Research methods in sociolinguistics : a practical guide

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