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Linguistic Variation and Change.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiesling, Scott F.
- Series:
- Edinburgh Sociolinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Social aspects.
- English language--Variation.
- Language and languages.
- Linguistics.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- English language--Social aspects.
- English language--Variation.
- Language and languages.
- Linguistics.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comprehensive study of variation and change, including current debates in the area.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Terminology and notation conventions; Phonetic notation; Part I: Questions and method; Chapter 1 Questions about language andvariation, and where we got them; Chapter 2 The linguistic variable; Chapter 3 Discovering and describing patterns of variation and change; Part II: Variation and social relationships; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 4 Social patterns I: interspeaker variation; Chapter 5 Social patterns II: intraspeaker variation; Chapter 6 Meaning and social patterns; Chapter 7 Acquisition of variation
- Part III: Variation, change, and linguistic structureIntroduction to Part III; Chapter 8 Structural patterns I: phonology and morphology; Chapter 9 Structural patterns II: syntax, lexical variables, and suprasegmentals; Part IV: Conclusions; Chapter 10 The life and times of linguistic changes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-13314-8
- 9786613133144
- 0-7486-3763-X
- OCLC:
- 730151831
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