Talk that Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse - Hardcover

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195173813 ISBN 13: 9780195173819

Verlag: OUP USA, 2005

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Book by Macaulay Ronald K S

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a solid work...convincing in its main claim: that it is not just possible but worth while to conduct quantitative analyses of disourse features. (David Bowie, The Author)

Reseña del editor:

In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Rinals Macaulay provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Linguists traditionally take a limited sample of linguistic data from a given population and look at phonological and morphological variables. Macaulay proposes a much different and highly quantitative approach to the study of variation, which correlates features of discourse with three social categories: social class, gender, and age. He uses as data a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, and his conclusions indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of differences, followed by gender, with social class accounting for the most variation within a group. Macaulay's work offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others like sociologists concerned with discourse analysis.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195173813
• ISBN 13: 9780195173819
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236