Talk that counts : age, gender, and social class differences in discourse / Ronald K.S. Macaulay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scots language--Social aspects--Scotland--Glasgow.

Scots language.

Scots language--Spoken Scots--Scotland--Glasgow.

Scots language--Variation--Scotland--Glasgow.

Scots language--Dialects--Scotland--Glasgow.

Speech and social status--Scotland--Glasgow.

Speech and social status.

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Urban dialects--Scotland--Glasgow.

Urban dialects.

Discourse analysis.

Sociolinguistics.

Glasgow (Scotland)--Social conditions.

Glasgow (Scotland).

Glasgow (Scotland)--Languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here the author provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Using a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, he offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others concerned with discourse analysis.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Discourse Variation; 2. Methodology; 3. The Sample; 4. Social Class; 5. Decoding Bernstein; 6. Talk in Action; 7. Some Common Discourse Features; 8. Syntactic Variation; 9. Modals and Modality; 10. Adverbs and Social Class; 11. Articles and Pronouns; 12. The Use of Dialogue in Narratives; 13. Results of Quantitative Measures; 14. Discourse Styles; 15. Discourse Sociolinguistics; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

9786610428175

0-19-803875-5

1-280-42817-1

1-4237-5648-7

1-60256-509-0

OCLC:

64584075