Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics

by Paul Baker

Book Overview

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 complement qualitative traditions of enquiry such as interactional sociolinguistics.This text covers a range of different topics within sociolinguistics: *Analysing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748627367
• ISBN13: 9780748627363
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"