Revision of the author s thesis Ph. D.--Michigan State University 1977 originally presented under title. Extra-linguistic non-semological conditioning of categorical alternation.... Lees meer.

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.

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.

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Diese soziolinguistische Arbeit erforscht anhand von vorwiegend s ddeutschen Patientenbriefen des 19. und fr hen 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem Corpus of Patient Documents wie externe Einflussfaktoren und die F higkeit zu strategischer Variation auf der sprachlichen Ebene d... Lees meer.

This book examines the interrelations between language and society in the German-speaking countries. It is the most detailed account yet to appear in English of German sociolinguistics. This book examines the interrelations between language and society in the German-... 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.

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 collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from the Late Middle English to the present using corpus linguistic tools to address divergence and convergence in local and global perspectives.... Lees meer.

Introducing a variety of research topics on the theme of language contact this book investigates language contact and conflict issues across the full range of Arabic as it is used both in the Arabic world and in the diaspora. This book contains 17 studies by leadin... Lees meer.

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.

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.

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 groundbreaking collection showcases Jenny Cheshire s influential work in bringing greater attention to quantitative analysis of socio-grammatical variation and builds upon her contributions with new lines of inquiry pushing sociolinguistic research forward.... Lees meer.

Why does human language vary from one person or one group to another. In what ways does it vary. How do linguists go about studying variation in say the sound system or the sentence structure of a particular language. Why is the study of language variation import... Lees meer.