Quantitative Methods in Sociolinguistics

ISBN-13: 9780230579187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str.

Macaulay

Opis

The ways in which data is collected, coded and analyzed provide the basis for trusting the conclusions reached in any sociolinguistic study. This detailed textbook critically examines methods used in quantitative sociolinguistic studies, including the ways in which the major social categories of age, gender, ethnicity and social class have been employed to chart language variation.

Spis treści

Foreword.- Preface.- Social Categories.- The Nature of Data.- Collecting Data.- Tabulating the Results.- Methods of Analysis.- Some Individual Studies.- Variation in Discourse Features.- Afterword.- Appendix.- References.- Index.

O autorze

RONALD MACAULAY K. S. is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College, USA. He is the author of Language, Social Class and Education (1997), Locating Dialect in Discourse (1991), Standards and Variation in Urban Speech (1997), Talk that Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse (2005), Extremely Common Eloquence (2005) and The Social Art (2006).