Tyne Bytes: A Computerised Sociolinguistic Study of Tyneside

By Val Jones-Sargent

The relationships between language variation and social structure within an urban community are far too complex to be adequately handled by traditional methods. The Tyneside Linguistic Survey offers a radical approach to sociolinguistic modelling, using multi-variate techniques. Linguistic and social clusters are discovered within a sample of Tyneside speakers by generating classifications based on a wide range of linguistic and social variables. In this study Dr. Jones-Sargent lucidly presents the background and philosophy of the TLS, the implementation of the computer model and an analysis of the results.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3820476555
• ISBN13: 9783820476552
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 374 Pages