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Informationen zum Autor Sali A. T agliamonte is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is author of Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006), co-author of African American English in the Diaspora: Tense and Aspect (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001), and has published on African American varieties; British, Irish, and Canadian dialects; as well as child, teen, television, and Internet languages. Klappentext Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language.* Represents the most up-to-date coverage of the history, developments, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics* Addresses all aspects of linguistic variation, including areas not usually covered in introductory texts, e.g. the phonological, morpho-syntactic, discourse/pragmatic* Outlines comparative sociolinguistic approach, data collection, methodological issues; and addresses state-of-the-art contemporary quantitative methods and statistical practice* Features cutting-edge research at an appropriate level to facilitate student learning* Engages students throughout with a variety of pedagogical features, including Mini Quizzes to test comprehension, extensive Exercises at the end of each chapter, the opportunity to do hands-on quantitative analysis of a never-before published data set, and Notes and Tips that offer insight into conducting sociolinguistic research. Extra materials and answers to the exercises are available at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte Zusammenfassung Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments x Foreword xii Series Editor's Preface xiii Preface xiv List of Figures xvii List of Tables xx 1 Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change 1 Sociolinguistics 1 The Linguistic Variable 3 Linguistic Change 8 The Principle of Accountability 9 Circumscribing the Variable Context 10 Evolution of the Linguistic Variable 15 The Importance of Accountability 19 Language Variation and Change and Linguistic Theory 21 Exercises 22 2 Social Patterns 25 Social Class 25 Sex (or Gender) 32 Style and Register 34 Mobility in Space and Mobility in Class 35 Social Network, Communities of Practice 36 Ethnicity and Culture 38 The Mass Media 41 Age 43 Types of Change 56 Principles of Linguistic Change 62 Summary 65 Exercises 66 3 Linguistic Patterns 71 Sound Change 74 Morphological Change 76 Syntactic Change 80 Semantic Change 84 Grammaticalization 87 Lexical Effects 91 Exemplar Theory 94 Exercises 97 4 Data and Method 100 The Speech Community 100 Corpus Building 101 Creating Sociolinguistic Corpora 102 The Individual and the Group 108 Constructing an LVC Study 110 Research Ethics 115 The Gold - Your Data 116 The Real World 117 5 Quantitative Analysis 120 The Quantitative Paradigm 120 Distributional Analysis 121 Statistical Modeling 121 The Three Lines of Evidence 122 The Case Study - Variable (that) 124 Goldvarb Logistic Regression 126 Challenging the Variable Rule Program 129 Drawbacks to the Variable Rule Program 137 New Toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics 138 Summary 156 E...
