Corpus and sociolinguistics :: investigating age and gender in female talk /

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of s...

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1. Verfasser: Murphy, Bróna
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 38.
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Zusammenfassung:Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of hig.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027288615
9027288615
9027223122
9789027223128
1282558757
9781282558755
9786612558757
661255875X
ISSN:1388-0373 ;

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