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1 online resource (xvi, 341 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Style" as distinctiveness : the culture and ideology of linguistic differentiation / Judith T. Irvine -- Variety, style-shifting, and ideology / Susan Ervin-Tripp -- The ethnography of genre in a Mexican market : form, function, variation / Richard Bauman -- The question of genre / Ronald Macaulay -- The anatomy of style-shifting / William Labov -- A dissection of style-shifting / John Baugh -- Style and social meaning / Penelope Eckert -- Zeroing in on multifunctionality and style / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Back in style : reworking audience design / Allan Bell -- Primitives of a system for "style" and "register" / Malcah Yaeger-Dror -- Language, situation, and the relational self : theorizing dialect-style in sociolinguistics / Nikolas Coupland -- Couplandia and beyond / Howard Giles -- Style and stylizing from the perspective of a non-autonomous sociolinguistics / John R. Rickford -- Register variation and social dialect variation : the Register Axiom / Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber -- Conversation, spoken language, and social identity / Lesley Milroy -- Style and the psycholinguistics of sociolinguistics : the logical problem of language variation / Dennis R. Preston. |
| Summary |
This volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. Beginning with an introduction to theoretical issues, the book goes on to discuss key approaches to stylistic variation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Variation.
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Language and languages -- Variation. |
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Language and languages -- Style.
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Language and languages -- Style. |
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Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis. |
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Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Eckert, Penelope.
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Rickford, John R., 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Style and sociolinguistic variation. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©2001 0521591910 0521597897 (DLC) 00068947 (OCoLC)45620868 |
| ISBN |
0511065884 (electronic book) |
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9780511065880 (electronic book) |
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9780511068010 (electronic book) |
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0511068018 (electronic book) |
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9780511613258 (electronic book) |
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0511613253 (electronic book) |
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0511325320 |
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9780511325328 |
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0511059574 |
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9780511059575 |
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9780521591911 |
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0521591910 |
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0521597897 (paperback) |
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9780521597890 |
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