Sociolinguistic Styles.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The Concept and Nature of Style -- Chapter 1 The Concept of Style -- 1.1. Style in Rhetoric -- 1.1.1. Ancient Greece -- 1.1.2. The Roman world -- 1.1.3. The Middle Ages and modern times -- 1.2. Style in Stylistics and Semiotics -- 1.2.1. Textualists -- 1.2.2. Contextualists -- 1.2.3. Recent Developments -- 1.3. Style in Sociolinguistics -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Nature of Style -- 2.1. The Linguistic Meaning of Style: Resources and Mechanisms -- 2.1.1. Style, Register and Diaphasic Variation -- 2.1.2. Style, Dialect and Accent -- 2.1.3. Style and Genre -- 2.1.4. Style, Register, Slang, Cant and Jargon -- 2.1.5. Stylistic Devices -- 2.1.6. Style and the Study of Language Change -- 2.2. The Social Meaning of Style: Motivations -- 2.2.1. Style and Identity -- 2.2.2. Style and Ideology -- Notes -- Part II Sociolinguistic Models of Style-Shifting -- Chapter 3 Situation-centered Approach: Attention Paid to Speech -- 3.1. Social Determinism and Positivism -- 3.1.1. Sociolinguistic Tenets -- 3.1.2. Sociolinguistic Patterns -- 3.2. The Formality Continuum -- 3.2.1. Casual Style -- 3.2.2. Formal Style -- 3.2.3. Passage Reading Style -- 3.2.4. Word List Style -- 3.2.5. Minimal Pairs Style -- 3.2.6. The Style Decision Tree -- 3.3. Audio-monitoring: The Universal Factor -- 3.3.1. The Principle of Graded Style-shifting -- 3.3.2. The Principle of Range of Variability -- 3.3.3. The Principle of Socio-stylistic Differentiation -- 3.3.4. The Principle of Sociolinguistic Stratification -- 3.3.5. The Principle of Stylistic Variation -- 3.3.6. The Principle of Attention -- 3.3.7. The Vernacular Principle -- 3.3.8. The Principle of Formality -- 3.4. Limitations -- Notes.

Chapter 4 Audience-centered Approach: Audience Design -- 4.1. Behaviorism and Social Psychological Theories -- 4.1.1. Language Attitudes -- 4.1.2. Social Identity Theory and the Linguistic Marketplace -- 4.1.3. Communication Accommodation Theory -- 4.2. Bakhtin and Dialogism -- 4.2.1. Centripetal and Centrifugal Language Forces -- 4.2.2. Heteroglossia and Multiple Voicing -- 4.2.3. Addressivity and Response -- 4.3. The Style Axiom: Audienceship and Responsiveness -- 4.3.1. Relational Activity -- 4.3.2. Sociolinguistic Marker -- 4.3.3. Responsiveness and Audienceship -- 4.3.4. Linguistic Repertoire -- 4.3.5. Style Axiom -- 4.3.6. Accommodative Competence -- 4.3.7. Discoursal Function -- 4.3.8. Initiative Axis -- 4.3.9. Referee Design -- 4.3.10. Field and Object of Study -- 4.4. Limitations -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Context-centered Approach: Functional Model -- 5.1. The Context of Situation and Contextualism -- 5.2. Systemic Functional Model of Language -- 5.3. Polylectal Grammar -- 5.4. The Register Axiom -- 5.5. Limitations -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Speaker-centered Approach: Speaker Design -- 6.1. Social Constructionism -- 6.1.1. Phenomenology -- 6.1.2. Relativism -- 6.2. Social Constructionist Sociolinguistics: Persona Management -- 6.2.1. Indexicality, Social Meaning and Enregisterment -- 6.2.2. Agency -- 6.2.3. Performativity, Stylization, and Identity Construction -- 6.2.4. Stance -- 6.2.5. Authenticity -- 6.2.6. Hyperdialectism vs. Hypervernacularization -- 6.2.7. Crossing -- 6.3. Limitations -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- note -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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