哈德森社会语言定量的研究.pptVIP

By James and Lesley Milroy in Belfast Lesley Milroy, was accepted as a friend by the groups whose speech she studied, which made it unnecessary to use the formal interview technique. Two advantages: 1. To study genuinely casual speech that can observe the speakers in relaxed speech. 2. It opens new and exciting possibilities for the theoretical interpretation of sociolinguistic data. Milroy decided not to try to cover a complete spectrum of the socio-economic classes, but to exclude this dimension and concentrate on the speech of working-class people in Belfast. The differences in employment patterns is highly relevant to speech differences. The friend of a friend– a well-recognized status in this community, which confers a status almost equivalent to that of a member of family. Building and maintaining a large number of friendships makes heavy demands on a researcher’s time and energy. As a result of Milroy’s efforts, she became accepted as a friend who could “drop in” at certain houses at any time. She made many recordings, identifying variants of a predetermined list of variables, and comparing their frequencies across texts. These findings contribute to the investigation of the social network structure on speech. Network Strength Score (Hudson：190） NSS Density Multiplexity Researcher: Nikolas Coupland Place: Cardiff, Wales Question: Do we speak differently to different people? Accommodation Theory Aim: To test the prediction by finding a situation in which one person spoke to a wide variety of people, of different types and speaking in different ways. Speaker chosen: Sue (an assistant in a travel agency) Aim: To test the prediction by finding a situation in which one person spoke to a wide variety of people, of different types and speaking in different ways. Speaker chosen: Sue (an assistant in a travel agency) Procedure: 1) A microphone was located in front o