Salience in Sociolinguistics: A Quantitative Approach
Salience in Sociolinguistics: A Quantitative Approach By Péter Rácz
2013 | 167 Pages | ISBN: 3110304325 | PDF | 3 MB
2013 | 167 Pages | ISBN: 3110304325 | PDF | 3 MB
This work proposes a definition of the notion of salience in sociolinguistics. Salient linguistic variants are those that are easily picked up by the listeners, and these stand in opposition to 'invisible' variants, which are, even if they also show complex social stratification, completely ignored. Taking a quantitative angle, this work sees salience as a function of relative frequency differences, giving it an empirically testable operationalisation.