Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation
Book Details
Author(s)
Lesley Milroy, Matthew Gordon
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
0631222251
ISBN-13
9780631222255
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#1,509,145
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
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Description
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.
