Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis
edited by Arnold Jennifer, Renee Blake and Brad Davidson
CSLI, 1996 Cloth: 978-1-57586-039-8 | Paper: 978-1-57586-038-1 | eISBN: 978-1-57586-762-5 Library of Congress Classification P120.V37C665 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.44
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK This volume collects selected papers from the twenty-third New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV23) conference held at Stanford University. It is a collection of innovative papers on the newest developments in research on variation. The range of topics covered in this collection include: phonological variation, morphosyntactic variation, register and style, discourse, codeswitching, and language change. A foreword by John Rickford ties the collection together. This volume will be of interest to sociolinguists, sociologists, and any scholar interested in comparative linguistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Phonological Variation: 1. Freedom of movement: /-uw/-fronting in the Midwest
2. The (ING) variable: patterns of variation in a fraternity
3. Competing norms and selective assimilation: mixing outer banks and southern /oh/
4. On the social basis of phonetic resistance: the shifting
Part II. Morphosyntactic Variation: 5. Null and expressed pronoun variation in Mexican-descent children
6. Linguistic preference and prescriptive dictum: on the phonological and morphological justification of ain't
7. Sorting out morphosyntactic variation in French
8. Copula variability in the Belize continuum and the
9. Accounting for variable word-final deletion within optimality theory
10. Variation in negative inversion in AAVE: an optimality theoretic approach
11. The problem of syntactic variation
Part III. Register and Style: 12. Compliments, compliment responses and politeness in an African-American community
13. Discourse genre, type of situation and topic of conversation in relation to phonological variables in Puerto Rican Spanish
14. Contact with media and linguistic
15. Sociolinguistic factors in sign language research
16. Intonation and register variation: the case of the English negative
Part IV. Discourse: 17. Engaging the reader: the changing use of connectives in newspaper discourse
18. Social effects and interactional dynamics: their relative importance for a discourse procedure
19. OK - a dynamic event in Montreal French
20. Laughter as interaction strategy: discursive and phonetic strategies
21. Whose story is this?: Point of view variation and group
22. Variation in Narrative Structure
23. A study on the use of reported speech in spoken language
Part V. Codeswitching: 24. Code switching in a bidialectal school
25. A competence model of codeswitching
26. Intrasentential codeswitching in diglossic settings and its
27. Organizational principles behind codeswitching and interlanguage development in early adult second language acquisition
Part VI. Language change: 28. The linguistic consequences of catastrophic effects
29. Social stratification, linguistic constraints and inherent ...
30. The spread of urban AAVE: a case study
31. Constraints on the loss of case marking in English
32. A trend study of a trendy change
33. Substratal effects on the evolution of modals in East LA English.
This volume collects selected papers from the twenty-third New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV23) conference held at Stanford University. It is a collection of innovative papers on the newest developments in research on variation. The range of topics covered in this collection include: phonological variation, morphosyntactic variation, register and style, discourse, codeswitching, and language change. A foreword by John Rickford ties the collection together. This volume will be of interest to sociolinguists, sociologists, and any scholar interested in comparative linguistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Phonological Variation: 1. Freedom of movement: /-uw/-fronting in the Midwest
2. The (ING) variable: patterns of variation in a fraternity
3. Competing norms and selective assimilation: mixing outer banks and southern /oh/
4. On the social basis of phonetic resistance: the shifting
Part II. Morphosyntactic Variation: 5. Null and expressed pronoun variation in Mexican-descent children
6. Linguistic preference and prescriptive dictum: on the phonological and morphological justification of ain't
7. Sorting out morphosyntactic variation in French
8. Copula variability in the Belize continuum and the
9. Accounting for variable word-final deletion within optimality theory
10. Variation in negative inversion in AAVE: an optimality theoretic approach
11. The problem of syntactic variation
Part III. Register and Style: 12. Compliments, compliment responses and politeness in an African-American community
13. Discourse genre, type of situation and topic of conversation in relation to phonological variables in Puerto Rican Spanish
14. Contact with media and linguistic
15. Sociolinguistic factors in sign language research
16. Intonation and register variation: the case of the English negative
Part IV. Discourse: 17. Engaging the reader: the changing use of connectives in newspaper discourse
18. Social effects and interactional dynamics: their relative importance for a discourse procedure
19. OK - a dynamic event in Montreal French
20. Laughter as interaction strategy: discursive and phonetic strategies
21. Whose story is this?: Point of view variation and group
22. Variation in Narrative Structure
23. A study on the use of reported speech in spoken language
Part V. Codeswitching: 24. Code switching in a bidialectal school
25. A competence model of codeswitching
26. Intrasentential codeswitching in diglossic settings and its
27. Organizational principles behind codeswitching and interlanguage development in early adult second language acquisition
Part VI. Language change: 28. The linguistic consequences of catastrophic effects
29. Social stratification, linguistic constraints and inherent ...
30. The spread of urban AAVE: a case study
31. Constraints on the loss of case marking in English
32. A trend study of a trendy change
33. Substratal effects on the evolution of modals in East LA English.