Sociolinguistics: Theoretical DebatesNikolas Coupland Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and researchers, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society. For researchers and advanced students it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research. |
Contents
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The push of Lautgesetze the pull of enregisterment | 37 |
Variation meaning and social change | 68 |
Indexicality stance and fields in sociolinguistics | 86 |
Sociolinguistic differentiation | 113 |
Discourse data | 139 |
Theorising the market in sociolinguistics | 157 |
Embodied sociolinguistics | 173 |
From mobility to complexity in sociolinguistic theory and method | 242 |
Discourse boundaries and social change | 263 |
Theorizing media mediation and mediatization | 282 |
Interaction power | 303 |
Are there zombies in language policy? Theoretical interventions | 331 |
Seeking sociolinguistic theory | 391 |
Beyond | 417 |
Five Ms for sociolinguistic change | 433 |
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