Corpus and Sociolinguistics. Investigating age and gender in female talk.
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| Title: | Corpus and Sociolinguistics. Investigating age and gender in female talk. |
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| Description: | Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of hig. |
| Authors: | MURPHY, Bróna |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Language and languages--Age differences, English language--Age differences, Women--Language, Language and languages--Sex differences |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of hig. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027223128 9789027288615 |
