Socio-syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1 Why Does the Social Meaning of Grammar Matter?
	1.1 What Is Grammatical Variation?
	1.2 How Will This Book Examine the Relationship between Grammar and Social Meaning?
2 The Social Landscape of Midlan High
	2.1 Situating Midlan High
	2.2 Places and Spaces within Midlan High
	2.3 The Process of Ethnography
	2.4 The Social Groups at Midlan High
	2.5 Reflections and Limitations
3 How Do We Study the Social Meaning of Grammatical Variation?
	3.1 Interpreting Social Meaning
	3.2 Grammatical Variants and the Development of Social Meaning
	3.3 Types of Grammatical Variant and Types of Social Meaning
	3.4 Investigating the Social Meaning of Grammar
	3.5 Establishing Sociolinguistic Meaning
4 How Free Are We to Vary the Grammar We Use?
	4.1 Children and the Acquisition of Local Dialects
	4.2 Children, Peers and School
	4.3 Levelled Were at Midlan High
	4.4 What Constrains Our Use of Grammatical Variation?
5 How Do We Use Grammar to Design Our Talk?
	5.1 The Semantics of Negative Concord
	5.2 Negative Concord at Midlan High
	5.3 The Discourse Context of Negative Concord
	5.4 The Social Meaning of Negative Concord
	5.5 Highly Stigmatised Grammar, Pragmatics and Social Association
6 Does Everyone Use Grammar to Make Social Meaning?
	6.1 What Types of Right Dislocation Are Possible?
	6.2 What Are the Functions of Right Dislocation?
	6.3 How Were Right-dislocated Tags Analysed?
	6.4 How Are Right-dislocated Tags Distributed at Midlan High?
	6.5 How Are Personal Pronoun Tags Distributed at Midlan High?
	6.6 The Social and Interactional Functions of Right Dislocation
	6.7 What Is the Relationship between Form, Frequency and Function?
	6.8 Syntactic Variables, Semantics and Social Meaning
7 How Does Grammar Combine with Other Elements of Language?
	7.1 The Tag Questions Dataset
	7.2 How Are Tag Questions Distributed at Midlan High?
	7.3 How Do Tag Questions Vary at the Discourse Level?
	7.4 How Do Tag Questions Vary in Their Linguistic Content?
	7.5 Summary: How Do Tag Questions Vary?
	7.6 Tag Questions and Social Meaning
	7.7 Do Tag Questions Have Character-type Social Meanings?
8 What Does It Mean to View Grammar as a Fluid, Flexible Social Resource?
	8.1 What Are the Key Findings of This Study?
	8.2 What Are the Wider Implications of Foregrounding the Social Meanings of Grammar?
	8.3 The Educational Consequence of Recognising the Social Meaning of Grammar
	8.4 Final Words
References
Index