The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415469562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 584 str.

Miriam Meyerhoff;Eric Schleef

Opis

Intended to be user-friendly, this reader includes substantial section introductions, annotated further reading, a reader's guide on how to use the book, and a chapter providing advice on how to undertake qualitative and quantitative research. It is supplemented by exercises focusing on data handling and collection.

O autorze

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work investigates language variation and the interplay between language and social identities, using qualitative and quantitative methods. She is author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, and co-editor of the Handbook of Language and Gender, as well as Social Lives in Language and the Creole Language Library.

Erik Schleef is Lecturer in English Sociolinguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests include language variation and change, language and gender and language acquisition in immigrant contexts. He has lived and taught in the US, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland.