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Author : Ansu Datta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sociolinguistic Behaviour and Social Change written by Ansu Datta and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881443
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Social Theory written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert L. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521336413
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Language Planning and Social Change written by Robert L. Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization. Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, feminist campaigns to eliminate sexist bias in language, adult literacy campaigns, the plain language movement, efforts to distinguish American from British spelling, the American bilingual education movement, the creation of writing systems for unwritten languages, and campaigns to rid languages of foreign terms. Language Planning and Social Change is the first book to define the field of language planning and relate it to other aspects of social planning and to social change. The book is accessible and presupposes no special background in linguistics, sociology or political science. It will appeal to applied linguists and to those sociologists, economists and political scientists with an interest in language.
Author : Jonathan Marshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504132
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Language Change and Sociolinguistics written by Jonathan Marshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sociolinguistic study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the diffusion of language change within a community. Advanced statistical analysis methods are used in rigorously testing the supposed norm-enforcement effect of social networks. Revisions to the social network model are proposed, allowing the effects of various social factors operating simultaneously on the individual to be considered in evaluating the process of resistance to language change.
Author : Rada Tirvassen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380957
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sociolinguistics and the Narrative Turn written by Rada Tirvassen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In proposing the use of an alternative method for generating knowledge in the field of sociolinguistics, this book presents a fresh point of view. To introduce his argument, the author gives a well-considered critique of some of the guiding principles of traditional sociolinguists. Then, conducting a small-scale study involving seven participants, he shows how a qualitative narrative approach can renew the theorisation of the relationship between language and society.
Author : Robert Leon Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Language Spread written by Robert Leon Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Peter Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language and Social Behaviour written by William Peter Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben G. Blount
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483277658
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change written by Ben G. Blount and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change focuses on the influence of sociocultural terms on the forms of languages. The selection first underscores the sociocultural dimensions of language change and language evolution and speech style. Discussions focus on the relation of speech style and language evolution, linguistic evidence of language evolution, autonomy of code and style, language contact phenomena, and extension of the concept of language. The book then takes a look at speech and social prestige in the Belizian speech community; Japanese numeral classifiers; and speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature. Topics include appearance of varietal names, differentiation and formation of specific names, six universal categories of ethnobotanical nomenclature, salience of speech, and prestige, social success, and language. The publication elaborates on color categorization in West Futunese; creolization and syntactic change in New Guinea Tok Pisin; relexification processes in Philippine Creole Spanish; and the historical and sociocultural aspects of the distribution of linguistic variants in highland Chiapas, Mexico. The selection is a valuable source of data for language experts and researchers interested in the sociocultural dimensions of language change.
Author : Kevin Theinl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656017638
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Language and Society - The nature of sociolinguistic perception. Language Variation and Change written by Kevin Theinl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Rostock, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the social meaning of language, social categorization and covert reaction. It also goes into detail with the question if the use of the variable ING is linked to a perception of the speaker as intelligent or educated. Furthermore it will be discussed if the indexical field is a useful tool for understanding the use of a variable like –ING and its social interpretation. Afterwards the methods and results of Campbell-Kibler’s study are portrayed which include a discussion of the indexical field.
Author : Robert Macneil
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
ISBN 13 : 0307423573
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Do You Speak American? written by Robert Macneil and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500937
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Language written by Joshua A. Fishman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bayley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190233745
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics written by Robert Bayley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.
Author : Martin Pütz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270279
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Sociolinguistics written by Martin Pütz and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended to be a contribution to the rapidly growing field of research into Cognitive Sociolinguistics which draws on the convergence of methods and theoretical frameworks typically associated with Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. The papers in this volume, written by internationally renowned scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics (e.g. Labov) and cognitive sociolinguistics, seek to explore and systematize the key theoretical and epistemological bases for the emergence of this socio-cognitive paradigm. More specifically, the papers, originally published in Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2 (2012), focus on terms and concepts which are foundational to the discussion of Cognitive Sociolinguistics such as the role of cognition in the sociolinguistic enterprise; the social recontextualization of cognition; variability in cognitive systems; usage-based conceptions of language; pragmatic variation and cultural models of thought; cultural conceptualizations and lexicography as well as cognitive processing models and perceptual dialectology. All the papers are anchored in instrumental empirical data analysis. The volume provides a welcome contribution to the field for anyone interested in Cognitive Linguistics and its new developments. The seven papers included in this book were originally presented at the 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, which took place in March 2010 at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany).
Author : Sali A. Tagliamonte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451324
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation written by Sali A. Tagliamonte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the actual tools and methods have been largely passed on through 'word of mouth', rather than being formally documented. This is the first comprehensive 'how to' guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation. It shows step-by-step how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a research project from start to finish. Topics covered include fieldwork, data organization and management, analysis and interpretation, presenting research results, and writing up a paper. Practical and informal, the book contains all the information needed to conduct a fully-fledged sociolinguistic investigation, and includes exercises, checklists, references and insider tips. It is set to become an essential resource for students, researchers and fieldworkers embarking on research projects in sociolinguistics.
Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062284
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Sociolinguistics written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society.
Author : William Labov
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631179160
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Principles of Linguistic Change, Social Factors written by William Labov and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the long-anticipated results of several decades of inquiry into the social origins and social motivation of linguistic change. Written by one of the founders of modern sociolinguistics Features the first complete report on the Philadelphia project designed to establish the social location of the leaders of linguistic change Includes chapters on social class, neighborhood, ethnicity, gender, and social networks that delineate the leaders of linguistic change as women of the upper working class with a high density of interaction within their neighborhoods and a high proportion of weak ties outside of it
