Style and sociolinguistic variation / edited by Penelope Eckert and John R. Rickford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckert, Penelope, editor.

Rickford, John R., 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Style.

Discourse analysis.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Style & Sociolinguistic Variation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a great deal about speakers' strategies with respect to variables such as social class, gender, ethnicity and age, it also affords us the opportunity to observe linguistic change in progress. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation. Beginning with an introduction to theoretical issues, the book goes on to discuss key approaches to stylistic variation in spoken language, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.

Contents:

"Style" as distinctiveness : the culture and ideology of linguistic differentiation / Judith T. Irvine

Variety, style-shifting, and ideology / Susan Ervin-Tripp

The ethnography of genre in a Mexican market : form, function, variation / Richard Bauman

The question of genre / Ronald Macaulay

The anatomy of style-shifting / William Labov

A dissection of style-shifting / John Baugh

Style and social meaning / Penelope Eckert

Zeroing in on multifunctionality and style / Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Back in style : reworking audience design / Allan Bell

Primitives of a system for "style" and "register" / Malcah Yaeger-Dror

Language, situation, and the relational self : theorizing dialect-style in sociolinguistics / Nikolas Coupland

Couplandia and beyond / Howard Giles

Style and stylizing from the perspective of a non-autonomous sociolinguistics / John R. Rickford

Register variation and social dialect variation : the Register Axiom / Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber

Conversation, spoken language, and social identity / Lesley Milroy

Style and the psycholinguistics of sociolinguistics : the logical problem of language variation / Dennis R. Preston.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11433-0

1-280-41719-6

1-139-14574-6

0-511-17544-2

0-511-06588-4

0-511-05957-4

0-511-32532-0

0-511-61325-3

0-511-06801-8

OCLC:

475924098