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Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England

, 2016
Preface List of Tables List of Figures Publisher's Acknowledgements 1. INTRODUCTION: ISSUES IN HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1.1 Sociolinguistics Backprojection? 1.2 Contemporary Perceptions of Usage 1.3 Sociohistorical Reconstruction 1.4 Research Topics 2.

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Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective

, 2015
Interactional sociolinguistics (IS) is an approach to discourse analysis that has its origin in the search for replicable methods of qualitative analysis that account for our ability to interpret what participants intend to convey in everyday ...
J. Gumperz
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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery: Small Languages in New Circumstances

, 2016
In Saariselkä, a centre for Lapland tourism in northern Finland, a longstanding hotel has branded its new conference facilities and accommodation block with the Northern Sámi word Gielas, which refers to the geographical location of the resort.
Sari Pietikäinen, A. Jaffe, Helen Kelly-Holmes, N. Coupland   +3 more
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

, 2011
1. Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Society and Identity 2. Identity as a Central Theme in Linguistics 3. Language Variation 4. Language Development 5. Language and Social Interaction 6. Language Ideology 7.
Sharon K. Deckert, Caroline H. Vickers
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Sociolinguistics

2017
Sociolinguistics is a multilingual collection of research methodologies with distinct objects, dissimilar agendas, and differing points of origin. Broadly, sociolinguists investigate the relationship between social context and language structure or use on the assumption that aspects of structure and use require reference to social context for their ...
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Indexicality, stance and fields in sociolinguistics

, 2016
In the recent history of the field of sociolinguistics, the concept of indexicality has been a productive lens for a central disciplinary focus on conventional/stereotypical relationships between linguistic forms and social meanings.
A. Jaffe
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Sociolinguistics and Social Theory

, 2016
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory brings together new critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action. A wide range of theoretical and methodological traditions are represented: variationist and ethnographic ...
N. Coupland, S. Sarangi, C. Candlin
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Directions in sociolinguistics;: The ethnography of communication

, 1973
Preface. Introduction: John J. Gumperz. Plan of the Book. Part I: Ethnographic Description and Explanation. 1. Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life: Dell Hymes. 2. Culture Patterning of Speech Behavior in Burundi: Ethel M. Albert.
J. Gumperz, D. Hymes
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Globalising Sociolinguistics - Challenging and Expanding Theory

, 2015
1. Introduction 2. Northern Africa 3. Western Africa 4. Eastern Africa 5. Southern Africa 6. Caucasus 7. Southern Asia 8. South-Eastern Asia 9. China 10. Japan 11. South America 12. European Mediterranean 13. Slavic Area 14. Caribbean 15.
D. Smakman, P. Heinrich
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The Sociolinguistic Interview

2013
Sociolinguistic fieldworkers often apply a broad stroke when referring to their method of data collection as a sociolinguistic interview, allowing the term to stand for any face-to-face interaction that is recorded for use as sociolinguistic data. This chapter distinguishes between this broad use of “sociolinguistic interview” and what I refer to as
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