The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics is the definitive guide to sociophonetics. Offering a practical and accessible survey of an unparalleled range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, this is the first handbook devoted to sociophonetic research and applications of sociophonetics within and beyond linguistics. It defines what sociophonetics is as a field and offers views of what sociophonetics might become. Split into three sections, this book:
• examines the suprasegmental, segmental, and subsegmental units that sociophoneticians study;
• reveals the ways that sociophoneticians create knowledge and solve problems across a range of theoretical and practical applications;
• explores sociophonetic traditions around the world in spoken and signed languages;
• includes case studies that demonstrate sociophonetic research in action, which will support and inspire readers to conduct their own projects.
This handbook is an indispensable resource for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students in sociophonetics, as well as researchers and students in sociolinguistics, phonetics, phonology, language variation and change, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech pathology, and language teaching—and indeed any area of study where phonetics and phonology interact with social factors and forces.
Contributors
Overview
1 Sociophonetics and the sociolinguistic- phonetic interface: a radical introduction
Christopher Strelluf
SECTION 1
Units of analysis
2 Sociophonetics and intonation: a proposal for socioprosodics
Erin O’Rourke and Mary Baltazani
3 Sociophonetics and speech rate and pause
Tyler Kendall
4 Sociophonetics and tone: the world of sociotonetics
James N. Stanford and Cathryn Yang
5 Sociophonetics and phonation
Lisa Davidson
6 Sociophonetics and vowels
Felicity Cox and Gerard Docherty
7 Sociophonetics and stops
Eleanor Chodroff and Paul Foulkes
8 Sociophonetics and fricatives
Whitney Chappell, Christina García, and Justin Davidson
9 Sociophonetics and rhotics
Koen Sebregts, Roeland van Hout, and Hans Van de Velde
10 Sociophonetics and laterals
Danielle Turton
11 Sociophonetics and vowel nasality
Christopher Carignan and Georgia Zellou
SECTION 2
Applications
12 Sociophonetics and dialectology
Dominic Watt, Margaret E.L. Renwick, and Joseph A. Stanley
13 Sociophonetics and sound change
Charles Boberg
14 Sociophonetics and identity
Erez Levon and Stamatina Katsiveli
15 Sociophonetics and psycholinguistics
Paul Warren
16 Sociophonetics and language prejudice: Accent matters: a socio- psychological perspective on sociophonetics
Marta Witkowska, Silvia Filippi, Magdalena Formanowicz, and Caterina Suitner
17 Sociophonetics and oral history
Silvia Calamai
18 Sociophonetics and language documentation and revitalization
Marianna Di Paolo
19 Sociophonetics and multilingualism
Bronwen G. Evans and Gisela Tomé Lourido
20 Sociophonetics and second language acquisition
Ksenia Gnevsheva
21 Sociophonetics and speech- language pathology
Toby Macrae and Margaret Maclagan
SECTION 3
Sociophonetics around the world
22 Sociophonetics and signed languages
Amelia A. Becker, Julie A. Hochgesang, Meredith Tamminga, and Jami N. Fisher
23 Sociophonetics and South African studies: focus on ethnicity
Rajend Mesthrie, Alida Chevalier, Yolandi Ribbens- Klein, Tracey Toefy, and Bruce Wileman
24 Sociophonetics and Japanese
Kenjirō Matsuda, Shoji Takano, Yoshiyuki Asahi, and Ichiro Ota
25 Sociophonetics and French
Aurélie Nardy and Maria Candea
26 Sociophonetics and Arabic
Ghada Khattab and Paul Foulkes
27 Sociophonetics and Spanishes
Scott Sadowsky
28 Sociophonetics and Chinese
Jingwei Zhang, Weijie Tan, and Christopher Strelluf
Biography
Christopher Strelluf is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Warwick. His research interests include sociophonetics, language variation and change, and dialectology.
Editorial Board
John H. Esling, University of Victoria, Canada
Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, UK
Meghan Sumner, Stanford University, USA
Erik R. Thomas, North Carolina State University, USA
The Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics covers the field comprehensively. Each chapter contains an extensive literature review and an example of empirical research on its topic. These features make this book an essential reference for anyone embarking on sociophonetic research of any kind.
Erik R. Thomas, North Carolina State University, USA
