Style: Language Variation and IdentityStyle refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers to the wide range of strategic actions and performances that speakers engage in, to construct themselves and their social lives. Coupland draws on and integrates a wide variety of contemporary sociolinguistic research as well as his own extensive research in this field. The emphasis is on how social meanings are made locally, in specific relationships, genres, groups and cultures, and on studying language variation as part of the analysis of spoken discourse. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 32 |
Section 3 | 33 |
Section 4 | 34 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 64 |
Section 7 | 72 |
Section 8 | 73 |
Section 10 | 82 |
Section 11 | 106 |
Section 12 | 126 |
Section 13 | 146 |
Section 14 | 158 |
Section 15 | 177 |
Section 16 | 180 |
Section 17 | 184 |
Section 9 | 74 |
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AAVE accent accommodation theory acts of identity African American analysis approach associated assumption audience design authenticity Bauman Bell Bell's Bevan Bourdieu bovvered Cardiff Chapter concept construction contextualisation Coupland Creole cultural dialect dimension discourse drag queens Eckert English ethnic example Extract forms frame gender genre high performance hypercorrect idea ideological interaction Labov language ideology language variation late-modernity linguistic linked Lumbee mass media non-standard norms Pakeha pantomime Dame patterns perspective Peter Trudgill phonetic political posh potential practice pronunciation quantitative Rampton Received Pronunciation refers reflexive relation relationships relevant says semiotic sense social categories social class social context social identity social meaning social structure social styles socio sociolinguistic style sociolinguistic variables sort speakers speaking specific speech style standard style-shifting stylistic variation Sue’s talk tion travel agency utterances variationist sociolinguistics varieties vernacular vernacular speech versus voice Wales Welsh William Labov