUND CHANGE / William Labov; title: 20. WELL WEIRD, RIGHT DODGY, VERY STRANGE, REALLY COOL: LAYERING AND RECYCLING IN ENGLISH INTENSIFIERS / Rika Ito and Sali Tagliamonte; title: 21. LANGUAGE CHANGE ACROSS THE LIFESPAN: /R/ IN MONTREAL FRENCH / Gillian Sankoff and Hélène Blondeau; title: 22. NORWICH REVISITED: RECENT LINGUISTIC CHANGES IN AN ENGLISH; title: Urban dialect / Peter Trudgill; title: 23. AGING AND GENDERING / Richard Cameron; title: PART V. SOCIAL CLASS, NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: 24. SOCIAL NETWORK AND SOCIAL CLASS: TOWARD AN INTEGRATED SOCIOLINGUISTIC MODEL / Lesley Milroy and James Milroy; title: 25. MOBILITY VERSUS SOCIAL CLASS IN DIALECT LEVELLING: EVIDENCE FROM NEW AND OLD TOWNS IN ENGLAND / Paul Kerswill and Ann Williams; title: 26. MAKING THE BEST OF 'BAD' DATA / Terttu Nevalainen; title: 27. VOWELS AND NAIL POLISH: THE EMERGENCE OF LINGUISTIC STYLE IN THE PREADOLESCENT HETEROSEXUAL MARKETPLACE / Penelope Eckert; title: 28. 'DOING FEMININITY' AT WORK: MORE THAN JUST RELATIONAL PRACTICE / Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr; title: PART VI. GENDER: 29. A LINGUISTIC INNOVATION OF WOMEN IN CAIRO / Niloofar Haeri; title: 30. INDEXING GENDER / Elinor Ochs; title: 31. POWER AND THE LANGUAGE OF MEN / Scott Fabius Kiesling; title: 32. MARKEDNESS AND STYLE-SWITCHING IN PERFORMANCES BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN DRAG QUEENS / Rusty Barrett; title: NOTES ON CONCEPT QUESTIONS; title: Index.