Sociolinguistic Styles (eBook)

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).

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

PART I: THE CONCEPT AND NATURE OF STYLE

1. The Concept of Style

1.1 Style in Rhetoric

1.1.1. Ancient Greece

1.1.2. The Roman World

1.1.3. Middle Ages and Modern Times

1.2. Style in Stylistics and Semiotics

1.2.1. Textualists: Formalist Stylistics

1.2.2. Contextualists: Functionalist Stylistics

1.2.3. Recent Developments

1.3. Style in Sociolinguistics

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

II.2.1. Style and Identity

II.2.2. Style and Ideology

PART II: SOCIOLINGUISTIC MODELS OF STYLE-SHIFTING

3. Situation-centred 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

4. Audience-centred Approach: Audience Design

4.1. Behaviourism and Social Psychological Theories

4.1.1. Language Attitudes

4.1.2. Social Identity Theory and Linguistic Marketplace

4.1.3. Communication Accommodation Theory

4.2. Bakhtin and Dialogism

4.2.1. Centripetal and Centrifugal 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

5. Context-centred Approach: Functional Model

5.1. Contextualism and the Context of Situation

5.2. Systemic Functional Model of Language

5.3. Polylectal Grammar

5.4. The Register Axiom

5.5. Limitations

6. Speaker-centred 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, Stylisation and Identity Construction

6.2.4. Stance

6.2.5. Authenticity

6.2.6. Hyperdialectism vs. Hyper-vernacularisation

6.2.7. Crossing

6.3. Limitations

7. Conclusion

References

Index