Meaning and Linguistic Variation

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Meaning and Linguistic Variation

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Linguistic styles particularly variations in pronunciation, carry a wide range of meaning - from speakers' socio-economic class to their mood or stance in the moment. This book examines the development of the study of sociolinguistic variation, from early demographic studies to a focus on the construction of social meaning in stylistic practice. It traces the development of the 'Third Wave' approach to sociolinguistic variation, uncovering the stylistic practices that underlie broad societal patterns of change.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781108618502
Print ISBN
9781107122970
Format
Page Fidelity (PDF)
Útgáfa
0
Höfundar
Penelope Eckert
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2018-07-05
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10

Kaflar

  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface: the ant's eye view
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I Beginnings
  • 1 Gascon
  • The Paradox of National Language Movements
  • Introduction
  • Occitania and Occitan
  • Language Shift in Occitania
  • The Need for Standardization
  • The Regional Periphery
  • The Reperipheralization of the Periphery
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Stigma and Meaning in Language Shift
  • Diglossia: Separate and Unequal
  • Setting up an Opposition
  • Bringing the Opposition into the Community
  • Bringing the Opposition Home
  • Part II My Participation in the Second Wave
  • 3 Jocks and Burnouts
  • Clothing and Geography in a Suburban High School
  • 4 Jocks, Burnouts and Sound Change
  • Sound Change and Adolescent Social Structure
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Adolescent Social Structure
  • The Jocks and the Corporate Structure of the School
  • The Burnouts and the Metropolitan Environment
  • Polarization of the Categories
  • Social Categories and Orientation to Sound Changes in Progress
  • Adolescence and Sound Change
  • 5 The Local and the Extra-Local
  • Variation and a Sense of Place
  • The Detroit Suburbs
  • The Local Social Order and the Conurbation
  • Semiotics, the Local, and the Extra-Local
  • A Question of Method
  • 6 On the Outs
  • Communities of Practice
  • Liberated by Gender
  • The Whole Woman: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation
  • Interpretations of Sex Differences in Variation
  • Hierarchy
  • Sex Differences as Opposition
  • Power, Status, and Other Things
  • Gender and Adolescent Social Categories
  • Phonological Variation
  • Conclusions
  • 7 Foregrounding Style
  • Variation and Personal/Group Style
  • Back to Elementary School
  • Vowels and Nailpolish: The Emergence of Linguistic Style in the Preadolescent Heterosexual Marketpl
  • Part III The Third Wave
  • 8 The SLIC Generation
  • Demystifying Sexuality and Desire
  • Introduction
  • Personae and Identity Categories
  • Naturalizing Sexuality, Desire and Emotion
  • Sex, Desire, Emotion and the Heterosexual Market
  • The Issue of Agency
  • Elephants in the Room
  • 9 The Nature of Indexicality in Variation
  • Variation and the Indexical Field
  • Introduction
  • The Fate of Meaning in Variation Studies
  • Variables, Style, and Social Meaning
  • Belten High Adolescents
  • Beijing Managers
  • Indexical Order and Indexical Fields
  • An Example: (ING)
  • Another Example: /t/ Release in American English
  • Conclusions
  • 10 What Kinds of Signs Are These?
  • Where Do Ethnolects Stop?
  • Introduction
  • Variation and Indexicality
  • Chicano and Anglo Englishes in California
  • Susan, Carlos, Ethnicity, and the Heterosexual Market
  • Linguistic Resources
  • Conclusions
  • 11 The Semiotic Landscape
  • Spreading vs. Circulation
  • Where Do We Go From Here?
  • References
  • Index