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How do we adapt our grammar to communicate social detail? Do all
working class people have a local dialect or are we free to use
language in ways that transcend our place in the social hierarchy?
Seeking to answer these questions, this pioneering book is the
first to exclusively and extensively address the relationship
between social meaning and grammatical variation. It demonstrates
how we use grammar to communicate alignments and stances and to
construct our social style or social identity. Based on an
ethnographic study of high school girls in Northern England, it
also uses the author's own experiences as a working-class student,
to argue for change in how we conceive of grammar and how grammar
is taught in schools. Lively and engaging real life examples from
the study are included throughout, bringing to life new
contributions to debates in variationist sociolinguistic and
linguistic anthropology.
The 'third wave' of variation study, spearheaded by the
sociolinguist Penelope Eckert, places its focus on social meaning,
or the inferences that can be drawn about speakers based on how
they talk. While social meaning has always been a concern of modern
sociolinguistics, its aims and assumptions have not been explicitly
spelled out until now. This pioneering book provides a
comprehensive overview of the central tenets of variation study,
examining several components of dialects, and considering language
use in a wide variety of cultural and linguistic contexts. Each
chapter, written by a leader in the field, posits a unique
theoretical claim about social meaning and presents new empirical
data to shed light on the topic at hand. The volume makes a case
for why attending to social meaning is vital to the study of
variation while also providing a foundation from which
variationists can productively engage with social meaning.
Is historical linguistics different in principle from other
linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in
gathering and analysing data from early English, including the
incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of
misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data
can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of
leading English historical linguists who have encountered such
issues first-hand, to discuss and suggest solutions to a range of
problems in the phonology, syntax, dialectology and onomastics of
older English. The topics extend widely over the history of
English, chronologically and linguistically, and include
Anglo-Saxon naming practices, the phonology of the alliterative
line, computational measurement of dialect similarity, dialect
levelling and enregisterment in late Modern English, stress-timing
in English phonology and the syntax of Old and early Modern
English. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and
students in English historical linguistics.
A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories,
constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language.
The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well
as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of
approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change,
constructions and constructional change, and comparative and
typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the
analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of
the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both
theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the
present day. The result is a body of research which will add
substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English
language, by stimulating further research in the field.
Additional Contributor Is Miguel A. Catalan. Edited By Jacob R.
Schramm. Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society, V34,
Part 2.
Additional Authors Edward F. Adams, Walter S. Adams And Harold D.
Babcock. Carnegie Institution Of Washington, Publication No. 396.
Papers Of The Mount Wilson Observatory, V3.
Is historical linguistics different in principle from other
linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in
gathering and analysing data from early English, including the
incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of
misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data
can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of
leading English historical linguists who have encountered such
issues first-hand, to discuss and suggest solutions to a range of
problems in the phonology, syntax, dialectology and onomastics of
older English. The topics extend widely over the history of
English, chronologically and linguistically, and include
Anglo-Saxon naming practices, the phonology of the alliterative
line, computational measurement of dialect similarity, dialect
levelling and enregisterment in late Modern English, stress-timing
in English phonology and the syntax of Old and early Modern
English. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and
students in English historical linguistics.
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