Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk
Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk
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语料库和社会语言学：调查女性谈话中的年龄和性别
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2010
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Bróna Murphy
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Bróna Murphy
就研究文献而言，年龄是迄今为止最不发达的社会语言学变量。迄今为止，关于年龄的研究一直是零散的，通常集中在童年和青春期等生命的早期阶段，而在很大程度上忽视了健康的成年期，这是一个值得仔细研究的阶段。这本书通过对90，000字的爱尔兰英语年龄和性别差异口语语料库的探索，研究了成年人的话语，并解释了年龄和性别方面的社会语言学变化。这本书探讨了一些高频语用特征的分布和使用，这些特征在语料库中作为关键项目出现。本书的第一部分介绍了年龄作为社会语言学变量的理论概述，并描述了如何编制一个小型口语语料库进行社会语言学研究。第二部分包括五章，分别考察了禁忌语中模糊限制语、模糊范畴标记、加强语、助推语和高频项等主要特征与年龄、性别等变量的关系。这本书是感兴趣的本科生或研究生采取正式课程的社会语言学，应用语言学，语用学或话语分析。它也是感兴趣的学生和研究人员有兴趣在社会语言学研究中使用语料库语言学。
Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of high frequency pragmatic features of spoken discourse that appear as key items in the corpus. Part 1 of the book provides an introduction, a theoretical overview of age as a sociolinguistic variable and a description on how to compile a small spoken corpus for sociolinguistic research. Part 2 consists of five chapters which investigate and explore key features such as hedges, vague category markers, intensifiers, boosters and high-frequent items of taboo language in relation to the variables, age and gender. The book is of interest to undergraduates or postgraduates taking formal courses in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics or discourse analysis. It is also of interest to students and researchers interested in using corpus linguistics in sociolinguistic research.