Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521597890)

The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.

Author: Penelope Eckert
ISBN-10: 0521597897
ISBN-13: 9780521597890
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2002
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d