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Author : Claire Kramsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108835862
Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.
Author : Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780708324974
This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political conflict in Northern Ireland. Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970s up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of the prison authorities to suppress the language, and the dramatic impact this had on Irish society. Drawing on interviews with the prisoners, and various other materials, Mac Giolla Chriost shows how these developments gave rise to the popular coinage of the term ‘Jailtacht’, a deformation of ‘Gaeltacht’ - the official Irish-speaking districts of the Republic of Ireland, to describe this unique linguistic phenomenon.
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:320716860
Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520340664
From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them are explicitly concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view.
Author : Patrick Dunn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780738713601
All forms of magic are linked to language. As a magic practitioner and a linguist, Patrick Dunn illuminates this fascinating relationship and offers breakthrough theories on how and why magic works. Drawing on linguistics and semiotics (the study of symbols), Dunn illuminates the magical use of language, both theoretically and practically. He poses new theories on the mechanics of magic by analyzing the structure of ritual, written signs and sigils, primal language, incantations across cultures, Qabalah and gematria (Hebrew numerology), and the Enochian vocabulary. This revolutionary paradigm can help magicians understand how sigils and talismans work, compose Enochian spells, speak in tongues for magic, create mantras, work with gematria, use postmodern "defixios," and refine their practice in countless other ways. ""Magic, Power, Language, Symbol" is a unique tour de force that reinterprets the very nature of magic—placing it within the modern sciences of symbolism (semiotics) and language (linguistics). Within this paradigm, Dunn explains something that most other books miss: a logical and scientific understanding of how and why real magic actually works." —Donald Michael Kraig, author of "Modern Magick"
Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393343021
"A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.
Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108063784
A seminal 1921 work by the linguist Edward Sapir, outlining his influential ideas and hypotheses on language and its speakers.
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052129164X
Through Pierre Bourdieu's work in Kabylia (Algeria), he develops a theory on symbolic power.
Author : Alastair Pennycook,Emi Otsuji
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317530312
This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of ‘metrolingualism’, showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual exchange between people, history, migration, architecture, urban landscapes and linguistic resources. Cities and languages are in constant change, as new speakers with new repertoires come into contact as a result of globalization and the increased mobility of people and languages. Metrolingualism sheds light on the ordinariness of linguistic diversity as people go about their daily lives, getting things done, eating and drinking, buying and selling, talking and joking, drawing on whatever linguistic resources are available. Engaging with current debates about multilingualism, and developing a new way of thinking about language, the authors explore language within a number of contemporary urban situations, including cafés, restaurants, shops, streets, construction sites and other places of work, in two diverse cities, Sydney and Tokyo. This is an invaluable look at how people of different backgrounds get by linguistically. Metrolingualism: Language in the city will be of special interest to advanced undergraduate/postgraduate students and researchers of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.
Author : Mauricio García-Villegas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108482714
García-Villegas compares the scholarship on the relationship between law, political power, and society in the United States and France.
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500937
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 : Pierre Bourdieu,Jean-Claude Passeron,Monique de Saint Martin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804726884
In this innovative work on culture and education, Pierre Bourdieu and his associates examine the role of language and linguistic misunderstanding in the teaching contexts of higher education.
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : OCLC:610269580
Author : Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674510410
This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts elaborated by Austin and others. He argues that language should be viewed not only as a means of communication but also as a medium of power through which individuals pursue their own interests and display their practical competence. Drawing on the concepts that are part of his distinctive theoretical approach, Bourdieu maintains that linguistic utterances or expressions can be understood as the product of the relation between a "linguistic market" and a "linguistic habitus." When individuals use language in particular ways, they deploy their accumulated linguistic resources and implicitly adapt their words to the demands of the social field or market that is their audience. Hence every linguistic interaction, however personal or insignificant it may seem, bears the traces of the social structure that it both expresses and helps to reproduce. Bourdieu's account sheds fresh light on the ways in which linguistic usage varies according to considerations such as class and gender. It also opens up a new approach to the ways in which language is used in the domain of politics. For politics is, among other things, the arena in which words are deeds and the symbolic character of power is at stake. This volume, by one of the leading social thinkers in the world today, represents a major contribution to the study of language and power. It will be of interest to students throughout the social sciences and humanities, especially in sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, and literature.
Author : Katherine Verdery
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520203587
The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.