LINGUIST List 22.515 Sat Jan 29 2011 Books: Socioling/Phonetics/Phonology: Preston, Niedzielski (Eds) Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Julia Ulrich , A Reader in Sociophonetics: Preston, Niedzielski (Eds) Message 1: A Reader in Sociophonetics: Preston, Niedzielski (Eds) Date: 27-Jan-2011 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: A Reader in Sociophonetics: Preston, Niedzielski (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: A Reader in Sociophonetics Series Title: Mouton Reader Published: 2011 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?isbn=978-1-934078-05-1 Editor: Dennis R. Preston Editor: Nancy Niedzielski Electronic: ISBN: 9781934078068 Pages: 426 Price: Europe EURO Comment: Price upon request. Hardback: ISBN: 9781934078044 Pages: 426 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9781934078051 Pages: 426 Price: Europe EURO 34.95 Abstract: Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text. Now available in paperback! Sociophonetics is one of the sub-branches of the discipline that has attracted a great deal of attention over the last decade. Recent advances in speech science and their technological simulations allow increasingly sophisticated studies of the progress of language contact and change. These studies, particularly those at the level of pronunciation, show that language variety is robust and socially embedded in interesting ways. Instrumental studies of language variety contact and change have focused on the role of social categories and attitudes in variety perception as well as production. Some of the studies presented in this volume look at the specific role of social factors in the formation, progress, and deterrence of intralingual contact and change; while others look at the ways in which social identities and beliefs influence a listener's ability to identify and comprehend varieties. These studies use detailed acoustic analyses of production speech data and of responses to samples of data based on such analyses. Although the book assumes some knowledge of basic acoustics and variationist studies, the general introduction plus chapter and section introductions provide a review of practices in the field, including those of collection, analysis, and interpretation. Key features: * Can be used as a supplementary text or main text in graduate level courses in sociophonetics * A timely volume on phonetics and phonology, which brings together studies that combine elements of production and perception * Well organized volume of readings in vowel studies, prosody, phonological or social theory Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Phonetics                             Phonology                             Sociolinguistics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52866 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Page Updated: 29-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.