From sociolinguistic variation to socially strategic stylisation
Snell, J · White Rose Research Online
This article investigates the indexical relation between language, interactional stance and social class. Quantitative sociolinguistic analysis of a linguistic variable (the first person possessive singular) is combined with micro-ethnographic analysis of the way one particular variant, possessive ‘me’ (e.g. Me pencil’s up me jumper), is used by speakers in …