Introducing sociolinguistics /
By: Meyerhoff, Miriam.
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011Edition: 2nd edition.Description: xxv, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415550055 (hb); 9780415550055:; 041555005X (hb); 9780415550062 (pb); 0415550068.Subject(s): SociolinguisticsDDC classification: 306.44Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 306.44 MEY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0064254 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- List of tables -- Sounds and symbols used in the text -- Acknowledgements -- maps -- Introduction -- Variation and language -- Variation and style -- Language attitudes -- Being polite as a variable in speech -- Multilingualism and language choice -- Real time and apparent time -- Social class -- ocial networks and communities of practice -- Gender -- Llanguage contact -- Looking back and looking ahead -- Notes on the exercises -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Providing a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic methods and areas of investigation, this text explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties index personal style, social power and national identity.