Full Description
This new five-volume anthology of major works has been produced in consultation with an editorial advisory board of distinguished scholars. It brings together the key texts of language variation and change to provide a comprehensive collection that represents the field's development and showcases the diverse communities that have been the subjects of investigation.
Contents
Volume IV Internal and External Constraints: Internal constraints 44 The development of a morphological class 45 A grammatical continuum for (ING) 46 Remarks on grammatical weight 47 Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature Part 18 Gender and sexuality 48 Sex, covert prestige and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich 49 The whole woman: sex and gender differences in variation 50 Aging and gendering 51 Phonation type as a stylistic variable: the use of falsetto in constructing a persona Part 19 Class, networks and speech communities, and communities of practice 52 Toward a theory of social dialect variation 53 Modeling socioeconomic class in variationist sociolinguistics 54 Social network and social class: toward an integrated sociolinguistic model 55 Modeling the speech community: confguration and variable types in the Mexican Spanish setting 56 Three waves of variation study: the emergence of meaning in the study of sociolinguistic variation Part 20 Ethnicity 57 Linguistic correlates of inter-ethnic contact 58 Ethnicity as a sociolinguistic boundary 59 Ethnolinguistic repertoire: shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity.
