Social Markers in Speech

Originally published in 1979, this book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of social markers in speech.

List of contents

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Phonetic and linguistic markers in speech John Laver and Peter Trudgill; 2. Speech as a marker of situation Penelope Brown and Colin Fraser; 3. Age markers in speech Hede Helfrich; 4. Sex markers in speech Philip M. Smith; 5. Personality markers in speech Klaus R. Scherer; 6. Speech markers and social class W. Peter Robinson; 7. Ethnicity markers in speech Howard Giles; 8. Social structure, groups and interaction Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson; 9. Speech markers in social interaction Howard Giles, Klaus R. Scherer and Donald M. Taylor; Subject index; Author index.

Summary

This 1979 book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of social markers in speech. Each chapter explores the nature and functioning of speech markers from a different social, biological or psychological perspective, and the volume offers a systematic survey of facts and ideas concerning the remarkable wealth of information that speech can convey.

Product details

• Authors: Klaus Rainer Scherer
• Assisted by: Howard Giles (Editor), Klaus R. Scherer (Editor), Klaus Rainer Scherer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9780521295901
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29590-1
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: European Studies in Social Psy
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology