General & Miscellaneous Languages - Reference, Dialectology & Linguistic Geography
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Overview
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions ‘vernacular’, ‘standard language’, ‘Received Pronunciation’, ‘social class’, and ‘linguistic insecurity’. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods using examples from comedians’ jokes, dialect poetry, formal and informal interviews, and personal narratives, the work illustrates the actual norms that speakers exemplify in various ways.Book Details
Published
November 1, 1997
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub Co
Pages
211
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781556197178