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The Social Life of Words

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119881056
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Words written by Laura Wright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselves Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.

The Social Life of Language

Author : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512809586
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Language written by Gillian Sankoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Author : John Edwards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230302203
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Challenges in the Social Life of Language written by John Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Words Matter

Author : Sally McConnell-Ginet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427219
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Words Matter written by Sally McConnell-Ginet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Social Life of Words

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111988103X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Words written by Laura Wright and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselves Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.

The Social Life of Language

Author : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Language written by Gillian Sankoff and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words

Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195041X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words written by Catherine Waters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.

The Social Life of Art

Author : Peter Stupples
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443870927
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Art written by Peter Stupples and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines not only the objects and processes that make up the artworlds of human history, but also the social and cultural circumstances, the historicised contexts that bring about their making, frame their functioning, inform their properties and influence their effects, both at the time of their creation and throughout their subsequent biographies. In the short span that “art” has played a part in human life, one may conceive of time as a social river, with a strong current towards the capricious mainstream, and eddies and quiet pools near the banks. The current will flow faster in spate and slower in drought. But it will be forever in motion. It will be unpredictable. Nothing will stop its inexorable force. Art runs in that social river, subject to the flow and chance of time.

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Author : William Hollingsworth Whyte
Publisher : Ingram
ISBN 13 : 9780970632418
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces written by William Hollingsworth Whyte and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2001 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.

The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society

Author : K. M. Borman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 131773811X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society written by K. M. Borman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book developed from a symposium in which participants examined childhood socialization from a number of perspectives and with several disciplinary lenses. The major purpose of the symposium and thus of this volume is to provide an integrative, multidisciplinary discussion of the social development of preschool and young elementary school-aged children. As a result, there are contributions to this volume from anthropologists (Leacock, Ogbu), psychologists (Lippincott, Mueller, Ramey and Snow), sociologists (Borman, Denzin) and scholars who have self-consciously adopted an interdisciplinary framework. First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Social Life of Numbers

Author : Gary Urton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786840
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Numbers written by Gary Urton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unraveling all the mysteries of the khipu--the knotted string device used by the Inka to record both statistical data and narrative accounts of myths, histories, and genealogies--will require an understanding of how number values and relations may have been used to encode information on social, familial, and political relationships and structures. This is the problem Gary Urton tackles in his pathfinding study of the origin, meaning, and significance of numbers and the philosophical principles underlying the practice of arithmetic among Quechua-speaking peoples of the Andes. Based on fieldwork in communities around Sucre, in south-central Bolivia, Urton argues that the origin and meaning of numbers were and are conceived of by Quechua-speaking peoples in ways similar to their ideas about, and formulations of, gender, age, and social relations. He also demonstrates that their practice of arithmetic is based on a well-articulated body of philosophical principles and values that reflects a continuous attempt to maintain balance, harmony, and equilibrium in the material, social, and moral spheres of community life.

The Social Life of Stories

Author : Julie Cruikshank
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774806497
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Stories written by Julie Cruikshank and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating and theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social power and significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today experience strikingly different and often competing systems of narrative and knowledge. These systems include more traditional oral stories; the authoritative, literate voice of the modern state; and the narrative forms used by academic disciplines to represent them to outsiders.

The Social Life of Scriptures

Author : James Bielo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813548418
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Scriptures written by James Bielo and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Christians do with the Bible? How do theyùindividually and collectivelyùinteract with the sacred texts? Why does this engagement shift so drastically among and between social, historical, religious, and institutional contexts? Such questions are addressed in a most enlightening, engaging, and original way in The Social Life of Scriptures. Contributors offer a collection of closely analyzed and carefully conducted ethnographic and historical case studies, covering a range of geographic, theological, and cultural territory, including: American evangelicals and charismatics; Jamaican Rastafarians; evangelical and Catholic Mayans; Northern Irish charismatics; Nigerian Anglicans; and Chinese evangelicals in the United States. The Social Life of Scriptures is the first book to present an eclectic, cross-cultural, and comparative investigation of Bible use. Moreover, it models an important movement to outline a framework for how scriptures are implicated in organizing social structures and meanings, with specific foci on gender, ethnicity, agency, and power.

The Secret Life of Pronouns

Author : James W. Pennebaker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194965
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Pronouns written by James W. Pennebaker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Opening Up draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what our language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals. 40,000 first printing.

The Social Life of Achievement

Author : Nicholas J. Long
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382216
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Achievement written by Nicholas J. Long and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement's multiple effects-one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality, embodiment, affect and narrative. In doing so, the volume advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within anthropology, emphasizing the significance of achievement as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of "the achiever" as a subject position.

The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

Author : Jamie Kreiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050650
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom written by Jamie Kreiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how a set of great stories changed the political playing field in an early medieval society.

The Social Life of Money in the English Past

Author : Deborah Valenze
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521852420
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Money in the English Past written by Deborah Valenze and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how people understood and used money from 1630 to 1800 in England. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions.