Introducing Sociolinguistics 2nd Edition by Miriam Meyerhoff ISBN 041555005X 978-0415550055

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ISBN 10: 041555005X 

ISBN 13: 978-0415550055

Author: Miriam Meyerhoff

This second edition of Miriam Meyerhoff’s highly successful textbook is supported by the Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader and online resources common to both books. It provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field covering foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplements the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings. It clearly explains the patterns and systems that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties index personal style, social power and national identity.

New features of the second edition:

a wider range of approaches to politeness theory incorporating an international range of research
expanded sections on multi-lingualism and code-switching, social class, dialect contact and tracking change over time
linkage to the new Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader which can be used alongside this textbook, allowing students to supplement and build on material covered in the textbook.
a shared website serving both Reader and Textbook which includes web- and video-links, interactive exercises and an expanded online glossary at: www.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff
a refreshed text design to assist navigation through textbook and reader.
Each chapter includes exercises that enable readers to engage critically with the text, break-out boxes making connections between sociolinguistics and linguistic or social theory, and brief, lively add-ons guaranteed to make the book a memorable and enjoyable read. With a full glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading, this text gives students all the tools they need for an excellent command of sociolinguistics.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

• What is sociolinguistics?
• How do sociolinguists study sociolinguistics?
• Making broader connections
• Sociolinguistic questions
• Structure of this book
• On quantitative and qualitative methods
• On sociolinguistic methods more generally
• Using this book with The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader

Variation and language

• Variables and variants
• Regional dialectology: mapping speakers and places
• Using regional dialect data to inform theory
• Standards, norms and alternations from the norms
• Martha’s Vineyard: a study of social dialects
• Stereotypes, markers and indicators
• Factors motivating variation
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Variation and style

• Introduction
• Studying variation in speakers’ style
• The New York City social dialect survey
• Prestige of a variable
• In search of the unknowable: the observer’s paradox
• Challenging style as attention to speech
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Language attitudes

• Introduction
• Language attitudes in language change
• Linguistic relativism
• Reclaiming derogatory terms
• Perceptual dialectology
• Attitudes to language: identities and accommodation
• Social identity theory
• Accommodation theory
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Being polite as a variable in speech

• Introduction
• Theories of politeness
• Applications of politeness theory: intercultural communication
• Critiques of politeness theory
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Multilingualism and language choice

• Introduction
• Language policy and language planning in multilingual societies
• Language rights in South Africa’s constitution
• Language rights in Vanuatu’s constitution
• Ethnolinguistic vitality
• Using the model of language vitality
• Diglossia in a community
• Is ‘vitality’ the same as ‘prestige’?
• Code switching and code mixing
• Speech levels as different codes
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Real time and apparent time

• Introduction
• Studying change over time
• Real time studies of change
• Apparent time studies of change
• Real time tests of the apparent time construct
• Profiles of change
• Challenges associated with real and apparent time sampling
• Language and ageing
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Social class

• Introduction
• Social class
• Class as a factor in linguistic variation
• Fine and broad stratification
• Cross-over effects and change from above/below
• Class and historical sociolinguistics
• The intersection of class and style
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Social networks and communities of practice

• Introduction
• Social networks
• Communities of practice: highly local networks
• Case studies of social networks and language variation
• Not all networks are equal
• How occupation interacts with social networks
• Who leads?
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Gender

• Introduction
• Sex or gender?
• Exclusive gender differences
• Preferential gender differences
• Principles of gender and variation: a historical picture
• Moving beyond Labov’s principles
• Gender practices
• Strategic use of gender differences
• Gendered style
• Gender and sexuality
• Wider implications of rethinking gender
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Language contact

• How contact between varieties affects variation and change
• Dialect levelling
• Global contact: global English?
• Contact-induced change
• Sociolinguistic constraints on contact
• Chapter summary
• Further reading

Looking back and looking ahead

• Variation is what we know

• Theory in sociolinguistics
• Interpreting and motivating variation
• A final word: the triumph of multiple causation

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