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Front Cover 1 Introducing Sociolinguistics 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 7 List of figure 11 List of tables 14 Sounds and symbols used in the text 15 Acknowledgements 18 Maps 21 1. Introduction 23 What is sociolinguistics? 23 How do sociolinguists study sociolinguistics? 23 Making broader connections 24 Sociolinguistic questions 24 Structure of this book 25 On quantitative and qualitative methods 28 On sociolinguistic methods more generally 29 Using this book with The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader 30 2. Variation and language 32 Variables and variants 32 Regional dialectology: mapping speakers and places 35 Using regional dialect data to inform theory 37 Standards, norms and alternations from the norms 40 Martha’s vineyard: a study of social dialects 40 Stereotypes, markers and indicators 48 Factors motivating variation 49 Chapter summary 51 Further reading 52 3. Variation and style 53 Introduction 53 Studying variation in speakers’ style 54 The new york City social dialect survey 55 Prestige of a variable 63 In search of the unknowable: the observer’s paradox 64 Challenging style as attention to speech 66 Chapter summary 78 Further reading 79 4. Language attitudes 80 Introduc

Author

Meyerhoff, Miriam

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2026-03-14