Socio-Historical Linguistics: Its Status and Methodology

ISBN: 9780521112338 出版年：1982 页码：329 Suzanne Romaine Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Methodology and aims 2. Methods for a sociolinguistic study of historical syntax 3. The history of the relative clause/markers in English with special reference to Middle Scots 4. The linguistic variable 5. The extralinguistic variables: methods for the reconstruction of language in its social context 6. Analysis of the data by two sociolinguistic techniques: cross-product analysis and implicational scaling 7. Variable rule analysis of the data 8. The bearing of sociolinguistic data on linguistic hypotheses 9. On the epistemological status of sociolinguistic theory Bibliography Index.