The Sociolinguistics Reader 2. Gender and Discourse

Jenny Cheshire

ISBN 10: 034069999X / ISBN 13: 9780340699997

Editore: Arnold NaN, 1997

Beschriftungen / Markierungen. Volume 2 of this two-volume text looks first at patterns of language variation, how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behavior. It goes on to examine sociolinguistic issues surrounding discourse, with reference to the communication of affective meaning, conversational routines, grammaticalization and language change, intertextuality, and cross-cultural discourse patterns and their social implications. Codice articolo 3702739f-ebef-45e6-93c3-2de62355d954

Riassunto:

The Sociolinguistics Reader presents a state-of-the-art account of the discipline in the closing years of the twentieth century.



Volume 2: Gender and Discourse in the first section looks at patterns of language variation, examining how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behaviour. Section II, meanwhile, examines the sociolinguistic issues surrounding discourse, with reference to the communication of affective meaning, conversational routines, grammaticalisation and language change, intertextuality, cross-cultural discourse patterns and their social implications.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Peter Trudgill, Honorary Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia, UK
Jenny Cheshire, Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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Titolo: The Sociolinguistics Reader 2. Gender and ...
Casa editrice: Arnold NaN
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Softcover
Condizione: Fair