Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
ISBN: 978-1-032-83525-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This collection presents the state of the art in the fast-developing area of the study of lexical variation from sociolinguistic perspectives, drawing on a range of examples in the English language to redress the gap around lexis-focused research within sociolinguistics.
The volume is structured around three sections, each examining different approaches to the study of lexical variation in English. The first part centres on dialectology in the 21st century, reflective of the prevailing approaches to the topic. The second section examines emergent perspectives drawing on corpus linguistics while the final part features chapters looking at lexical variation from the lens of social meaning and work from third-wave variationist sociolinguistics. The book makes the case for an in-depth look at the growing range of approaches to studying lexis-oriented sociolinguistics both to contribute to our understandings of the mechanisms of language variation as well as lexis as a window into social life.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, language variation and change, dialectology, and corpus linguistics.
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Foreword – Joan C. Beal; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: An Overview of Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English – Rhys J. Sandow and Natalie Braber. Section 1: Dialectology – 2. A socio-geographical investigation of lexical variability in England: evidence from the English Dialects App – David Britain, Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann; 3. Lexical variation among mobile speakers: A case study of words for bread in the United Kingdom – George Bailey, Laurel MacKenzie and Danielle Turton; 4. Welsh–English social-media lexicon in comparative context: Adjectives of positive evaluation and terms of address – David Willis; 5. Lexical Variation in Irish English – Raymond Hickey; 6. ‘Pit Talk’ of UK coal miners: A comparative study – Natalie Braber and John Bellamy. Section 2: Corpus Linguistics – 7. Lexico-grammatical variation in spoken British English corpora – Robbie Love and Nele Põldvere; 8. Light verbs on the contact continuum – Gabriel Ozón and Melanie Green; 9. The social conditioning of lexical items for man in British English. The demise of man and the rise of guy – James Stratton; 10. Conceptual variation: Gendered differences in the lexicalization of the concept of COMMODITY in environmental narratives – Justyna A. Robinson, Rhys J. Sandow and Albertus Andito; 11. ‘Our speech defines us’: The language of Caribbean female prime ministers – Guyanne Wilson. Section 3: Social Meaning – 12. Bare social meanings: The production and perception of the quantifier bare – Rhys J. Sandow, Christian Ilbury, George Bailey and Natalie Braber; 13. A word in a word: social perceptions of expletive-infixation – Matthew Hunt and Linnaea Stockall; 14. ‘Well first of all, you spelled sus wrong’: Epistemic authority and the social negotiation of ‘slang’ – Teresa Pratt; 15. Disenregistering dude: Shifts in familiarising vocative meaning and use in American English – Scott F. Kiesling and Soobin Choi; 16. ‘TikTok Slang’: Lexical Variation and Change in Social Media – Christian Ilbury; 17. Perspectives on lexical variation of English in Vietnam – John Bellamy and Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen.
