Salience in Sociolinguistics : : A Quantitative Approach / / Péter Rácz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Rácz, Péter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 84
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; 1. Preliminaries --; 2. Defining Salience --; 3. Methodology --; 4. Definite Article Reduction --; 5. Glottalisation in the South of England --; 6. Hiatus resolution in Hungarian --; 7. Derhoticisation in Glasgow --; 8. Salience and models of the lexicon --; 9. Salience and language change --; 10. Conclusions --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110305395; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110305395
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Péter Rácz.

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.