An individual's social network is straightforwardly the aggregate of relationships contracted
with others, and social network analysis examines the differing structures and properties of …

In the multilingual centres of Northern Europe's major cities, new varieties of the host
languages are emerging. While some analyse these 'multiethnolects' as youth styles, we …

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics
can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist …

Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous,
interactional and social conversation. Variously termed'hedges','fumbles' and'conversational …

I have tried to capture these new developments in this new edition in two major ways. First,
the majority of the authors who contributed chapters to the first edition have revised and …

Corpus linguistics studies real-life language use on the basis of a text corpus, drawing on
both quantitative and qualitative text analysis techniques. This article seeks to bridge the …

This chapter evaluates the available evidence on the question of whether Outer Circle
varieties of English tend to be more syllable-timed than Inner Circle varieties. Although a …

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus
tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have greater access to data from around …

As discussed in Chapter 1, the term 'Cockney'is difficult to define and it has become
increasingly more difficult in an area which is now described as 'the world in a city'(Greater …

This chapter surveys morphosyntactic variation and change in the spoken English of
England. It begins by demonstrating how pervasive non-standard forms are in spoken …