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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
By Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford
356 pages
- Contributors:
- Includes content by:
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John R. Rickford
Penelope Eckert
Susan Ervin-Tripp
Richard Bauman
Ronald Macaulay
William Labov
John Baugh
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Allan Bell
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
John R. RickfordShow more
Penelope Eckert
Susan Ervin-Tripp
Richard Bauman
Ronald Macaulay
William Labov
John Baugh
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Allan Bell
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
Nikolas Coupland
Howard Giles
Edward Finegan
Douglas Biber
Lesley Milroy
Dennis R. Preston
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, England
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Subjects:
Synopsis
The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, 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 ...
The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, 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.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Figures ix
- Tables xi
- Contributors xiii
- Acknowledgments xvi
- Introduction 1
- Part 1 - Anthropological Approaches 19
- 1 - Styleas Distinctiveness: the Culture and Ideology of Linguistic Differentiation 21
- 2 - Variety, Style-Shifting, and Ideology 44
- 3 - The Ethnography of Genre in a Mexican Market: Form, Function, Variation 57
- 4 - The Question of Genre 78
- Part 2 - Attention Paid to Speech 83
- 5 - The Anatomy of Style-Shifting 85
- 6 - A Dissection of Style-Shifting 109
- 7 - Style and Social Meaning 119
- Title Page *
- Contents vii
- Figures ix
- Tables xi
- Contributors xiii
- Acknowledgments xvi
- Introduction 1
- Part 1 - Anthropological Approaches 19
- 1 - Styleas Distinctiveness: the Culture and Ideology of Linguistic Differentiation 21
- 2 - Variety, Style-Shifting, and Ideology 44
- 3 - The Ethnography of Genre in a Mexican Market: Form, Function, Variation 57
- 4 - The Question of Genre 78
- Part 2 - Attention Paid to Speech 83
- 5 - The Anatomy of Style-Shifting 85
- 6 - A Dissection of Style-Shifting 109
- 7 - Style and Social Meaning 119
- 8 - Zeroing in on Multi Functionality and Style 127
- Part 3 - Audience Design and Self-Identification 137
- 9 - Back in Style: Reworking Audience Design 139
- 10 - Primitives of a System for “style”and “register” 170
- 11 - Language, Situation, and the Relational Self: Theorizing Dialect-Style in Sociolinguistics 185
- 12 - Couplandia and Beyond 211
- 13 - Style and Stylizing from the Perspective of a Non-Autonomous Sociolinguistics 220
- Part 4 - Functionally Motivated Situational Variation 233
- 14 - Register Variation and Social Dialect Variation: the Register Axiom 235
- 15 - Conversation, Spoken Language, and Social Identity 268
- 16 - Style and the Psycholinguistics of Sociolinguistics: the Logical Problem of Language Variation 279
- References 305
- Index 338