Talk that Counts : Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse

Name: Talk that Counts
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195173826
Price: 15100 KES
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ISBN: 9780195173826

by Ronald K. S. Macaulay

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0195173821

ISBN-13 9780195173826

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 10th, 2005

Print length 236 Pages

Weight 356 grams

Dimensions 22.70 x 15.10 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Sociolinguistics

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Provides an examination of sociolinguistic variation. This book takes a quantitative approach to the study of variation, correlating features of discourse with three social categories: social class, gender, and age. The conclusions of the study indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of differences, followed by gender and social class.

In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Rinals Macaulay provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Linguists traditionally take a limited sample of linguistic data from a given population and look at phonological and morphological variables. Macaulay proposes a much different and highly quantitative approach to the study of variation, which correlates features of discourse with three social categories: social class, gender, and age. He uses as data a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, and his conclusions indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of differences, followed by gender, with social class accounting for the most variation within a group. Macaulay''s work offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others like sociologists concerned with discourse analysis.

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