Socio-Syntax - Exploring the Social Life of Grammar

"Challenging traditional assumptions about grammar, this book shows how language variation takes on social meaning in everyday interaction. Drawing on an ethnolinguistic study of working class high school girls, along with the author's own experience, it is essential reading for scholars and students in sociolinguistics and educational linguistics"--

List of contents

1. Why does the social meaning of grammar matter?; 2. The social landscape of Midlan High; 3. How do we study the social meaning of grammatical variation?; 4. How free are we to vary the grammar we use?; 5. How do we use grammar to design our talk?; 6. Does everyone use grammar to make social meaning?; 7. How does grammar combine with other elements of language?; 8. What does it mean to view grammar as a fluid, flexible social resource?.

About the author

Emma Moore is Professor of Sociolinguistics at The University of Sheffield. She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow in 2020-22. Recent publications include Language and a Sense of Place (co-edited with Montgomery, 2017) and Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation (co-edited with Hall-Lew and Podesva, 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Emma Moore, Emma (University of Sheffield) Moore, Moore Emma
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2023
• EAN: 9781108843973
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84397-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; EDUCATION / General, Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy