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Style: Language Variation and Identity (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)

By Nikolas Coupland

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0521853036, 9780521853033, 9780511350054
Open Library ID
OL7766765M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1356470 bytes)
Pages
224\225
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers to the wide range of strategic actions and performances that speakers engage in, to construct themselves and their social lives. Coupland draws on and integrates a wide variety of contemporary sociolinguistic research as well as his own extensive research in this field. The emphasis is on how social meanings are made locally, in specific relationships, genres, groups and cultures, and on studying language variation as part of the analysis of spoken discourse.

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