The Sociolinguistics Reader - Volume 2: Gender and Discourse

The Sociolinguistics Reader presents a state-of-the-art account of the discipline in the closing years of the twentieth century.

Volume 2: Gender and Discourse in the first section looks at patterns of language variation, examining how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behaviour. Section II, meanwhile, examines the sociolinguistic issues surrounding discourse, with reference to the communication of affective meaning, conversational routines, grammaticalisation and language change, intertextuality, cross-cultural discourse patterns and their social implications.

List of contents

Introduction
Discourse.

About the author

Peter Trudgill, Honorary Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia, UK
Jenny Cheshire, Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Summary

An examination of the relationship between language and discourse. It discusses issues such as how gender identities are accomplished through language, the importance of gender in accounting for language behaviour, and the sociolinguistic issues surrounding discourse.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jenny Cheshire (Editor), Cheshire Jenny (Editor), Peter Trudgill (Editor), Trudgill Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.12.1997
• EAN: 9780340699997
• ISBN: 978-0-340-69999-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc