The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (Routledge Companions)

✍ Scribed by Carmen Llamas, Louise Mullany, Peter Stockwell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: Routledge Companions
• Edition: New edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Have you ever noticed an accent or puzzled over a dialect phrase? Language can be a powerful tool with which one can create a persona; it can be a common ground between people or can be used as a divide between social groups. This Companion is for anyone who is interested in how and why people speak and write with such diversity.

The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics includes articles by leading scholars in the field on:

• methods of observation and analysis
• social correlates
• socio-psychological factors
• socio-political factors
• language change.

With a substantial A-Z glossary of key terms and concepts, directions for further study, and detailed cross-referencing with links to the glossary, The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics is both an essential broad-based introduction for those new to the field, and a highly useful reference for the more advanced linguist.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES......Page 8
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 16
PART I METHODS OF OBSERVATION AND ANALYSIS......Page 22
1 VARIATION AND THE VARIABLE......Page 24
2 FIELD METHODS......Page 33
3 TECHNIQUES OF ANALYSIS: I PHONOLOGICAL VARIATION......Page 40
4 TECHNIQUES OF ANALYSIS: II MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION......Page 49
5 TECHNIQUES OF ANALYSIS: III DISCOURSE......Page 62
PART II SOCIAL CORRELATES......Page 70
6 SOCIAL CLASS......Page 72
7 GENDER......Page 83
8 AGE......Page 90
9 ETHNIC VARIETIES......Page 98
10 SPEECH COMMUNITIES......Page 105
PART III SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS......Page 114
11 STYLE AND THE LINGUISTIC REPERTOIRE......Page 116
12 LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY......Page 122
13 MOBILITY, CONTACT AND ACCOMMODATION......Page 130
14 LANGUAGE ATTITUDES......Page 137
15 POLITENESS AND POWER......Page 143
PART IV SOCIO-POLITICAL FACTORS......Page 152
16 THE IDEOLOGY OF THE STANDARD LANGUAGE......Page 154
17 THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIA......Page 161
18 MULTILINGUALISM......Page 170
19 LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION......Page 178
20 LANGUAGE POLICY AND LANGUAGE PLANNING......Page 185
PART V LANGUAGE CHANGE......Page 194
21 CREOLES AND PIDGINS......Page 196
22 KOINEIZATION......Page 206
23 COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL VARIETIES......Page 213
24 LANGUAGE DEATH......Page 220
GLOSSARY......Page 226
REFERENCES......Page 256
INDEX......Page 283

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Социолингвистика;