Sociolinguistics in England

ISBN-13: 9781137562876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 398 str.

Natalie Braber; Sandra Jansen

Opis

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics on different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across the country.

Recenzje

"Sociolinguistics in England is welcomed in the world of academia. ... It is essential for a book such as this to take the audience from the beginning of the field to the future directions for research, and it is noteworthy that it has been able to achieve that and more." (Prashneel Ravisan Goundar, Language in Society, Vol. 49 (3), 2020)

"As a scholar who teaches and researches English in an international setting, this volume was a welcome addition to the available resources, offering up-close and contemporary insight into the language I am supposed to be an expert on. The contributions to this volume offer precisely the sort of description that help us keep a fresh perspective on this rich language, especially in its region of initial incubation." (Elizabeth Peterson, Cercles, cercles.com, March, 2019)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction; Sandra Jansen and Natalie Braber

Chapter 2. Urban literacies and processes of supralocalisation: a historical sociolinguistic perspective; Anita Auer

Chapter 3. Social change, linguistic change and sociolinguistic change in Received Pronunciation; Anne Fabricius

Chapter 4. The changing language of urban youth: a pilot study; Rob Drummond

Chapter 5. Stylisation and the dynamics of migration, ethnicity and class; Ben Rampton

Chapter 6. The perceptual dialectology of England; Chris Montgomery

Chapter 7. Variation and change in British Sign Language in England; Adam Schembri, Rose Stamp, Jordan Fenlon and Kearsy Cormier

Chapter 8. Language change and innovation in London: Multicultural London English; Sue Fox and Eivind Torgersen

Chapter 9. The effect of economic trajectory and speaker profile on life-span change: Evidence from stative possessives on Tyneside; Isabelle Buchstaller and Adam Mearns

Chapter 10. Pit talk in the East Midlands; Natalie Braber 

Chapter 11. Studying intonation in varieties of English: Gender and individual variation in Liverpool; Claire Nance, Sam Kirkham, Eve Groarke

Chapter 12. Peripheral communities and innovation. Changes in the GOOSE vowel in a West Cumbrian town; Sandra Jansen

Chapter 13. ‘Doing Cornishness’ in the English periphery: Embodying ideology through Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis; Rhys J. Sandow and Justyna A. Robinson

Chapter 14. Residual rhoticity and emergent r-sandhi in the north-west and south-west of England: Different approaches to hiatus-resolution?; William Barras

O autorze

Natalie Braber is Reader in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests include language variation and identity in the East Midlands, perceptions of language in the region and studies around ‘pit talk’, language used by coal miners. She has published widely  on language variation in the East Midlands.

Sandra Jansen is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Her research focuses on language variation and change, with a specific interest in Cumbrian dialects and L2 varieties of English. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on language changes in the far north-west of England.

Blurb

This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics  on different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across the country. Allowing the reader to engage with contemporary research in the field, each chapter is unique in the topic or geographical area explored. Topics include historical sociolinguistics, British Sign Language, lexical variation, life-span change, and variation and innovation in urban and peripheral areas; while the regions covered range from Cornwall to West Cumbria. Edited and authored by a range of international scholars, this is sure to be a key research resource for students and scholars interested in language use in England. 

Natalie Braber is Reader in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests include language variation and identity in the East Midlands, perceptions of language in the region and studies around ‘pit talk’, language used by coal miners. Natalie has published widely  on language variation in the East Midlands.

Sandra Jansen is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Her research focuses on language variation and change, with a specific interest in Cumbrian dialects and L2 varieties of English. Sandra has published several journal articles and book chapters on language changes in the far north-west of England.