Analysing sociolinguistic variation /

The first comprehensive 'how to' guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation (how language varies in social context). Practical and informal, it shows in a step-by-step fashion how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a sociolinguistic resear...

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Main Author: Tagliamonte, Sali
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Key topics in sociolinguistics.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on codes and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- What is variation analysis? -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Variationist sociolinguistics -- Orderly heterogeneity -- Language change -- Social identity -- Key characteristics of variationist sociolinguistics -- The 'vernacular' -- The speech community -- Form/function asymmetry -- Linguistic variables -- The quantitative method -- The principle of accountability -- Circumscribing the variable context -- Testing hypotheses -- Organisation and logic of this book -- 2 Data collection -- The basics -- Data collection -- Sampling strategies -- Random sampling -- The ethnographic approach -- Social networks -- The 'friend of a friend' -- Problems with random sampling -- Stratified random sampling -- African Nova Scotian English project -- Summary -- Designing your sample -- The sociolinguistic issue -- Sample design -- Sample stratification -- Sample size -- Fieldwork ethics -- Fieldwork techniques and strategies -- Summary -- 3 The sociolinguistic interview -- The 'interview' -- Modules -- Adapting the sociolinguistic interview -- Questioning techniques -- Wording questions -- Select appropriate questions -- Good questions -- Organise -- Retain your authority -- Interview techniques -- Let the informant talk! -- Approximate the vernacular -- Ask short questions -- Take an insider's point of view -- Be the learner -- Wisdom of informants -- Summary -- 4 Data, data and more data -- The corpus -- Components of a corpus -- Labelling -- Protocol for identification -- Data transcription -- Transcription goals -- The transcription protocol -- Orthographic conventions -- Transcription conventions -- Orthographic conventions -- False starts -- Partial words -- Pauses/silence -- Tags -- Expressions -- People, places, songs, games -- Phonological processes -- Morphological processes -- Dialect words -- Non-standard verbal morphology -- Slang, local terminology and expressions -- Data processing -- Index -- Automated extraction -- Concordance -- Digital data and beyond -- Summary -- 5 The linguistic variable -- Defining the linguistic variable -- Re-examining the definition of the linguistic variable -- Recognising the linguistic variable -- Linguistic variables as language change -- Selecting a linguistic variable for analysis -- Identify potential variables -- Variable (ing) and variable (t, d) -- Frequency -- Robustness -- Implications for (socio)linguistic issues -- Circumscription of the variable context -- Categorical, near categorical and variable contexts -- Exceptional distributions -- Asymmetrical contexts -- Formulaic utterances -- Neutralisation -- Ambiguity -- Ensuring functional equivalence -- Repetitions -- Natural speech anomalies -- Imposing an analysis -- The type-token question -- Illustrating linguistic variables -- Third person singular -- Summary -- 6 Formulating hypotheses/operationalising claims -- Data extraction. 
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