35.580, Books: Socio-syntax: Moore (2023)

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Date: 22-Dec-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Socio-syntax: Moore (2023)


Title: Socio-syntax
Subtitle: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781108843973

Author: Emma Moore
Abstract:

How do we adapt our grammar to communicate social detail? Do all
working class people have a local dialect or are we free to use
language in ways that transcend our place in the social hierarchy?
Seeking to answer these questions, this pioneering book is the first
to exclusively and extensively address the relationship between social
meaning and grammatical variation. It demonstrates how we use grammar
to communicate alignments and stances and to construct our social
style or social identity. Based on an ethnographic study of high
school girls in Northern England, it also uses the author's own
experiences as a working-class student, to argue for change in how we
conceive of grammar and how grammar is taught in schools. Lively and
engaging real life examples from the study are included throughout,
bringing to life new contributions to debates in variationist
sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropology.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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