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Zusatztext The...handbook benefits from the fact that all of the authors are outstanding scholars who are extremely well known in their respective areas of expertise... [G]raduate students who are interested in sociolinguistic studies are most likely to benefit from reading this handbook in its entirety, because the editors have taken great care to account for a combination of theoretical and practical insights regarding studies of language in social contexts. Informationen zum Autor ROBERT BAYLEY is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. He has conducted research on variation in English, Spanish, Chinese, ASL, and Italian Sign Language as well as studies of language socialization in U.S. Latino communities. His publications include Language as Cultural Practice (with Sandra R. Schecter, 2002), and Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications (with Ceil Lucas, 2007).RICHARD CAMERON is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published on Puerto Rican Spanish, Chicago English, age, gender, medical discourse, and sociolinguistic theory. A recently edited book is Spanish in Context (with Kim Potowski, 2007).CEIL LUCAS is Professor of Linguistics at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Her recent publications include Language and the Law in Deaf Communities (2003), The Linguistics of American Sign Language, 5th ed. (with Clayton Valli et al., 2011), and The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (with Carolyn McCaskill, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill, 2011). Klappentext This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research. Zusammenfassung This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Contributors List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas Part I. Disciplinary Perspectives 1. Variationist Sociolinguistics Robert Bayley 2. Linguistic Anthropology Janet Shibamotoe-Smith and Vineeta Chand 3. Doers and Makers: The Interwoven Stories of Sociology and the Study of Language Christopher McAll 4. Critical Discourse Analysis Martin Reisigl 5. Conversation Analysis Paul Seedhouse 6. The Intersections of Language Socialization and Sociolinguistics Karen Watson-Gegeo and Matthew C. Bronson 7. Psycholinguistic Approaches Brandon C. Loudermilk 8. Interdisciplinary Approaches Christine Mallinson and Tyler Kendall Part II. Methodologies and Approaches 9. Studies of the Community and the Individual James A. Walker and Miriam Meyerhoff 10. Experimental Methods for Measuring Intelligibility of Closely Related Language Varieties Charlotte Gooskens 11. Quantitative Analysis Kyle Gorman and Daniel Ezra Johnson 12. Analyzing Qualitative Data: Mapping the Research Trajectory in Multilingual Contexts Juliet Langman 13. Longitudinal Studies Gillian Sankoff 14. Methods for Studying Sign Languages Ceil Lucas Part III. Bilingualism and Language Contact 15. Pidgins and Creoles Eric Russell Webb 16. Language Maintenance and Shift Kim Potowski 17. Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition Martin Howard, Raymond Mougeon, and Jean-Marc Dewaele 18. Codeswitching Li Wei 19. Sign Language Contact David Quinto-Pozos and Robert Adam Part IV. Variation 20. Sociophonetics Maciej Baranowski 21. Phonology and Sociolinguistics Naomi Nagy 22. Morphosyntactic Variation Ruth King 23. Pragmatics and Sociolinguistic Variation Richard Cameron and Scott Schwenter 24. Variatio...
