Style: Language Variation and Identity

Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore refers to the wide range of strategic actions and performances that speakers engage in, to construct themselves and their social lives. Coupland draws on and integrates a wide variety of contemporary sociolinguistic research as well as his own extensive research in this field. The emphasis is on how social meanings are made locally, in specific relationships, genres, groups and cultures, and on studying language variation as part of the analysis of spoken discourse.

List of figures and tables	p. vii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. ix
Transcription conventions	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Locating 'style'	p. 1
Variationism in sociolinguistics	p. 4
Style in sociolinguistics and in stylistics	p. 9
Social meaning	p. 18
Methods and data for researching sociolinguistic style	p. 24
Style in late-modernity	p. 29
Later chapters	p. 33
Style and meaning in sociolinguistic structure	p. 32
Stylistic stratification	p. 32
Limits of the stratification model for style	p. 37
'Standard' and 'non-standard'	p. 42
'Non-standard' speech as 'deviation'	p. 45
Social structure and social practice	p. 47
Style for audiences	p. 54
Talking heads versus social interaction	p. 54
Audience design	p. 58
Communication accommodation theory	p. 62
Some studies of audience design and speech accommodation	p. 64
Limits of audience-focused perspectives	p. 74
Sociolinguistic resources for styling	p. 82
Speech repertoires	p. 82
The ideological basis of variation	p. 85
Habitus and semantic style	p. 89
Language attitudes and meanings for variation	p. 93
Metalanguage, critical distance and performativity	p. 99
Sociolinguistic resources?	p. 103
Styling social identities	p. 106
Social identity, culture and discourse	p. 306
Acts of identity	p. 108
Identity contextualisation processes	p. 111
Framing social class in the travel agency	p. 115
Styling place	p. 121
Voicing ethnicities	p. 126
Indexing gender and sexuality	p. 132
Crossing	p. 137
Omissions	p. 145
High performance and identity stylisation	p. 146
Theorising high performance	p. 146
Stylisation	p. 149
Decontextualisation	p. 155
Voicing political antagonism - Nye	p. 156
Drag and cross-dressing performances	p. 163
Exposed dialects	p. 171
Coda: Style and social reality	p. 177
Change within change	p. 177
The authentic speaker	p. 180
The media(tisa)tion of style	p. 184
References	p. 189
Index	p. 206
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