Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

Penelope Eckert

ISBN 10: 0521597897 / ISBN 13: 9780521597890

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, 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.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521597897
• ISBN 13: 9780521597890
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

Offers a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language.

Recensione

'... 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