Sociolinguistics
Method and Interpretation
Language in Society
2. Auflage Dezember 2002
280 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation presents a
thorough and practical description of current sociolinguistic
methodology while recognizing that methodological decisions can
never be separated from questions of theory.
* * Presents a thorough and practical description of current
sociolinguistic methodology.
* Considers a range of issues including speaker selection, data
collection, social considerations, phonological and syntactical
variation, style-shifting and code-switching.
* Recognizes that methodological decisions can never be separated
from questions of theory.
* Stresses the need for the entire research process from the
initial design of the project to the interpretation of results to
be grounded in theoretically defensible positions.
* Shows how the research paradigm established by a few
influential pioneers has been fruitfully expanded by exciting new
trends.
1. Sociolinguistics: Models and Methods.
2. Locating and Selecting Subjects.
3. Data Collection.
4. Language Variation and the social World: Issues in Analysis
and Interpretation.
5. Social Relationships and Social Practices.
6. Investigating Phonological Variation.
7. Beyond Phonology: Analyzing and Interpreting Higher Level
Variation.
8. Style-shifting and Code-Switching.
9. Epilogue.
References.
Index.
research methods that takes in the breadth and scope of
sociolinguistics as it has come to maturity. They relate analytic
methods to research goals and always keep an eye on matters of
interpretation and evaluation that give meaning to quantitative and
statistical results. This book is a valuable resource not only for
students but also for experienced researchers.' J. K.
Chambers, University of Toronto
'Given the accelerating, visible growth of
sociolinguistics, it is surprising that there are practically no
books dedicated to methods. This is a welcome exception. But it is
more than a discussion of techniques; it is firmly grounded in
current sociolinguistic theory. The combination of an experienced
fieldworker and analyst, and an up-and-coming scholar has resulted
in one of the most useful texts in variation studies to be
published in the last decade.' Walt Wolfram, North
Carolina State University
of Michigan. She is the author of numerous books and articles,
including Authority in Language (third edition, 1999) and
Language and Social Networks (second edition, Blackwell
1987).
Matthew Gordon is Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of
Small-Town Values, Big-City Vowels: A Study of the Northern
Cities Shift in Michigan (2001).
