Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics

<p><i>Corpus Linguistics for Sociolinguistics</i> is an accessible and practical introduction to how corpus linguistics can be used to study language variation and change.</p><p>This book introduces sociolinguistic concepts sociolinguistic theory and up-to-date research from key areas of variation and change including age gender style varieties language online language and the media historical change and diachronic variation and explores them from a corpus linguistics perspective. Further the book illustrates the basics of corpus-linguistic methods and demonstrates the use of a vast range of freely available corpora suited to the study of sociolinguistic variation and change.</p><p>With its in-chapter exercises and discussion questions and online supplementary resources this text is key reading for students and researchers of corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics.</p>