Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method

Acknowledgments.

1. Language, Class and Community.

2. Obtaining Data in the Speech Community: Major Principles.

3. Studying Language in teh Community: The Fieldworker and the Social Network.

4. The Social Context of Speech Events.

5. The Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Data.

6. The Language of the Individual Speaker: Patterns of Variation and Network Structure.

7. Conclusions and Theoretical Implications.

Appendix.

References.

Index.