Milroy, Lesley
Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation
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.
- Author(s)
- Milroy, Lesley
- Gordon, Matthew
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2003
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Language in Society
- Page amount
- 280 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470758205
- Printed ISBN
- 9780631222248