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| Author | : Björn H. Jernudd |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2011-07-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110868377 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
| Author | : Olivia Walsh |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2016-08-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027266735 |
This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social, political and economic history. Three different levels of society are examined (official, group and individual), allowing a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’. This is a key element in recent discussions of language planning but is rarely provided in studies of French. The study is also the first to apply to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991), and has evaluated and refined this, enhancing the theoretical underpinnings of the field. The book will be of interest not only to French scholars and sociolinguists, but also to scholars of language planning, language policy and language ideologies in all languages.
| Author | : Nils Langer |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2011-12-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110901358 |
Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.
| Author | : Institute of Culture and Communication (East-West Center) |
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| Release | : 1985 |
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| Author | : George Thomas |
| Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in small areas of linguistics.
| Author | : Jennifer M. Wei |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2008-04-18 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1461633729 |
Jennifer M. Wei argues that construction and perceptions of language and identity parallel sociopolitical transformations, and language and identity crises arise during power transitions. Under these premises, language and identity are never well-defined or well-bounded. Instead, they are best viewed as political symbols subject to manipulation and exploitation during socio-historical upheavals. A choice of language—from phonological shibboleth, Mandarin, or Taiwanese, to choice of official language—cuts to the heart of contested cultural notions of self and other, with profound implications for nationalism, national unity and ethno-linguistic purism. Wei further argues that because of the Chinese Diaspora and Taiwan's connections to China and the United States, arguments and sentiments over language choice and identity have consequences for Taiwan's international and transnational status. They are symbolic acts of imagining Taiwan's past as she looks forward to the future.
| Author | : Jacob M. Landau |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780472112265 |
A unique analysis of language policies in the central Asian states of the former Soviet Union
| Author | : Keith Allan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2006-10-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139457608 |
Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.
| Author | : Laada Bilaniuk |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9780801472794 |
During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual country where the two main languages are closely related but their statuses are hotly contested. Laada Bilaniuk finds that the social divisions in Ukraine are historically rooted, ideologically constructed, and inseparable from linguistic practice. She does not take the labeled categories as givens but questions what "Ukrainian" and "Russian" mean to different people, and how the boundaries between these categories may be blurred in unstable times.Bilaniuk's analysis of the contemporary situation is based on ethnographic research in Ukraine and grounded in historical research essential to understanding developments since the fall of the Soviet Union. "Mixed language" practices (surzhyk) in Ukraine have generally been either ignored or reviled, but Bilaniuk traces their history, their social implications, and their accompanying ideologies. Through a focus on mixed language and purism, the author examines the power dynamics of linguistic and cultural correction, through which people seek either to confer or to deny others social legitimacy. The author's examination of the rapid transformation of symbolic values in Ukraine challenges theories of language and social power that have as a rule been based on the experience of relatively stable societies.
| Author | : Alessandro Duranti |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2009-05-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1405126337 |
Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key subjects, including speech communities, the power and performance of language, and narratives Selections are both historically oriented and thematically coherent, and are accessibly grouped according to four major themes: speech community and communicative competence; the performance of language; language socialization and literacy practices; and the power of language An extensive introduction provides an original perspective on the development of the field and highlights its most compelling issues Each section includes a brief introductory statement, sets of guiding questions, and list of recommended readings on the main topics
