Sociolinguistics : method and interpretation

✍ Scribed by Lesley Milroy; Matthew Kelly Gordon

Publisher: Malden, MA [u.a.] Blackwell Publ. 2003
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 280
Series: Language in society, 34
Edition: 2nd
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology while recognizing that methodological decisions can never be separated from questions of theory.

Presents a thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic methodology.
Considers a range of issues including speaker selection, data collection, social considerations, phonological and syntactical variation, style-shifting and code-switching.
Recognizes that methodological decisions can never be separated from questions of theory.
Stresses the need for the entire research process from the initial design of the project to the interpretation of results to be grounded in theoretically defensible positions.
Shows how the research paradigm established by a few influential pioneers has been fruitfully expanded by exciting new trends.

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