A Sociolinguistics Of The South

Author : Kathleen Heugh,Christopher Stroud,Kerry Taylor-Leech,Peter I. De Costa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351805087

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A Sociolinguistics of the South by Kathleen Heugh,Christopher Stroud,Kerry Taylor-Leech,Peter I. De Costa Pdf

This book brings to life initiatives among scholars of the south and north to understand better the intelligences and pluralities of multilingualisms in southern communities and spaces of decoloniality. Chapters follow a longue durée perspective of human co-existence with communal presents, pasts, and futures; attachments to place; and insights into how multilingualisms emerge, circulate, and alter over time. Each chapter, informed by the authors’ experiences living and working among southern communities, illustrates nuances in ideas of south and southern, tracing (dis-/inter-) connected discourses in vastly different geopolitical contexts. Authors reflect on the roots, routes and ecologies of linguistic and epistemic heterogeneity while remembering the sociolinguistic knowledge and practices of those who have gone before. The book re-examines the appropriacy of how theories, policies, and methodologies ‘for multilingual contexts’ are transported across different settings and underscores the ethics of research practice and reversal of centre and periphery perspectives through careful listening and conversation. Highlighting the potential of a southern sociolinguistics to articulate a new humanity and more ethical world in registers of care, hope, and love, this volume contributes to new directions in critical and decolonial studies of multilingualism, and to re-imagining sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and applied linguistics more broadly.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 0864862806

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Language and Social History by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

Author : Bassey E. Antia,Sinfree Makoni
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000772623

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Southernizing Sociolinguistics by Bassey E. Antia,Sinfree Makoni Pdf

This innovative collection offers a pan-Southern rejoinder to hegemonies of Northern sociolinguistics. It showcases voices from the Global South that substitute alternative and complementary narrations of the link between language and society for canonical renditions of the field. Drawing on Southern epistemologies, the volume critically explores the entangled histories of racial colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in perpetuating prejudice in and around language as a means of encouraging the conceptualization of alternative epistemological futures for sociolinguistics. The book features work by both established and emerging scholars, and is organized around four parts: The politics of the constitution of language, and its metalanguage, in the Global South; Who gets published in sociolinguistics? Language in the Global South and the social inscription of difference; and Learning and the quotidian experience of language in the Global South. This book will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, critical race and ethnic studies, and philosophy of knowledge. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Ana Deumert,Sinfree Makoni
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788926584

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From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics by Ana Deumert,Sinfree Makoni Pdf

This book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters address issues ranging from author positionality to the central theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’ sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is our future and how we imagine it.

Author : Cynthia Bernstein,Thomas E. Nunnally,Robin Sabino
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817357443

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Language Variety in the South Revisited by Cynthia Bernstein,Thomas E. Nunnally,Robin Sabino Pdf

Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. Language Variety in the South Revisited is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 1986), this book includes current research into African American vernacular English, but it greatly expands the scope of investigation and offers an extensive assessment of the field. The volume encompasses studies of contact involving African and European languages; analysis of discourse, pragmatic, lexical, phonological, and syntactic features; and evaluations of methods of collecting and examining data. The 38 essays not only offer a wealth of information about southern language varieties but also serve as models for regional linguistic investigation.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748632497

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Introducing Sociolinguistics by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly synthesises the main approaches to the subject. The book covers areas such as multilingualism, code-choice, language variation, dialectology, interactional studies, gender, language contact, language and inequality, and language and power. At the same time it provides an integrated perspective on these themes by examining sociological theories of human interaction. In this regard power and inequality are particularly significant. The book also contains two chapters on the applications of sociolinguistics (in education and in language policy and planning) and a concluding chapter on the sociolinguistics of sign language. New topics covered include speaking style and stylisation, while current debates in areas like creolisation, globalisation and language death, language planning, and gender are reflected.Written collaboratively by teachers and scholars with first hand experience of sociolinguistic developments on four continents, this book provides the broadest introduction currently available to the central topics in sociolinguistics.Features:* Provides a solid foundation in all aspects of sociolinguistics and explores important themes such as power and inequality, sign language, gender and the internet* Well illustrated with maps, diagrams, inset boxes, drawings and cartoons* Accessibly written with the beginner in mind* Uses numerous examples from multilingual settings* Explains basic concepts, supported by a glossary* Further Reading lists, a full bibliography, and a section on 'next steps' provide valuable guidance.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015048526175

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Introducing Sociolinguistics by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

This introductory textbook expertly combines the main approaches to sociolinguistics. Written by teachers and scholars, it provides the broadest introduction available to the central topics in sociolinguistics.

Author : Edward C. Dimock,Braj B. Kachru,Bhadriraju Krishnamurti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015033147581

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Dimensions of Sociolinguistics in South Asia by Edward C. Dimock,Braj B. Kachru,Bhadriraju Krishnamurti Pdf

Author : Alastair Pennycook,Sinfree Makoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429951770

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Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South by Alastair Pennycook,Sinfree Makoni Pdf

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in struggles for basic, economic, political and social transformation in an inequitable world, and are not confined to the geographical South. Taking a critical perspective on Southern theories, demonstrating why it is important to view the world from Southern perspectives and why such positions must be open to critical investigation, this book: charts the impacts of these theories on approaches to multilingualism, language learning, language in education, literacy and diversity, language rights and language policy; provides broad historical and geographical understandings of the movement towards a Southern perspective and draws on Indigenous and Southern ways of thinking that challenge mainstream viewpoints; seeks to develop alternative understandings of applied linguistics, expand the intellectual repertoires of the discipline, and challenge the complicities between applied linguistics, colonialism, and capitalism. Written by two renowned scholars in the field, Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South is key reading for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics, multilingualism, language and education, language policy and planning, and language and identity.

Author : Braj B. Kachru,S. N. Sridhar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015019768848

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Aspects of Sociolinguistics in South Asia by Braj B. Kachru,S. N. Sridhar Pdf

Author : Carolin Biewer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268952

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South Pacific Englishes by Carolin Biewer Pdf

Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention, until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and morphosyntax of three representatives of South Pacific L2 English in comparison – two of which have never been described linguistically. The book describes the spread of English, its current status and use in the three island states and compares the most frequent and salient morphosyntactic features to corresponding structures in Asian and African Englishes and the Oceanic substrate languages. As part of a larger theoretical discussion on the multiple factors that determine the evolution and dynamics of L2 varieties in general, Mufwene’s feature pool model is extended to a new model that integrates cognitive aspects of language acquisition and use, typological aspects of the languages/varieties involved and socio-cultural motivations of language use. The book also examines the role of New Zealand English as a potential epicentre in the South Pacific and considers ethical and methodological issues of linguistic field research.

Author : Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue,Ellen Hurst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319496115

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Sociolinguistics in African Contexts by Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue,Ellen Hurst Pdf

This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521791057

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Language in South Africa by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.

Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748664405

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English Historical Sociolinguistics by Robert McColl Millar Pdf

Provides students with a more profound understanding of the sociolinguistic forces which initiate or encourage language change.

Author : Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317451013

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Globalising Sociolinguistics by Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich Pdf

This book challenges the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories by focusing on lesser known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the European Mediterranean, and Slavic regions as well as specific speech communities such as those speaking Nivkh, Jamaican Creole, North Saami, and Central Yup’ik. In nineteen chapters, the specialist authors look at key sociolinguistic aspects of each region or speech community, such as gender, politeness strategies, speech patterns and the effects of social hierarchy on language, concentrating on the differences from mainstream models. The volume, introduced by Miriam Meyerhoff, has been written by the leading expert of each specific region or community and includes contributions by Rajend Mesthrie, Marc Greenberg and Daming Xu. This publication draws together connections across regions/communities and considers how mainstream sociolinguistics is incomplete or lacking. It reveals how lesser-known cultures can play an important role in the building of theory in sociolinguistics. Globalising Sociolinguistics is essential reading for any researcher in sociolinguistics and language variation and will be a key reference for advanced sociolinguistics courses.