age, gender, and social class differences in discourse /
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Ronald K.S. Macaulay.
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
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1 online resource (x, 225 pages) :
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illustrations
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
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Discourse variation -- Methodology -- The sample -- Social class -- Decoding Bernstein -- Talk in action -- Some common discourse features -- Syntactic variation -- Modals and modality -- Adverbs and social class -- Articles and pronouns -- The use of dialogue in narratives -- Results of quantitative measures -- Discourse styles -- Discourse sociolinguistics.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.