Books in the Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics series

An account of general extenders ("or something", "and stuff", "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that these small phrases are not simply vague expressions, but have a powerful role in making interpersonal communication work.

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the Asian Pacific American (APA) population. Focusing on the analysis of interaction, contributors explore multiple facets of the APA experience, including language use in home, school, and community settings; media representations of APAs; codeswitching; and narratives of ethnic identity.

This volume of articles by sociolinguists working in the study of language variation today highlights a new direction, and critiques conventional wisdom in this growing and vital field of study. The volume is divided into four sections: methodology; place (the role of context); adult speech; and attitudes and ideologies.

An examination of various discourse genres, showing how choices among linguistic resources are mediated by self-expressive choices. Linguistic consistency across various situations is discussed with the question of how, if language is fundamentally idiosyncratic, people can understand one another.

Deborah Tannen has collected twelve published and unpublished essays on gender-related differences in conversational interactions. The essays comprise much of the research underlying Tannen's best-selling book You Just Don't Understand, and take a similar approach - anthropological and sociolinguistic rather than sociological or psychological.

Interpreting between languages is studied here as a discourse process and as about managing communication between two people who do not speak a common language. Roy examines and analyzes the turn exchanges of a face-to-face interpreted event.

This text discusses how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. It examines the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar, exploring how patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centred around political ideology.

This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on the topic of variation in language according to occasion of use, which is variously known as register, register variation, or style variation. It will be the first comprehensive treatment of the subject, and will not only draw attention to its importance but point the way to a unified approach to it.

This is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the complex relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. The contributors study a wide range of topics using various methodologies.

Bruthiaux examines the linguistic nature of classified advertising in English based on a broad corpus of advertisements. His study looks at variation in degree of syntactic elaboration and considers the role of conventionalization in this process.

This collection of essays offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on the skilful and varied ways in which young people of different ages, classes and ethnicities construct their world through language. There are contributions from sociolinguists, anthropologists and sociologists.

This is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the complex relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. The contributors study a wide range of topics using various methodologies.

This is the first analysis of the conversations that occur between breast cancer patients and their doctors. The work highlights the balance a doctor must strike between not guaranteeing a cure while promoting one particular treatment option.

The authors promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use.