Natalie Schilling has a fine book out on "Sociolinguistic Fieldwork." You
might look chapter 4: Designing research on style.
Ref = Schilling, Natalie. 2013. Sociolinguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge
University Press.
On Fri, August 22, 2014 12:41 pm, Angus B. Grieve-Smith wrote:
> There are in fact several dimensions of situational variation:
> formal/informal, high/low class, dialogue/monologue, planned/unplanned,
> and more.
>
> Here are the references for my 2001 comprehensive exam in
> situational variation. I would particularly recommend Ochs 1979 on the
> planned/unplanned dimension, and Irvine 1979 on formal/informal. There
> may well have been more useful readings published since 2001, but note
> that the only thing on my list /less/ recent than Labov 1972 is Labov
> 1966. I also don't have anything on speech errors, but bear in mind
> that sometimes one person's speech error is another's
> socially-determined variant.
>
> Hope this helps! If anyone needs a copy of one of these papers,
> let me know.
>
> Biber, Douglas.1988.Variation across speech and writing.Cambridge:
> Cambridge University Press.
>
> Chafe, Wallace L.1982.Integration and involvement in speaking, writing
> and oral literature.In Tannen (1982b), pages 35-53.
>
> Ferguson, Charles A.1959 [1971].Diglossia.Reprinted in Anwar S. Dil, ed.
> Language structure and language use: Essays by Charles A. Ferguson,
> pages 1-26.Stanford: Stanford University Press.
>
> Fleischman, Suzanne.1997.Methodologies and ideologies in historical
> linguistics: On working with older languages.In Herring, van Reenen and
> Schøsler (1997b), pages 33-58.
>
> Geluykens, Ronald.1992.From discourse process to grammatical
> construction: On left-dislocation in English.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
>
> Givón, Talmy.1979a.From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing
> strategy.In Givón (1979b), pages 81-112.
>
> Givón, Talmy, ed.1979b.Syntax and Semantics 12: Discourse and syntax.New
> York: Academic Press.
>
> Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen, and Lene Schøsler.1997a.On textual
> parameters and older languages.In Herring, van Reenen and Schøsler
> (1997b), pages 1-32.
>
> Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen, and Lene Schøsler,
> eds.1997b.Textual parameters in older languages.Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
>
> Hirsch, E. D., Jr. 1987.Cultural literacy: What every American needs to
> know.Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
>
> Hudson, Alan.1994.Diglossia as a special case of register variation.In
> Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan, eds. Sociolinguistic perspectives on
> register, pages 294-314.New York: Oxford University Press.
>
> Irvine, Judith T.1979 [1984].Formality and informality in communicative
> events.Reprinted in John Baugh and Joel Sherzer, eds. Language in use:
> Readings in sociolinguistics, pages 211-228.Englewood Cliffs:
> Prentice-Hall.
>
> Joseph, John Earl.1987.Eloquence and power: The rise of language
> standards and standard languages.New York: Basil Blackwell.
>
> Kay, Paul.1977.Language evolution and speech style.In Ben G. Blount and
> Mary Sanches, eds. Sociocultural dimensions of language change, pages
> 21-33.New York: Academic Press.
>
> Labov, William.1966.The social stratification of English in New York
> City.Washington: Center for Applied Linguistics.
>
> Lakoff, Robin Tolmach.1982.Some of my favorite writers are literate: The
> mingling of oral and literate strategies in written communication.In
> Tannen (1982b), pages 239-260.
>
> Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson.1982.The gulf between spoken and
> written language: A case study in Chinese.In Tannen (1982b), pages 77-88.
>
> Ochs, Elinor.1979.Planned and unplanned discourse.In Givón (1979), pages
> 51-80.
>
> Pawley, Andrew, and Frances Hodgetts Syder.1983.Natural selection in
> syntax: Notes on adaptive variation and change in vernacular and
> literary grammar.Journal of Pragmatics 7: 551-579.
>
> Tannen, Deborah.1982a.The oral/literate continuum in discourse.In Tannen
> (1982b), pages 1-16.
>
> Tannen, Deborah, ed.1982b.Spoken and written language: Exploring orality
> and literacy.Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
>
>
>
>
> On 8/22/2014 2:51 AM, John Mansfield wrote:
>> I've been asked to run a discussion on some aspect of variation for a
>> group mostly descriptive field linguists. I can set them one or two
>> readings, and what I'd like to discuss is the status of different
>> types of speech they might record. I'm thinking in particular of
>> casual vs careful speech, or self-monitored speech, "the vernacular"
>> if anyone still believes in that, etc etc. How should they approach
>> these different speech types when trying to analyse the grammar of a
>> language? What can they set aside as a speech error, and what is worth
>> documenting as a variable?
>>
>> The main reading I have in mind for this is Labov (1972), "Some
>> principles of linguistic methodology", but can anyone suggest
>> something more recent on the topic?
>>
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