Code-switching--the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers--does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker, but results from complex language skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are as varied as the directions from which linguists approach this issue. This volume of essays by leading scholars explores code-switching in particular social and institutional contexts, and brings together current research into the social, grammatical and psycholinguistic issues raised by this highly significant form of speech behavior.
Code-switching--the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers--does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speake...
First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition incorporates an extensive new chapter reappraising the original research and discussing other sociolinguistic work in the same paradigm.
First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition inco...
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...
Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology while recogniz...
Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of language use. Lesley Milroy is concerned with the manner in which patterns of linguisitic variation characterize particular groups (social and cultural, geographic, male and female) within a complex urban community.
Social networks -- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed -- are distinguished by their own patters of ...
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.This seminal text is here reissued with a new preface and a new final chapter looking at the histories created over some centuries for English, considering the scholarly activity itself as ideologically loaded.
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.This seminal text is here reissue...
While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the variation in grammar that exists within the British Isles today. In addressing this problem, Real English brings together the work of a number of experts on the subject to provide a pioneer volume in the field of the grammar of spoken English.
While it is accepted that the pronunciation of English shows wide regional differences, there is a marked tendency to under-estimate the extent of the...
