Research Catalog

Title

Investigating variation : the effects of social organization and social setting / Nancy C. Dorian.

Author

Dorian, Nancy C.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xxii, 350 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Linguistic variation has mostly been studied in communities that conform to certain forms of social organization. This book explores variation in small enclaves of non-dominant languages such a fishing communities in Gaelic speaking Scotland.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.

Subject

• Scottish Gaelic language > Dialects > Scotland > Sutherland
• Scottish Gaelic language > Variation
• Scottish Gaelic language > Social aspects
• Fishers > Scotland > Sutherland > Language

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The variation puzzle -- The East Sutherland fishing communities -- Dimensions of linguistic variation in a socioeconomically homogeneous population -- A general introduction to speakers and variables -- A close look at some Embo variables and their use -- Kin groups, peer groups, and variation -- Speech norms, accommodation, and speaking well in Gaelic Embo -- Socially neutral linguistic variation: where, why, what for, and how?

ISBN

• 9780195385939 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 0195385934 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 9780195385922 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0195385926 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2008046388

OCLC

• 269455510
• SCSB-10999835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library