List of figures and tables |
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Preface and acknowledgements |
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Transcription conventions |
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1. Introduction |
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1.2 Variationism in sociolinguistics |
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1.3 Style in sociolinguistics and in stylistics |
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1.5 Methods and data for researching sociolinguistic style |
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1.6 Style in late-modernity |
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2. Style and meaning in sociolinguistic structure |
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2.1 Stylistic stratification |
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2.2 Limits of the stratification model for style |
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2.3 'Standard' and 'non-standard' |
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2.4 Non-standard' speech as 'deviation' |
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2.5 Social structure and social practice |
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3. Style for audiences |
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3.1 Talking heads versus social interaction |
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3.3 Communication accommodation theory |
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3.4 Some studies of audience design and speech accommodation |
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3.5 Limits of audience-focused perspectives |
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4. Sociolinguistic resources for styling |
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4.2 The ideological basis of variation |
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4.3 Habitus and semantic style |
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4.4 Language attitudes and meanings for variation |
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4.5 Metalanguage, critical distance and performativity |
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4.6 Sociolinguistic resources? |
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5. Styling social identities |
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5.1 Social identity, culture and discourse |
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5.3 Identity contextualisation processes |
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5.4 Framing social class in the travel agency |
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5.7 Indexing gender and sexuality |
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6. High performance and identity stylisation |
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6.1 Theorising high performance |
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6.4 Voicing political antagonism - Nye |
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6.5 Drag and cross-dressing performances |
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7. Coda: Style and social reality |
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7.2 The authentic speaker |
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7.3 The media(tisa)tion of style |
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References |
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Index |
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