Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230302203
The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do with the twin issues of power and identity . Important evidence and illustrations bearing upon these matters are provided and supplemented by an extensive bibliography.
Author : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,33 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 : John Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 30,22 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 : Sally McConnell-Ginet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108427219
Featuring current and historical concrete examples and minimising technical vocabulary, Words Matter is for all interested in examining ideas about language and its connections to social conflict and change. Accessible to general readers, the book will also be useful in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, or other classes featuring language.
Author : Nicholas Harkness
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 022674955X
Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, has long been a subject of curiosity as well as vigorous theological debate. A worldwide phenomenon that spans multiple Christian traditions, glossolalia is both celebrated as a supernatural gift and condemned as semiotic alchemy. For some it is mystical speech that exceeds what words can do, and for others it is mere gibberish, empty of meaning. At the heart of these differences is glossolalia’s puzzling relationship to language. ? Glossolalia and the Problem of Language investigates speaking in tongues in South Korea, where it is practiced widely across denominations and congregations. Nicholas Harkness shows how the popularity of glossolalia in Korea lies at the intersection of numerous, often competing social forces, interwoven religious legacies, and spiritual desires that have been amplified by Christianity’s massive institutionalization. As evangelicalism continues to spread worldwide, Glossolalia and the Problem of Language analyzes one of its most enigmatic practices while marking a major advancement in our understanding of the power of language and its limits.
Author : Roe Bubar
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : HIV-positive persons
ISBN : 1438101309
Study the social issues faced by Native Americans within the context of the genesis of the problems and what efforts have been made to address them. Some of the subjects covered include health, HIV/AIDS, and violence against women.
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139500937
The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Author : Shigeko Okamoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,86 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 : Susan Gal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 36,19 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 : Thomas M. Holtgraves
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 18,91 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
