Physical Description:print xii, 735 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 714-727) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Social worlds through language / Nikolas Coupland , Adam Jaworski -- Part I: Language variation. 2. Dialect in society / Walt Wolfram -- 3. The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores / William Labov -- 4. The social differentiation of English in Norwich / Peter Trudgill -- 5. The transmission problem in linguistic change / William Labov -- 6. Be like: the new quotative in English / Sali A. Tagliamonte -- 7. Network structure and linguistic change / James Milroy , Lesley Milroy -- 8. Demythologizing sociolinguistics / Deborah Cameron -- 9. Syntactic variation and beyond / Jenny Cheshire -- 10. Ethnography and the study of variation / Penelope Eckert -- Part II: Language, gender and sexuality. 11. 'Women's language' or 'powerless language'? / William M. O'Barr , Bowman K. Atkins -- 12. The relativity of linguistic strategies: rethinking power and solidarity in gender and dominance / Deborah Tannen -- 13. Fraternity men: variation and discourses of masculinity / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- 14. Masculinity manoeuvres: critical discursive psychology and the analysis of identity strategies / Margaret Weatherell , Nigel Edley -- 15. Why be normal?: language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls / Mary Bucholtz -- 16. Lip service on the fantasy lines / Kira Hall -- 17. Language and identity in drag queen performances / Rusty Barrett --
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