Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

Table of contents

• 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

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