Salience in Sociolinguistics
A Quantitative Approach| By: | Péter Rácz |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110304329 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110305395 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.