Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 1987-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521317634
This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 9780864862808
Author : Mr Dick Leith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134711441
A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism, the issues of language maintenance and language loyalty, and linguistic variation. This new edition has been fully revised. Additions include: * new material about 'New Englishes' across the world * a new chapter entitled 'A Critical Linguistic History of English Texts' * a discussion of problems involved in writing a history of English All terms and concepts are explained as they are introduced, and linguistic examples are chosen for their accessibility and intelligibility to the general reader. It will be of interest to students of Sociolinguistics, English Language, History and Cultural Studies.
Author : Len W. Lanham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3872762109
This study of the South African variety of English is an exercise in the sociology of language conducted mainly within the conceptual framework and methodology created by William Labov. It accepts that social process and social structure are reflected in patterns of covariation involving linguistic and social variables, and in attitudes to different varieties of speech within the community. This premise is pursued here in its historical implications: linguistuic evidence in present-day speech patterns of earlier states of the society and of the social, political and cultural changes that have brought about the present state. The second main focus in this volume is directed at the concept of standard variety, that is the social attributes and functions of a formal speech pattern for which the status of standard might be claimed.
Author : Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 9781572738256
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching interests are in language and social interaction, ethnography of communication, intercultural communication, semiotics, communication theory, childhood socialization, and history of the discipline. Her major publications include the books Communication in Everyday Life (Ablex), Semiotics and Communication, and Wedding as Text (Erlbaum), and the edited collections Social Approaches to Communication (Guilford), From Generation to Generation and Socially Constructing Communication (Hampton). --Book Jacket.
Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2004-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1861895941
It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda, advertising and the media are having on language today. Looking to the future, he shows how electronic media will continue to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate. "[a] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book ... a virtuoso tour of the linguistic world."—The Economist "... few who read this remarkable study will regard language in quite the same way again."—The Good Book Guide
Author : Geoffrey Hughes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1998-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0141954329
Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary developments, such as the growth of Political Correctness.
Author : Asif Agha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521576857
Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.
Author : Joey Lee Dillard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110105841
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : William M. Schniedewind
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300199104
More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes, and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind examines classical Hebrew from its origins in the second millennium BCE until the Rabbinic period, when the principles of Judaism as we know it today were formulated, to view the story of the Israelites through the lens of their language. Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites’ long history of migration, war, exile, and other momentous events is reflected in Hebrew’s linguistic evolution. An excellent addition to the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies, this fascinating work brings linguistics and social history together for the first time to explore an ancient culture.
