This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population.

This book provides detailed studies in one of the fastest growing areas of linguistics - corpus analysis - and shows how computers can be used to reveal culturally significant patterns of language use.

Since it was first published in 1989, Suzanne Romaine's book has been recognized as the most authoritative introduction to the sociolinguistics of bilingualism. The new edition has been completely revised to incorporate recent work in this fast developing field.

Throughout the book, bilingualism is seen as both a societal and cognitive phenomenon. Professor Romaine explores various aspects of bilingual behavior, such as code switching and language mixing, in terms of neurolinguistic organization in the individual speaker. The author also assesses the positive and negative claims...

In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over "Ebonics," this book brings together sixteen essays on the subject by a leading expert in the field, one who has been researching and writing on it for a quarter of a century.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved.

• Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact linguistics.
  
• Examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.
  
• Offers an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change.
  
• Discusses the general processes and principles that are at work in cases of contact.
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved.

• Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact linguistics.
  
• Examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.
  
• Offers an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change.
  
• Discusses the general processes and principles that are at work in cases of contact.
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Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume explores an alternative hypothesis: that the characteristic features were acquired from the varieties of English to which early speakers were exposed.

This provocative volume investigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics.

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology while recognizing that methodological decisions can never be separated from questions of theory.

• Presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology.
  
• Considers a range of issues including speaker selection, data collection, social considerations, phonological and syntactical variation, style-shifting and code-switching.
  
• Recognizes that methodological decisions can...

The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures.

• Presents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others and surveys the most important findings and applications of their work.
  
• Draws on insights from social anthropology and psycholinguistics in investigating the patterning of communicative behavior in specific cultural settings.
  
• Includes two completely new chapters on...