Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theorizing the Third Wave - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108471625 ISBN 13: 9781108471626

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

The only book offering an overview of third-wave variation research and theory, which is an approach centered on social meaning.

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About the Authors

Lauren Hall-Lew is Reader in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on differences in speech among speakers of different social backgrounds and in different social contexts.

Emma Moore is Professor of Sociolinguistics and British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2019–2020). She researches the social meaning of syntax and has edited three other CUP volumes: Analysing Older English (2011); Language and A Sense of Place (2017); and Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax (2019).

Robert J. Podesva is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University, where he directs the Interactional Sociophonetics Laboratory. His research examines the social significance of phonetic variation and its role in the construction of identity. He is co-editor (with Devyani Sharma) of Research Methods in Linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108471625
• ISBN 13: 9781108471626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 406
• Editor: Hall-Lew Lauren, Moore Emma, Podesva Robert J.