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Sociolinguistic Styles

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Sociolinguistic Styles offers a comprehensive and historically grounded exploration of style-shifting within sociolinguistic variation. Authored by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, an internationally recognised expert, the book delves into the nature, social motivations, and mechanisms behind style-shifting, as well as its effects. It presents an up-to-date critical overview of theoretical approaches, tracing their origins from classical rhetoric and oratory to contemporary concepts such as enregisterment and stylistic variation.
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"Sociolinguistic Styles systematically examines the complex phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistics, focusing on its nature and social motivations, as well as on the mechanisms for its usage and its effects"--

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Sociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted overview of the phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field, the text explores why, where and when it occurs.

Full examination of the complex phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistics, focusing on its nature and social motivations, as well as on the mechanisms for its usage and its effects.

In-depth, up-to-date critical overview of the different theoretical approaches accounting for stylistic variation, exploring their historical roots not only in sociolinguistics and stylistics or semiotics but also in classical fields such as rhetoric and oratory.

Coverage of a wide range of related concepts and issues, from the oldest Greek ethos and pathos or Roman elocutio and pronuntiatio to the contemporary enregisterment, stylisation, stance, or crossing.

Written by an academic who has been instrumental in developing theory in this area of sociolinguistics.

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    Sociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted overview of the phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field, the text explores why, where and when it occurs. Full examination of the complex phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistics, focusing on its nature and social motivations, as well as on the mechanisms for...
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Book Details

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ISBN: 9781119555438

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 December 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Juan M. Hernández-Campoy is Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain. His books include Style-Shifting in Public (with J.A. Cutillas-Espinosa, 2012), Diccionario de Sociolingüística (with P. Trudgill, 2007), Metodología de la Investigación Sociolingüística (with M. Almeida, 2005), and??Geolingüística (1999). He is the co-editor with J.C. Conde-Silvestre of The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

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