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Author:   Janet Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) ,  Kirk Hazen (West Virginia University, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780470673614

ISBN 10:   0470673613
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   11 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xii Symbols for Vowels Used in This Volume xiii Articulatory Position of Vowels Used in This Volume xiv Introduction 1 Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen 1 A Historical Assessment of Research Questions in Sociolinguistics 7 Kirk Hazen Part I Types of Data and Methods of Data Collection 23 2 Sociolinguistic Interviews 25 Michol Hoffman 3 Written Surveys and Questionnaires in Sociolinguistics 42 Erik Schleef 4 Experimental Methods in Sociolinguistics 58 Katie Drager 5 Computer-mediated Communication and Linguistic Landscapes 74 Jannis Androutsopoulos Part II Methods of Analysis 91 Focusing on Features of Language from a Sociolinguistic Perspective 92 6 Sociohistorical Analysis 93 Terttu Nevalainen 7 Corpus Linguistics in Sociolinguistics 107 Paul Baker 8 Phonetic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 119 Erik R. Thomas 9 Phonological Considerations in Sociophonetics 136 Paul Kerswill and Kevin Watson 10 Morphosyntactic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 149 Julia Davydova 11 Vocabulary Analysis in Sociolinguistic Research 163 Michael Adams 12 Doing Discourse Analysis in Sociolinguistics 177 Janet Holmes 13 Words and Numbers: Statistical Analysis in Sociolinguistics 194 Gregory R. Guy Focusing on Aspects of Sociocultural Context in Analyzing Language 211 14 Anthropological Analysis in Sociolinguistics 213 Alexandra Jaffe 15 Conversation Analysis in Sociolinguistics 230 Paul Drew 16 Geographical Dialectology 246 David Britain 17 Speech Communities, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice 262 Robin Dodsworth 18 Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation in Multilingual Contexts 276 Rajend Mesthrie 19 Social Context, Style, and Identity in Sociolinguistics 290 Nikolas Coupland 20 Researching Children's Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence 304 Carmel O'Shannessy Index 325

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<p> This book is an invaluable aid for student researchers eager to produce high-quality, impactful sociolinguistic research. The editors of this volume have met their goal of providing the student with the theoretical framework, historical background, and methodological tools required to execute an array of different research endeavors within the field. (LINGUIST List, 8 December 2014)

<p> This book is an invaluable aid for student researcherseager to produce high-quality, impactful sociolinguistic research.The editors of this volume have met their goal of providing thestudent with the theoretical framework, historical background, andmethodological tools required to execute an array of differentresearch endeavors within the field. (LINGUISTList, 8 December 2014)

This book is an invaluable aid for student researchers eager to produce high-quality, impactful sociolinguistic research. The editors of this volume have met their goal of providing the student with the theoretical framework, historical background, and methodological tools required to execute an array of different research endeavors within the field. (LINGUIST List, 8 December 2014)

This book is an invaluable aid for student researchers eager to produce high-quality, impactful sociolinguistic research. The editors of this volume have met their goal of providing the student with the theoretical framework, historical background, and methodological tools required to execute an array of different research endeavors within the field. (LINGUIST List, 8 December 2014)

Author Information

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her sociolinguistics teaching focuses on workplace discourse, New Zealand English, and language and gender. She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her many publications include The Handbook of Language and Gender (edited with M. Meyerhoff, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity (with M. Marra and B. Vine, 2011), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fourth Edition (2013). Kirk Hazen is Professor of Linguistics and director of the West Virginia Dialect Project at West Virginia University. He is the author of Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks (with W. Wolfram and N. Schilling-Estes, 1998), Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South: A Sociolinguistic View through Past and Present Be (2000), and An Introduction to Language (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

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