Society And Language Use
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Author | : Jürgen Jaspers |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010-09-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027289166 |
The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this seventh volume underlines the mutually constitutive relation between society and language use. It highlights a number of the most prominent approaches of this relation and it draws attention to a selected number of topics that the study of language in its social context has characteristically brought to bear. Despite their theoretical and methodological differences, each of the chapters in this book assumes that it is necessary to look at society and language use as interdependent phenomena, and that by attending to microscopic linguistic phenomena one is also keeping a finger on the pulse of broader, macroscopic social tendencies that at the same time facilitate and constrain language use. The introduction provides a sketch of the intellectual antecedents of the volume’s two ‘mother disciplines’, viz., linguistics and social theory before pointing at recent common ground in the rising attention for discourse and what has come to be called ‘late-modernity’.
Author | : Jürgen Jaspers |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027207844 |
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Author | : William Downes |
Publisher | : Fontana Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Gisle Andersen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2011-12-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110214423 |
Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research.
Author | : Ofelia García |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0190212896 |
This book challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics. It proposes a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to the emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant concepts.
Author | : Linda Thomas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-09-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134661606 |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Andrew Simpson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2019-01-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0190940204 |
Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world and how the growth of major national and official languages is threatening the continued existence of smaller, minority languages. As individuals adopt new ways of speaking, many languages are disappearing, others are evolving into hybrid languages with distinctive new forms, and even long-established languages are experiencing significant change, with young speakers creating novel expressions and innovative pronunciations. Making use of a wide range of case studies selected from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, Andrew Simpson describes and explains key factors causing language variation and change which relate to societal structures and the expression of group and personal identity. The volume also examines how speakers' knowledge of language acts as an important force controlling access to education, advances in employment and the development of social status. Additional topics discussed in the volume focus on the global growth of English, gendered patterns of language use, and the influence of language on perception.
Author | : Rodney H. Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2022-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108498922 |
An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.
Author | : Suzanne Romaine |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000-10-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191607029 |
Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne Romaine provides a clear, lively, and accessible introduction to the field of sociolinguistics and emphasizes the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language and social class, language and gender, language and education, and pidgins and creoles. The text shows how our linguistic choices are motivated by social factors, and how certain ways of speaking come to be vested with symbolic value and includes examples drawing on studies of cultures and languages all over the world. This new edition incorporates new material on current issues in the study of gender as well as other topics such as the linguistic dimension to the ethnic conflict in the Balkans, and the controversy over Ebonics in the United States.
Author | : James Stanlaw |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429974701 |
Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer pressing and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, and linguistic diasporas. Chapters on gender, race, and class also examine how language helps create - and is created by - identity. New to this edition are enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and the inclusion of a glossary. There is also an expanded discussion of communication online and of social media outlets and how that universe is changing how we interact. The discussion on race and ethnicity has also been expanded to include Latin- and Asian-American English vernacular.