Corpus and Sociolinguistics : Investigating age and gender in female talk.
Title:
Corpus and Sociolinguistics : Investigating age and gender in female talk.
Author:
Murphy, Bróna.
ISBN:
9789027288615
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1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents:
Corpus and Sociolinguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Why study adult talk? -- Chapter 1. Age as a sociolinguistic variable -- 1.1 Definition of age -- 1.2 Status of age -- 1.3 Etic and emic approaches to studying age and aging -- 1.4 Survey of research on age and language -- 1.4.1 Apparent time -- 1.4.2 Age-grading -- 1.4.3 Real time -- 1.4.4 Linguistic life-span perspective -- 1.5 Issues in age-related research -- 1.5.1 Subjects -- 1.5.2 Contexts of talk -- 1.6 Merits of a corpus-based approach to examining age and language -- Chapter 2. Contextualising age-related research -- 2.1 Discourse, sociolinguistics and variation -- 2.1.1 Discourse studies: Background -- 2.1.2 Discourse: A definition -- 2.1.3 Discourse studies in all-female talk -- 2.1.4 Discourse studies in all-male talk -- 2.2 Research and sociolinguistic variables -- 2.3 Language variety and language variation -- 2.4 Conversation analysis -- 2.5 Variational pragmatics -- 2.6 Sociolinguistic variables -- Chapter 3. How to build and use a corpus for age-related research -- 3.1 Corpus linguistics as a tool -- 3.2 Size of the corpus -- 3.3 Descriptive and interpretative issues -- 3.3.1 Observer's paradox -- 3.3.2 Difficulties: Accurately (re) capturing context in transcription -- 3.4 Selection criteria -- 3.5 Transcription issues -- 3.6 Description of the data -- 3.6.1 Collection -- 3.6.2 Methodological issues in the corpus -- 3.6.3 Participants in the corpus -- 3.6.4 Description of the corpus -- 3.7 Tools of investigation -- 3.7.1 Word frequency lists -- 3.7.2 Cluster analysis -- 3.7.3 Keyword search -- 3.7.4 Concordancing -- 3.8 Organisation of the book -- Chapter 4. Hedging -- 4.1 Vague language -- 4.2 Origins of hedging -- 4.3 Definition -- 4.4 Approaches.
4.4.1 Hedging and semantics -- 4.4.2 Hedging and pragmatics -- 4.5 Hedging and gender -- 4.6 Hedging forms in FAC -- 4.7 Examining hedging across the age groups -- 4.7.1 Conversation types in FAC 20s -- 4.7.2 Life stage and relationship in FAC 20s -- 4.7.3 Conversation types in FAC 40s -- 4.7.4 Life stage and relationship in FAC 40s -- 4.7.5 Conversation type in FAC 70s/80s -- 4.7.6 Life stage and relationship in FAC 70s/80s -- 4.8 Gender and hedging -- 4.9 Summary -- Chapter 5. Vague category markers -- 5.1 Forms of vague category markers -- 5.2 Functions of vague category markers -- 5.3 Vague category marker forms in FAC -- 5.4 Examining vague category markers across the age groups -- 5.4.1 "And everything" as a marker of FAC 70s/80s -- 5.4.2 "Or whatever" as a marker of FAC 70s/80s -- 5.4.3 "Or something" as a marker of FAC 20s -- 5.4.4 "Or something" in FAC 70s/80s -- 5.5 VCMs and gender -- 5.6 Summary -- Chapter 6. Amplifiers -- 6.1 Amplifiers: A definition -- 6.2 Role of amplifiers -- 6.2.1 Versatility and colour -- 6.2.2 Constant change -- 6.3 Amplifiers and gender -- 6.4 Amplifiers in FAC -- 6.5 Examining amplifiers across the age groups -- 6.5.1 "Very" and "really" as amplifiers in FAC 20s -- 6.5.2 "Very" and "really" as amplifiers in FAC 40s -- 6.5.3 "Very" and "really" as amplifiers in FAC 70s/80s -- 6.5.4 "So" as an amplifier in FAC 20s -- 6.5.5 "So" as an amplifier in FAC 40s -- 6.5.6 "So" as an amplifier in FAC 70s/80s -- 6.5.7 "Fucking"/ "fecking" as an amplifier in FAC 20s -- 6.6 Amplifiers and gender -- 6.7 Summary of amplifiers -- Chapter 7. Boosters -- 7.1 Boosters: A definition -- 7.2 Role of boosters -- 7.3 Boosters in FAC -- 7.4 Examining boosters across the age groups -- 7.4.1 "WILL" and "must" -- 7.4.2 FAC 20s -- 7.4.3 FAC 40s -- 7.4.4 FAC 70s/80s -- 7.5 "Absolutely" -- 7.5.1 FAC 20s -- 7.5.2 FAC 40s -- 7.5.3 FAC 70s/80s.
7.6 "Altogether" -- 7.6.1 FAC 20s -- 7.6.2 FAC 40s -- 7.6.3 FAC 70s/80s -- 7.7 "Alright" -- 7.7.1 FAC 20s -- 7.7.2 FAC 40s -- 7.7.3 FAC 70s/80s -- 7.8 "Completely" -- 7.8.1 FAC 20s -- 7.8.2 FAC 40s and FAC 70s/80s -- 7.9 "Definitely" -- 7.9.1 FAC 20s -- 7.9.2 FAC 40s and FAC 70s/80s -- 7.10 "Too": FAC 70s/80s -- 7.11 "At all": FAC 20s -- 7.11.2 "At all": FAC 70s/80s -- 7.12 Unmodified simple forms: FAC 70s/80s -- 7.13 Boosters and gender -- 7.14 Summary of boosters -- Chapter 8. Taboo language -- 8.1 Taboo language: Background -- 8.2 Approaches to taboo language -- 8.2.1 The sociolinguistic approach -- 8.3 Taboo language: A definition -- 8.3.1 Expletives -- 8.3.2 Religious taboo words -- 8.3.3 Abusives -- 8.3.4 Phatic uses of taboo language -- 8.4 Taboo language and women -- 8.5 Taboo language and age -- 8.6 Taboo language in FAC -- 8.6.1 Expletives -- 8.6.2 Religious references -- 8.6.3 Animal-related abusives -- 8.6.4 Intellectual abusive -- 8.6.5 Sex-related abusives -- 8.6.6 Homosexual abusives -- 8.7 Examining taboo language across the age groups -- 8.7.1 Expletives -- 8.7.2 Religious references -- 8.7.3 Original religious references -- 8.7.4 Animal-related abusives -- 8.7.5 Intellectual abusives -- 8.7.6 Sex-related abusives -- 8.7.7 Homosexual abusives -- 8.8 Summary -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
Abstract:
Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of high frequency pragmatic features of spoken discourse that appear as key items in the corpus. Part 1 of the book provides an introduction, a theoretical overview of age as a sociolinguistic variable and a description on how to compile a small spoken corpus for sociolinguistic research. Part 2 consists of five chapters which investigate and explore key features such as hedges, vague category markers, intensifiers, boosters and high-frequent items of taboo language in relation to the variables, age and gender. The book is of interest to undergraduates or postgraduates taking formal courses in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics or discourse analysis. It is also of interest to students and researchers interested in using corpus linguistics in sociolinguistic research.
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