Sociolinguistics [[electronic resource] ] : an international handbook of the science of language and society = Soziolinguistik : ein internationales Handbuch zur Wissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft . Volume 2 = 2. Teil. / / edited by Ulrich Ammon ... [et al]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777867003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2005
• ISBN: 1-282-19355-4; 9786612193552; 3-11-019425-2
• Edizione: [2nd completely rev. & extended ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (907 p.)
• Collana: Handbooks of linguistics and communication science ; ; 3.2
• Classificazione: ES 100
• Altri autori (Persone): AmmonUlrich
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetti: Sociolinguistics; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Neighbouring Disciplines -- Cultural Sociology -- Social Psychology -- Ethnology and Anthropology -- Dialectology -- Psycholinguistics -- Human Geography -- Sociolinguistic Methodology -- Research Policy -- The Possibilities and Limits of a Sociolinguistic Theory -- Issues in Research Ethics -- Research Aims and Methodology -- Quantitative Methods -- Qualitative Methods -- Stages of Research -- Problems of Representativeness -- Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies -- Elicitation as a Problem of Discourse -- Research Planning in Micro- and Macro-Studies -- Observation -- Sociolinguistic Interviews -- Schriftliche Befragung -- Experiment -- Test -- The Possibilities and Limits of Corpus-Linguistic Description -- Language Censuses -- Contrastive Sociolinguistics -- Transcription Systems -- Statistical Descriptions of Language -- Linguistic Measurements -- Variable Rules -- The Grammar of Varieties -- Implicational Analysis -- Computer Analysis -- Ethnographic Description -- Conversational Analysis -- Discourse-Pragmatic Description -- Attitude Measurements -- Analyses of Intelligibility -- The Description of Non-Verbal Behavior -- Findings of Sociolinguistic ; Research -- Social Class and Sociolinguistic Codes -- Multilingual Cities -- Urban Sociolinguistics -- Research on Language Attitudes -- Research on Language Contact -- Research on Language Conflict -- Research on Sociolinguistic Style -- Research on National Languages -- Research on Pidgins and Creoles -- Research on Languages for Special Purposes -- The Ethnography of Speaking -- Linguistic Politeness -- Ethnomethodology -- Linguistic Relativity -- Dialect Sociology -- Domain and Role Specific Research -- Research on Networks -- Code-Switching -- Bilingualism and Multilingualism -- Research on Youth-Language -- Linguistic and Ethnic Minorities -- Linguistic Barriers between Speech Communities and Language Choice in International Contacts -- Pluricentric and Divided Languages -- Communities with "Undeveloped Languages" -- Roofless Dialects -- Age- and Generation-Specific Use of Language -- Gender and Language -- Language and Identity -- Linguistic Prejudice and Stereotypes -- Communication in Institutions -- Language and Mass Communication -- Spoken and Written Language -- Political Discourse -- The Politics of Language Spread -- Economic Aspects of Languages -- Cross- and Intercultural Communication -- Perceptual Dialectology -- Historical Sociolinguistics -- Sound Change in Progress -- Sound Change -- Grammatical Change -- Semantic and Lexical Change
• Sommario/riassunto: This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For ""classic"" linguistics there appears to be a need for a revi ew of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the...