An introduction to sociolinguistics

By Ronald Wardhaugh. 1987

Subfields: Linguistics

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1. A. Weatherall
2. Richard Xiao
3. Vijay Kumar
4. Diyi Yang
5. Hongyin Tao
6. Xiufang Xia
7. E. Stracke
8. R. Major

Citations in the corpus

• On Speech Acts (2021, unknown): “Austin (1962, 150-163) differentiates verdictives, exercitives, commissives, and behabitives, and expositives (see also Wardhaugh, 1986, 276-277).”
• Gender Differences in Using Language (2013, background): “Fishman (1980) collected many couples‟ conversation tapes, and he found that women used three times of tag questions as men did.”
• A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Study of Amplifiers in British English (2007, background): “In the tradition established by Lakoff (1975) and followed by Holmes (2001) and many others, amplifiers and hedges, together with polite forms, hesitations, disclaimers, empty adjectives, tag questions, and hypercorrect grammar, are indicators of tentativeness and hesitancy, which characterize a…”
• Gender and stylistic variation in second language phonology (2004, background): “…more prestige forms than males include studies on American English (Eckert, 1996; Labov, 1966, 1972; Luthin, 1987), Arabic (Haeri, 1987), British English (Trudgill, 1984), Chukchi (cited in Wardhaugh, 2001), Gross Ventre (cited in Wardhaugh, 2001), Koasati (Haas, 1944), and Spanish (Rissel, 1989).”