Corpus and sociolinguistics : investigating age and gender in female talk / Bróna Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Bróna.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 38.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Language.

Women.

Language and languages--Sex differences.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Age differences.

English language--Age differences.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of high frequency pragmatic features of spoken discourse that appear as key items in the corpus. Part 1 of the book provides an introduction, a theoretical overview of age as a sociolinguistic variable and a description on how to compile a small spoken corpus for sociolinguistic research. Part 2 consists of five chapters which investigate and explore key features such as hedges, vague category markers, intensifiers, boosters and high-frequent items of taboo language in relation to the variables, age and gender. The book is of interest to undergraduates or postgraduates taking formal courses in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics or discourse analysis. It is also of interest to students and researchers interested in using corpus linguistics in sociolinguistic research.

Contents:

Age as a sociolinguistic variable

Contextualising age-related research

How to build and use a corpus for age-related research

Hedging

Vague category markers

Amplifiers

Boosters

Taboo language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558757

9781282558755

1282558757

9789027288615

9027288615

OCLC:

615600486