Cara Penry Williams

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Penry Williams' book presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society. Utilising folklinguistic accounts, it uncovers everyday understandings of contemporary Australian English through variations across linguistic systems (sounds, words, discourse and grammar).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781032089485
• ISBN-10: 1032089482
• Artikelnr.: 62150533

Autorenporträt

Cara Penry Williams has a master's degree in applied linguistics and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne. After many years of teaching and researching at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, she is now a Lecturer in English Language at University of Derby in the UK and an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Conceptualising social meaning 3. Studying social
meaning via folklinguistics 4. Phonetic and phonological variation 5.
Lexical variation 6. Discourse and grammatical variation 7. Social types
and language ideologies