Book Description
Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.
Author : Asif Agha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 21,77 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 : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1512809586
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Shigeko Okamoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316720616
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
Author : Thomas M. Holtgraves
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135672652
"Topics covered include speech act theory and indirect speech acts, politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language, language and impression management and person perception, conversational structure, perspective taking, and language and social thought."--Jacket
Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317881451
The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including- - social motivations for language variation and change - language, power and authority - language and ageing - language, race and class - language planning In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociolinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistics to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reasessment of the place sociolinguistics occupies in the social sciences generally.
Author : Susan Gal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108491898
An important study of how signs and sign relations create social and linguistic differences - and unities.
Author : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027218633
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
Author : Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1589016742
Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. They provide hopes, enhance or mitigate disappointments, challenge or support moral order and test out theories of the world at both personal and communal levels. It is because of this deep embedding of narrative in everyday life that its study has become a wide research field including disciplines as diverse as linguistics, literary theory, folklore, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and history. In Telling Stories leading scholars illustrate how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture; and they investigate various settings such as therapeutic and medical encounters, educational environments, politics, media, marketing, and public relations. They analyze a variety of topics from the narrative construction of self and identity to the telling of stories in different media and the roles that small and big life stories play in everyday social interactions and institutions. These new reflections on the theory and analysis of narrative offer the latest tools to researchers in the fields of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.
Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199858616
This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language, presenting a succinct account of the most important aspects - both "micro" and "macro" - of sociolinguistics, such as language variation, language attitudes, and the relationship between language and identity.
Author : Farina Mir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0520262697
poetics of belonging in the region. --Book Jacket.