Linguistic Variation and Change / / Scott F. Kiesling.
The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and linguistic perception. By considering both structure...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Sociolinguistics : EDSO
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 55 B/W illustrations 55 black and white figures, mainly charts and graphs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Terminology and notation conventions
- Phonetic notation
- Part I: Questions and method
- 1 Questions about language and variation, and where we got them
- 2 The linguistic variable
- 3 Discovering and describing patterns of variation and change
- Part II: Variation and social relationships
- Introduction to Part II
- 4 Social patterns I: interspeaker variation
- 5 Social patterns II: intraspeaker variation
- 6 Meaning and social patterns
- 7 Acquisition of variation
- Part III: Variation, change, and linguistic structure
- Introduction to Part III
- 8 Structural patterns I: phonology and morphology
- 9 Structural patterns II: syntax, lexical variables, and suprasegmentals
- Part IV: Conclusions
- 10 The life and times of linguistic changes
- References
- Index