1st Edition
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English
Foreword: The Cinderella of sociolinguistics – Joan C. Beal
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: An overview of sociolinguistic approaches to lexical variation in English
Rhys J. Sandow and Natalie Braber
Section I: Dialectology
2. A socio-geographical investigation of lexical variability in England: Evidence from the English Dialects App
David Britain, Tamsin Blaxter and Adrian Leemann
3. Lexical variation among mobile speakers: A case study of words for bread in the United Kingdom
George Bailey, Laurel MacKenzie and Danielle Turton
4. Welsh-English social-media lexicon in comparative context: Adjectives of positive evaluation and terms of address
David Willis
5. Lexical variation in Irish English
Raymond Hickey
6. ‘Pit talk’ of UK coal miners – a comparative study
Natalie Braber and John Bellamy
Section II: Corpus linguistics
7. Lexico-grammatical variation in spoken British English corpora
Robbie Love and Nele Põldvere
8. Light verbs on the contact continuum
Gabriel Ozón and Melanie Green
9. The social conditioning of lexical items for man in British English: The demise of man and the rise of guy
James M. Stratton
10. Conceptual variation: Gendered differences in the lexicalization of the concept of COMMODITY in environmental narratives
Justyna A. Robinson, Rhys J. Sandow and Albertus Andito
11. ‘Our speech defines us’: The language of Caribbean female prime ministers
Guyanne Wilson
Section III: Social meaning
12. Bare social meanings: The production and perception of the quantifier bare
Rhys J. Sandow, Christian Ilbury, George Bailey, and Natalie Braber
13. A word in a word: Social perceptions of expletive infixation
Matthew Hunt and Linnaea Stockall
14. ‘Well first of all, you spelled sus wrong’: Epistemic authority and the social negotiation of ‘slang’
Teresa Pratt
15. Disenregistering dude: Shifts in familiarizing vocative meaning and use in American English
Scott F. Kiesling and Soobin Choi
16. ‘TikTok Slang’: Lexical variation and change in social media
Christian Ilbury
17. Perspectives on lexical variation of English in Vietnam
John Bellamy and Mai Xuan Nhat Chi Nguyen
Biography
Rhys J. Sandow is a senior research associate at Concept Analytics Lab, University of Sussex, UK
Natalie Braber is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
