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This detailed textbook critically examines methods used in sociolinguistc studies, including the ways in which the categories of age, gender, ethnicity and social class have been employed to chart language variation. It discusses the nature of data and encourages students to examine the evidence with a more critical eye.
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I greatly welcome this book. On reading it I felt a need fulfilled. Just what were those early studies like? Is it really true that in their vast scope and care for detail they have never been matched? (the answer is yes, it is true). What cell sizes were used? What are the advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls with various ways of quantifying data across a sample? Do we need statistics, and if so what sort? I found answers to these questions here. Macaulay argues strongly for accountability to the research community by making raw data available - not always the case, but increasingly so, not least through the example of Macaulay's own practice. These issues are still very much with us today, and we would all do well to read this book for both inspiration and a fuller appreciation of the pioneering contributions of the early variationists - Professor Paul Kerswill, Lancaster University
'An excellent overview of the field of variationist sociolinguistics...presenting and explaining the main issues, concepts and studies the field has generated since its inception in the 1960s...this it does extraordinarily well.' - Sebastian M. Rasinger, Journal of Sociolinguistics
'Extremely valuable...will find its way onto many a reading list' - Sebastian M. Rasinger, Journal of Sociolinguistics
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I greatly welcome this book. On reading it I felt a need fulfilled. Just what were those early studies like? Is it really true that in their vast scope and care for detail they have never been matched? (the answer is yes, it is true). What cell sizes were used? What are the advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls with various ways of quantifying data across a sample? Do we need statistics, and if so what sort? I found answers to these questions here. Macaulay argues strongly for accountability to the research community by making raw data available - not always the case, but increasingly so, not least through the example of Macaulay's own practice. These issues are still very much with us today, and we would all do well to read this book for both inspiration and a fuller appreciation of the pioneering contributions of the early variationists - Professor Paul Kerswill, Lancaster University
'An excellent overview of the field of variationist sociolinguistics...presenting and explaining the main issues, concepts and studies the field has generated since its inception in the 1960s...this it does extraordinarily well.' - Sebastian M. Rasinger, Journal of Sociolinguistics
'Extremely valuable...will find its way onto many a reading list' - Sebastian M. Rasinger, Journal of Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is a very popular area of undergraduate language study, but most books neglect to give students more than a brief account of how language data involved is collected and analyzed
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