Sociolinguistic theory
linguistic variation and its social significance
by J. K. Chambers
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Sociolinguistic Theory brings together the most important descriptive and theoretical findings on linguistic variation and change. Incorporating the latest developments in the field along with updated references, it provides a critical synthesis of language variation, demonstrating how empirical explorations have made it among the most exciting fields in the contemporary study of language. Coverage includes discussion of the linguistic variable and its significance, crucial social variables such as social stratification, sex, and age, and the cultural significance of linguistic variation.
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Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
0470704616 9780470704615
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Sociolinguistic theory: linguistic variation and its social significance
2008, Blackwell
in English
- Rev. ed.
140515246X 9781405152464
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Sociolinguistic theory: linguistic variation and its social significance
2003, Blackwell
in English
- 2nd ed.
0631228810 9780631228813
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Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance (Language in Society)
June 1, 2002, Blackwell Publishing Limited
in English
0631228829 9780631228820
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Sociolinguistic Theory: Linguistic Variation and Its Social Significance (Language in Society)
May 2002, Blackwell Publishers
in English
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Sociolinguistic theory: linguistic variation and its social significance
1995, Blackwell
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-302) and index.
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"This book is about language variation and its social significance."
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Sociolinguistic Theory presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centering on the study of language variation and change.
Since the inception of sociolinguistics more than three decades ago, the correlation of dependent linguistic variables with independent social variables has provided the theoretical core of the discipline.
Chambers reviews the essential findings of Henrietta Cedegren, William Labov, Lesley Milroy and James Milroy, David Sankoff, Gillian Sankoff, Peter Trudgill, Walt Wolfram, and many others, and puts them into context both with the work of the numerous linguists who have followed their lead and with their intellectual forbears from Wilhelm von Humboldt and Louis Gauchat to Edward Sapir.
The book opens with a discussion of the linguistic variable and its historical methodological and theoretical significance. Three central chapters are organized around the crucial social variables of social stratification, sex, and age. The final chapter considers the social and cultural purposes of linguistic variation.
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