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Studies in theory and method in sociolinguistics
PhD ThesisProblems raised in a pilot linguistic survey of a street in
Newcastle upon Tyne (Pellowe 1967) are here treated
positively. An informal normative model of the hearer's
treatment of the speaker's output is developed in terms both
of psychological processing and of social interpretation.
This model is then interpreted methodologically and used to
generate an analytical framework and a set of
mete-interpretive procedures. These are tested in various
ways on samples of speech from members of the Tyneside
speech community, on experimental groups of hearers and
speakers, and on various miscellaneous data. The generality,
replicability and accountability of the methods are
examined, and the consequences of the model and its
techniques are contrasted with those of other studies