{"product_id":"language-variation-as-social-practice-9780631186038","title":"Language Variation as Social Practice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on two years of sociolinguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in one school, supplemented by shorter periods of fieldwork in three other schools, this study focuses on the polarized social categories, the 'jocks' and the 'burnouts', that dominate social organization in all of these schools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This long-awaited volume demonstrates that Eckert is the sociolinguist. No other student of language and society comes close to Eckert in providing social explanations for linguistic behavior and no other study has probed so deeply the social motivation of sound change. Eckert's unique combination of ethnographic practice and sophisticated quantitative analyses will be the target to emulate for many decades to come.\" \u003ci\u003eBill Labov, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Penelope Eckert's work provides a fine ethnographic account of the social organization and social practices of a varied set of Detroit adolescents. At the same time, she builds in a much-needed critique of current sociolinguistic work on the relationship between language variation and social constructs such as class and gender. The work as a whole is an excellent and readable synthesis, representing the current state of the art in sociolinguistics.\" \u003ci\u003eLesley Milroy, University of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Nobody combines the insights of ethnographic study and variation analysis more creatively than Eckert. She invariably connects systematic language variation with the complexities of social practice in a way that challenges our reified interpretations of sociolinguistic behavior.\" \u003ci\u003eWalt Wolfram, North Carolina State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eckert has provided us with an array of priceless information on the local social matrix in which change takes place. If we are not ready to answer every question that might be posed about linguistic change, the first step is to master the rich store of information and insight that she has given us, and to plan our future research with this in mind.\" \u003ci\u003eLanguage in Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures. \u003cp\u003eList of Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Variation and Agency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterpreting the Meaning of Variation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Social Order of Belten High.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociolinguistic Research in the School.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vocalic Variables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutline of Variation in Belten High.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe Are What We Do.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendships, Networks, and Communities of Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStyle, Social Meaning, and Sound Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403397013847,"sku":"9780631186038","price":107.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631186038.jpg?v=1730483341","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/language-variation-as-social-practice-9780631186038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}