This book provides a systematic study of sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a range of case studies Wendy Ayres-Bennett makes available data about linguistic variation in this period showing the wealth and variety of language usage at... Lees meer.

This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in... Lees meer.

This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives. The book considers both diachronic and synchronic pe... Lees meer.

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia codeswitching language variation and attitudes and social identity. Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines an... Lees meer.

How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are where we re from and where we re going. How and when does such variation arise. Here leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham address this question through a sociolinguistic analysis of the spee... Lees meer.

This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the super-diversifying of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations. It analyses novel data from interviews with allochthonous and autochthonous gr... Lees meer.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition. This v... Lees meer.

Sociolinguistic Variation brings together a group of leading scholars in the field of language variation and change to address the directions that sociolinguistic research is taking in the new millennium. Among the main themes of the volume are the construction of ident... Lees meer.

How we vary our speech is fundamental in signalling who we are where we re from and where we re going. How and when does such variation arise. Here leading experts Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham address this question through a sociolinguistic analysis of the spe... Lees meer.

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America this collection of some of John Russell Rickford s pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data theories and methods from each oth... Lees meer.

This book examines the interrelations between language and society in the German-speaking countries. The questions what is German and who speaks it. and how does the language vary dependent on social political and geographical factors. are addressed and placed in... Lees meer.

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Linguistic styles particularly variations in pronunciation carry a wide range of meaning - from speakers socio-economic class to their mood or stance in the moment. This book examines the development of the study of sociolinguistic variation from early demographic st... Lees meer.

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This volume of articles by sociolinguists working in the study of language variation today highlights a new direction and critiques conventional wisdom in this growing and vital field of study. The volume is divided into four sections. methodology place the role of... Lees meer.