Observing and Analysing Natural Language A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method
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Biografisk notat
Lesley Milroy is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne."An impressive book by any standards, and is likely to take its place as a "classic" of sociolinguistics." <i>R.A. Hudson, Journal of Linguistics </i>(of the first edition)
Acknowledgments.
1. Language, Class and Community.
2. Obtaining Data in the Speech Community: Major Principles.
3. Studying Language in teh Community: The Fieldworker and the Social Network.
4. The Social Context of Speech Events.
5. The Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Data.
6. The Language of the Individual Speaker: Patterns of Variation and Network Structure.
7. Conclusions and Theoretical Implications.
Appendix.
References.
Index.
First published in 1980, Language and Social Networks has had a great influence on the development of sociolinguistics. The second edition incorporates an extensive new chapter reappraising the original research and discussing other sociolinguistic work in the same paradigm.