Hi,
I've suddenly discovered that my thesis needs a huge injection of sociolinguistics to pull it together. Can anybody recommend (a) an accessible overview of the field, prefereably written in the last 5 years, and
Susan Herring has a piece on discourse analysis of online interaction in the Handbook of Discourse Analysis (edited I think by Debra Schifrin, which I have just mis-spelled) that is a must-read overview. There's probably other good sociolinguistics overviews that aren't about online interaction in there too.
(b) anything that's a "must read" on linguistic communities?
Lynn Cherny's book _Conversation and Community_ and, immodestly, my own book _Tune In, Log On_, is not without relevance. Both Lynn and I rely on the concept of "speech community" and its associated methodologies. Lynn's is more explicitly 'linguistics.' For some non-internet deep background on sociolinguistics, Dell Hymes and John Gumperz have one classic anthology, and Richard Baumann and Joel Sherzer co-edited the other. Their titles escape me.
I've been doing a part/obs case study of an internet community, so anything with specific reference to linguistic sommunities in that kind of context would be particularly useful.
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