Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors vii

Acknowledgments xii

Symbols for Vowels Used in This Volume xiii

Articulatory Position of Vowels Used in This Volume xiv

Introduction 1
Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen

1 A Historical Assessment of Research Questions in Sociolinguistics 7
Kirk Hazen

Part I Types of Data and Methods of Data Collection 23

2 Sociolinguistic Interviews 25
Michol Hoffman

3 Written Surveys and Questionnaires in Sociolinguistics 42
Erik Schleef

4 Experimental Methods in Sociolinguistics 58
Katie Drager

5 Computer-mediated Communication and Linguistic Landscapes 74
Jannis Androutsopoulos

Part II Methods of Analysis 91

Focusing on Features of Language from a Sociolinguistic Perspective 92

6 Sociohistorical Analysis 93
Terttu Nevalainen

7 Corpus Linguistics in Sociolinguistics 107
Paul Baker

8 Phonetic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 119
Erik R. Thomas

9 Phonological Considerations in Sociophonetics 136
Paul Kerswill and Kevin Watson

10 Morphosyntactic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 149
Julia Davydova

11 Vocabulary Analysis in Sociolinguistic Research 163
Michael Adams

12 Doing Discourse Analysis in Sociolinguistics 177
Janet Holmes

13 Words and Numbers: Statistical Analysis in Sociolinguistics 194
Gregory R. Guy

Focusing on Aspects of Sociocultural Context in Analyzing Language 211

14 Anthropological Analysis in Sociolinguistics 213
Alexandra Jaffe

15 Conversation Analysis in Sociolinguistics 230
Paul Drew

16 Geographical Dialectology 246
David Britain

17 Speech Communities, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice 262
Robin Dodsworth

18 Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation in Multilingual Contexts 276
Rajend Mesthrie

19 Social Context, Style, and Identity in Sociolinguistics 290
Nikolas Coupland

20 Researching Children’s Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence 304
Carmel O’Shannessy

Index 325