![]() ![]() It discusses the linguistic variable and its significance, crucial social variables such as social stratification, sex, and age, and the cultural significance of linguistic variation. A clear introduction to sociolinguistics that is suitable for first-year students. It shows how empirical explorations have made sociolinguistics the most stimulating field in the contemporary study of language. An overview of the major topics in the study of language variation and change, intended for undergraduates with some background in basic linguistics. ![]() It provides a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics that centres on the study of language variation and change, now incorporating the latest developments in the field. Summary: 'This revised edition of Sociolinguistic Theory brings together the most important descriptive and theoretical findings on linguistic variation and change. It is a revised introduction to sociolinguistic theory by one of the top scholars in the field. The revised edition of "Sociolinguistic Theory" presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centering on the study of language variation and change. His theory of semantics, Fishman suggested, was ‘profoundly cultural and socio-situational’, and so a comfort-ing antidote to the anti-sociolinguistic theory that Chomsky was establishing.4 Weinreich had a strong influence on many of the founders, not least on his student William Labov. Adaptive Significance of Language Variation.5.1 The Babelian Hypothesis.5.2 Global Counteradaptivity and Local Adaptivity.5.3 Dialects in Lower Animals.5.4 The Persistence of the Non-standard.5.5 Traditional Theories of the Sources of Diversity.5.6 A Sociolinguistic Theory of the Sources of Diversity.5.7 Vernacular Roots.5.8 Linguistic Variation and Social. Accents in Time.4.1 Aging.4.2 The Acquisition of Sociolects.4.3 Family and Friends.4.4 Declarations of Adolescence.4.5 Young Adults in the Talk Market.4.6 Changes in Progress Expressing Sex and Gender.3.1 The Interplay of Biology and Sociology.3.2 Sex Patterns with Stable Variables.3.3 Language, Gender, and Mobility in Two Communities.3.4 Sex and Gender Differences in Language.3.5 Male and Female Speech Patterns in Other Societies.3.6 Linguistic Evidence for Sex and Gender Differences Class, Network, and Mobility.2.1 Social Class and Sociolinguistic Sampling.2.2 Indexing Social Class.2.3 Class Markers.2.4 The Effects of Mobility.2.5 Homogenization.2.6 Networks.2.7 Linguistic Correlates of Network Integration.2.8 Interaction of Network and Other Independent Variables.2.9 Oddballs and Insiders Correlations.1.1 The Domain of Sociolinguistics.1.2 The Variable as a Structural Unit.1.3 Variation and the Tradition of Categoricity List of Figures.List of Tables.Series Editor's Preface.Preface to the First Edition.Preface to the Second Edition.Preface to the Revised Edition.Acknowledgments Sociolinguistic theory provides a dynamic view in which change is apprehended in progress, so that leaders and laggards can be identified and both the course of its diffusion and its rate can be.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]()
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