The Routledge sociolinguistics reader/ Meyerhoff, Miriam [ed.]

List of figures List of tables User's guide to The Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader Acknowledgements Introduction * Erik Schleef and Miriam Meyerhoff Sociolinguistic methods for data collection and interpretation Part one: Identities, style and politeness Editors' introduction to part one * Allan Bell Back in style: Reworking audience design * Jennifer Hay, Stefanie Jannedy, and Norma Mendoza-Denton Oprah and /ay/: Lexical frequency, referee design, and style * Qing Zhang A Chinese yuppie in Beijing: Phonological variation and the construction of a new professional identity * John Laver Linguistic routines and politeness in greeting and parting * Sachiko Ide Formal forms and discernment: Two neglected aspects of universals of linguistic politeness Part two: Perceptions and language attitudes Editors' introduction to part two * Dennis R. Preston Language with an attitude * Dennis R. Preston The Li'l Abner syndrome: Written representations of speech * Thomas Purnell, William Idsardi, and John Baugh Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification * Gibson Ferguson Language education policy and the medium of instruction issue in post-colonial Africa * Isabelle Buchstaller Social stereotypes, personality traits and regional perceptions displaced: Attitudes towards the 'new' quotative in the U.K. Part three: Multilingualism and language contact Editors' introduction to part three * Jinny K. Choi Bilingualism in Paraguay: Forty years after Rubin's study * Don Kulick and Christopher Stroud Code-switching in Gapun: Social and linguistic aspects of language use in a language shifting community * Jan-Peter Blom and John J. Gumperz Social meaning in linguistic structure: Code-switching in Norway * David Britain Dialect contact, focusing and phonological rule complexity: The koineisation of Fenland English * Monica Heller Legitimate language in a multilingual school * Ben Rampton Language crossing and the redefinition of reality * Miriam Meyerhoff and Nancy Niedzielski The Globalisation of Vernacular Variation Part four: Variation and change Editors' introduction to part four * William Labov The social motivation of a sound change * Rika Ito and Sali Tagliamonte Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers * Gillian Sankoff and Helene Blondeau Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French * Peter Trudgill Norwich revisited: Recent linguistic changes in an English urban dialect * Richard Cameron Aging and Gendering Part five: Social class, networks and communities of practice Editors' introduction to part five * Lesley Milroy and James Milroy Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model * Paul Kerswill and Ann Williams Mobility versus social class in dialect levelling: Evidence from new and old towns in England * Terttu Nevalainen Making the best of 'bad' data: Evidence for sociolinguistic variation in early modern English * Penelope Eckert Vowels and nail polish: The emergence of linguistic style in the preadolescent heterosexual marketplace * Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr 'Doing femininity' at work: More than just relational practice Part six: Gender Editors' introduction to part six * Niloofar Haeri A linguistic innovation of women in Cairo * Elinor Ochs Indexing gender * Scott Fabius Kiesling Power and the language of men * Rusty Barrett Markedness and styleswitching in performances by African American drag queens Notes on concept questions Index