This collection presents the state of the art in the fast-developing area of the study of lexical variation from sociolinguistic perspectives, drawing on a range of examples in the English language to redress the gap around lexis-focused research within sociolinguistics.
The volume is structured around three sections, each examining different approaches to the study of lexical variation in English. The first part centres on dialectology in the 21st century, reflective of the prevailing approaches to the topic. The second section examines emergent perspectives drawing on corpus linguistics while the final part features chapters looking at lexical variation from the lens of social meaning and work from third-wave variationist sociolinguistics. The book makes the case for an in-depth look at the growing range of approaches to studying lexis-oriented sociolinguistics both to contribute to our understandings of the mechanisms of language variation as well as lexis as a window into social life.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, language variation and change, dialectology, and corpus linguistics.
This collection presents the state of the art in the fast-developing area of the study of lexical variation from sociolinguistic perspectives, drawing on a range of examples in the English language to redress the gap around lexis-focused research within sociolinguistics.
Foreword: The Cinderella of sociolinguistics Joan C. Beal;
Acknowledgements;
1. Introduction: An overview of sociolinguistic approaches
to lexical variation in English Rhys J. Sandow and Natalie Braber. Section
I: Dialectology
2. A socio-geographical investigation of lexical variability
in England: Evidence from the English Dialects App David Britain, Tamsin
Blaxter and Adrian Leemann;
3. Lexical variation among mobile speakers: A
case study of words for bread in the United Kingdom George Bailey, Laurel
MacKenzie and Danielle Turton;
4. Welsh-English social-media lexicon in
comparative context: Adjectives of positive evaluation and terms of address
David Willis;
5. Lexical variation in Irish English Raymond Hickey;
6. Pit
talk of UK coal miners a comparative study Natalie Braber and John
Bellamy. Section II: Corpus linguistics
7. Lexico-grammatical variation in
spoken British English corpora Robbie Love and Nele Põldvere;
8. Light
verbs on the contact continuum Gabriel Ozón and Melanie Green;
9. The
social conditioning of lexical items for man in British English: The demise
of man and the rise of guy James M. Stratton;
10. Conceptual variation:
Gendered differences in the lexicalization of the concept of COMMODITY in
environmental narratives Justyna A. Robinson, Rhys J. Sandow and Albertus
Andito;
11. Our speech defines us: The language of Caribbean female prime
ministers Guyanne Wilson. Section III: Social meaning
12. Bare social
meanings: The production and perception of the quantifier bare Rhys J.
Sandow, Christian Ilbury, George Bailey, and Natalie Braber;
13. A word in a
word: Social perceptions of expletive infixation Matthew Hunt and Linnaea
Stockall;
14. Well first of all, you spelled sus wrong: Epistemic authority
and the social negotiation of slang Teresa Pratt;
15. Disenregistering
dude: Shifts in familiarizing vocative meaning and use in American English
Scott F. Kiesling and Soobin Choi;
16. TikTok Slang: Lexical variation and
change in social media Christian Ilbury;
17. Perspectives on lexical
variation of English in Vietnam John Bellamy and Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen
Rhys J. Sandow is a senior research associate at Concept Analytics Lab, University of Sussex, UK
Natalie Braber is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
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