Variationist Sociolinguistics

ISBN-13: 9781405135917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str.

Sali A Tagliamonte

Opis

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive, intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of sociolinguistics concerned with linguistic variation in spoken and written language.

• Represents the most up-to-date coverage of the history, developments, and methodologies of variationist sociolinguistics
• Addresses all aspects of linguistic variation, including areas not usually covered in introductory texts, e.g. the phonological, morpho-syntactic, discourse/pragmatic
• Outlines comparative sociolinguistic approach, data collection, methodological issues; and addresses state-of-the-art contemporary quantitative methods and statistical practice
• Features cutting-edge research at an appropriate level to facilitate student learning
• Engages students throughout with a variety of pedagogical features, including Mini Quizzes to test comprehension, extensive Exercises at the end of each chapter, the opportunity to do hands-on quantitative analysis of a never-before published data set, and Notes and Tips that offer insight into conducting sociolinguistic research. Extra materials and answers to the exercises are available at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte

Recenzje

The author′s aims of introducing the field of LVC to learners, discussing its principle goals and achievements, and opening up discussion for advances in the field have been successfully achieved in this volume.   (LINGUIST, 16 May 2012)

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Spis treści

Acknowledgments x

Foreword xii

Series Editor s Preface xiii

Preface xiv

List of Figures xvii

List of Tables xx

1 Sociolinguistics as Language Variation and Change 1

Sociolinguistics 1

The Linguistic Variable 3

Linguistic Change 8

The Principle of Accountability 9

Circumscribing the Variable Context 10

Evolution of the Linguistic Variable 15

The Importance of Accountability 19

Language Variation and Change and Linguistic Theory 21

Exercises 22

2 Social Patterns 25

Social Class 25

Sex (or Gender) 32

Style and Register 34

Mobility in Space and Mobility in Class 35

Social Network, Communities of Practice 36

Ethnicity and Culture 38

The Mass Media 41

Age 43

Types of Change 56

Principles of Linguistic Change 62

Summary 65

Exercises 66

3 Linguistic Patterns 71

Sound Change 74

Morphological Change 76

Syntactic Change 80

Semantic Change 84

Grammaticalization 87

Lexical Effects 91

Exemplar Theory 94

Exercises 97

4 Data and Method 100

The Speech Community 100

Corpus Building 101

Creating Sociolinguistic Corpora 102

The Individual and the Group 108

Constructing an LVC Study 110

Research Ethics 115

The Gold Your Data 116

The Real World 117

5 Quantitative Analysis 120

The Quantitative Paradigm 120

Distributional Analysis 121

Statistical Modeling 121

The Three Lines of Evidence 122

The Case Study Variable (that) 124

Goldvarb Logistic Regression 126

Challenging the Variable Rule Program 129

Drawbacks to the Variable Rule Program 137

New Toolkits for Variationist Sociolinguistics 138

Summary 156

Exercises 157

6 Comparative Sociolinguistics 162

Comparison 162

The Comparative Method 163

Comparison in Origins 165

Comparison in Language Contact 166

Standards for Comparison 167

Variable (did) 168

Exercises 173

7 Phonological Variables 177

Variable (t,d) 179

Variable (ing) 187

Tips for Studying Phonological Variables 195

Exercises 203

8 Morpho–Syntactic Variables 206

Verbal (s) 207

Adverb (ly) 217

Modal (have to) 228

Studying Morpho–Syntactic Variables 235

Exercises 241

9 Discourse/Pragmatic Features 247

Quotative (be like) 247

General Extenders 258

Studying the Discourse/Pragmatic Variable 269

Exercises 277

10 Tense/Aspect Variables 279

Grammaticalization and Tense/Aspect Variables 280

Future (going to) 281

Perfect (have) 296

Studying Tense/Aspect Variables 308

Exercises 311

11 Other Variables 314

Variable (come) 315

Variable (Intensifi ers) 320

Language and the Internet 336

Studying Unusual Variables 342

Exercises 345

12 Sociolinguistic Explanations 349

What Are the Constraints on Change? 349

How Does Language Change? 350

How Is a Change Embedded in Social and Linguistic Systems? 350

Evaluation of a Change 351

Statistical Modeling 353

Traditional Explanations 354

The Principle of Interaction 355

Appendix A: Corpora Cited 358

Appendix B: Time Periods in the History of English 359

References 360

Subject Index 392

Index of Linguistic Variables 400

O autorze

Sali A. T agliamonte is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is author of Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (2006), co–author of African American English in the Diaspora: Tense and Aspect (Wiley–Blackwell, 2001), and has published on African American varieties; British, Irish, and Canadian dialects; as well as child, teen, television, and Internet languages.

Blurb

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of systematic variation in language, both present and past.  Tagliamonte, a leading and influential scholar in the field, provides a broad introduction to the foundational theory of Language Variation and Change, by synthesizing many of the early observations and findings that have shaped the field. She not only discusses the classic work of scholars including Labov, Trudgill, Milroy, and Wolfram, but she also advances the current discussion and debate in the field by highlighting contemporary work, including cutting–edge research that opens yet more questions for future scholars.

The textbook, aimed at students taking intermediate and advanced courses in sociolinguistics, outlines the methodologies of research and data collection in the field, with explanations that go beyond the facts and into the philosophy of the field. The work is set in the context of all aspects of linguistic variation, including phonological, morpho–syntactic, and discourse–pragmatic variables. The text engages students throughout with a variety of pedagogical features, including Mini Quizzes to test comprehension, extensive Exercises at the end of each chapter, the opportunity to do hands–on quantitative analysis of a never–before published data set, and Notes and Tips that offer insight into conducting sociolinguistic research. Extra materials and answers to the exercises are available at www.wiley.com/go/tagliamonte. The first real textbook of its kind, Variationist Sociolinguistics is an ambitious and exciting work that will be a must–have for students and researchers alike.