Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics / Paul Baker.

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist sociolinguistics a quantitative approach to the study of variation or differences between populations. It may also comple...

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Main Author: Baker, Paul, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Series:Edinburgh sociolinguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Corpora and sociolinguistic variation; 3 Diachronic variation; 4 Synchronic variation; 5 Corpora and interpersonal communication; 6 Uncovering discourses; 7 Conclusion; References; Appendix; Notes; Index.