Quantitative Methods in Sociolinguistics

✍ Scribed by Ronald Macaulay

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This detailed textbook critically examines methods used in sociolinguistic studies, including the ways in which the categories of age, gender, ethnicity and social class have been employed to chart language variation. It discusses the nature of data and encourages students to examine evidence with a more critical eye.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
1 Social Categories
2 The Nature of Data
3 Collecting Data
4 Tabulating the Results
5 Methods of Analysis
6 Some Individual Studies
7 An Example of Discourse Variation
Afterword
Appendix
References
Name Index
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Subject Index
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