Salience in Sociolinguistics - A Quantitative Approach

This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to `invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored. Taking a quantitative angle, this work sees salience as a function of relative frequency differences, giving it an empirically testable operationalisation.

About the author

Péter Rácz, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Péter Rácz
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9783110304329
• ISBN: 978-3-11-030432-9
• No. of pages: 167
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 16 mm x 239 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Topics in English Linguistics; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics