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age, gender, and social class differences in discourse
Here the author provides a new way of examining sociolinguistic variation. Using a sample from 33 speakers of English in Glasgow, he offers a new methodological paradigm to an audience of sociolinguists and others concerned with discourse analysis.
1. Discourse Variation; 2. Methodology; 3. The Sample; 4. Social Class; 5. Decoding Bernstein; 6. Talk in Action; 7. Some Common Discourse Features; 8. Syntactic Variation; 9. Modals and Modality; 10. Adverbs and Social Class; 11. Articles and Pronouns; 12. The Use of Dialogue in Narratives; 13. Results of Quantitative Measures; 14. Discourse Styles; 15. Discourse Sociolinguistics; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Includes bibliographical references and index.