| Language Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High Contributor(s): Eckert, Penelope (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631186034 ISBN-13: 9780631186038 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $153.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: "Linguistic Variation as Social Practice" is a study of the speech of the adolescent population of a midwestern high school, relating individuals' subtle patterns of pronunciation and grammar to participation in the peer social order. Based on two years of sociolinguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in one school, supplemented by shorter periods of fieldwork in three other schools, the study focuses on the polarized social categories, the "jocks" and the "burnouts," that dominate social organization in all of these schools. This book describes the social categories, networks, and practices that constitute the local adolescent social order, relates these to wider patterns in the urban-suburban area, and ultimately to wider societal patterns. "Linguistic Variation as Social Practice" is an ideal text for advanced students of sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 99022433 |
| Series: Language in Society |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.26" W x 9.28" (1.1 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population. |