Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a great deal about speakers' strategies with respect to variables such as social class, gender, ethnicity and age, it also affords us the opportunity to observe linguistic change in progress. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation. Beginning with an introduction to theoretical issues, the book goes on to discuss key approaches to stylistic variation in spoken language, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.

ISBN 0521597897   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780521597890 (What's this?)   Pages 360 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 530 Format Paperback   Published in Cambridge Publication date 03 Jan 2002   Height (mm) 228 Writer of introduction Eckert, Penelope, Rickford, John R. (both Stanford University, California, USA)   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress P120.V37 S79 2001   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 306.44   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		List of figures
		List of tables
		List of contributors
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction by John R. Rickford and Penelope Eckert		1
Pt. 1		Anthropological approaches
1		"Style" as distinctiveness: the culture and ideology in linguistic differentiation by Judith T. Irvine		21
2		Variety, style-shifting, and ideology by Susan Ervin-Tripp		44
3		The ethnography of genre in a Mexican market: form, function, variation by Richard Bauman		57
4		The question of genre by Ronald Macaulay		78
Pt. 2		Attention paid to speech
5		The anatomy of style-shifting by William Labov		85
6		A dissection of style-shifting by John Baugh		109
7		Style and social meaning by Penelope Eckert		119
8		Zeroing in on multifunctionality and style by Elizabeth Closs Traugott		127
Pt. 3		Audience design and self-identification
9		Back in style: reworking audience design by Allan Bell		139
10		Primitives of a system for "style" and "register" by Malcah Yaeger-Dror		170
11		Language, situation, and the relational self: theorizing dialect-style in sociolinguistics by Nikolas Coupland		185
12		Couplandia and beyond by Howard Giles		211
13		Style and stylizing from the perspective of a non-autonomous sociolinguistics by John R. Rickford		220
Pt. 4		Functionally motivated situational variation
14		Register variation and social dialect variation: the Register Axiom by Edward Finegan and Douglas Biber		235
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'... thought-provoking and frustrating in the way a book should be if it is to push the field forward. the editors deserve our gratitude for organizing it and seeing it through.' Journal of Sociolinguistics

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