Norms And The Study Of Language In Social Life

Author : Janus Mortensen,Kamilla Kraft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511882

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Sociolinguistics and the social sciences more generally tend to take an interest in norms as central to social life. The importance of norms is easily discernible in the sociolinguistic canon, for instance in Labov’s definition of the speech community as ‘participation in a set of shared norms’ and Hymes’ concepts of ‘norms of interaction’ and ‘norms of interpretation’. Yet, while the notion of norms may play a central role in sociolinguistic theory, there is little explicit theoretical work around the notion of norms itself within the discipline. Instead, norms tend to be treated as conceptual primes – convenient building blocks, ready-made for sociolinguistic theorizing – rather than theoretical constructs in need of reflexive attention. The aim of this book is to assess and advance current understandings of norms as a theoretical construct and empirical object of research in the study of language in social life. The contributors approach the topic from a range of complementary disciplinary perspectives, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, EM/CA, socio-cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to provide a multifaceted view of norms as a central concept in the study of language in social life.

Author : Janus Mortensen,Kamilla Kraft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511899

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Norms and the Study of Language in Social Life by Janus Mortensen,Kamilla Kraft Pdf

Sociolinguistics and the social sciences more generally tend to take an interest in norms as central to social life. The importance of norms is easily discernible in the sociolinguistic canon, for instance in Labov’s definition of the speech community as ‘participation in a set of shared norms’ and Hymes’ concepts of ‘norms of interaction’ and ‘norms of interpretation’. Yet, while the notion of norms may play a central role in sociolinguistic theory, there is little explicit theoretical work around the notion of norms itself within the discipline. Instead, norms tend to be treated as conceptual primes – convenient building blocks, ready-made for sociolinguistic theorizing – rather than theoretical constructs in need of reflexive attention. The aim of this book is to assess and advance current understandings of norms as a theoretical construct and empirical object of research in the study of language in social life. The contributors approach the topic from a range of complementary disciplinary perspectives, including sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, EM/CA, socio-cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to provide a multifaceted view of norms as a central concept in the study of language in social life.

Author : Florence Bonacina-Pugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031557835

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Language Policy as Practice by Florence Bonacina-Pugh Pdf

Author : Nikolas Coupland,Srikant Sarangi,Christopher N. Candlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317881445

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Sociolinguistics and Social Theory by Nikolas Coupland,Srikant Sarangi,Christopher N. Candlin Pdf

The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including- - social motivations for language variation and change - language, power and authority - language and ageing - language, race and class - language planning In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociolinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistics to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reasessment of the place sociolinguistics occupies in the social sciences generally.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500937

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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

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 : David Romand,Michel Le Du
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031179136

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Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity by David Romand,Michel Le Du Pdf

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject’s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative – lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological... – dimensions of a definite language he or she is acquainted with. The volume’s twelve contributions aim to revisit a concept that, through a fluctuating terminology (“Sprachgefühl,” “sentiment de la langue,” “linguistic intuitions,” etc.), had developed, since the late 18th century, within a variety of cultural contexts and research traditions, and whose theoretical, epistemological, and historical ins and outs had not been systematically explored so far. Beginning with a long opening chapter, the book consists of two parts, one tracing the multifaceted approaches to linguistic feeling from Herder to Wittgenstein, and one offering a representative overview of the debates about the issue at stake in current linguistics and philosophy, while addressing the question of the place of metacognition, normativity, and affectivity in language processes.

Author : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512809589

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The Social Life of Language by Gillian Sankoff Pdf

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.

Author : Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261649

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Handbook of Pragmatics by Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. Also available as Online Resource: benjamins.com/online/hop/

Author : K. M. Borman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317738114

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The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society by K. M. Borman Pdf

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.

Author : Shigeko Okamoto,Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107072268

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The Social Life of the Japanese Language by Shigeko Okamoto,Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith Pdf

This book focuses on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan.

Author : Beau Patterson & Ryan West
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839473029

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Socio Linguistics by Beau Patterson & Ryan West Pdf

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It differs from sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society. Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics. It is historically closely related to linguistic anthropology, and the distinction between the two fields has been questioned. This book deals with the social life of language. The field ranges from micro-analyses to broadly-based policy and planning undertakings. As such, this book draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and psycholinguistics. The relationship between language and identity - whether of an individual or a group - is a strong thread linking all the topics covered in the book. For researchers and advanced students, it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research.

Author : Susan Gal,Judith T. Irvine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108491891

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Signs of Difference by Susan Gal,Judith T. Irvine Pdf

An important study of how signs and sign relations create social and linguistic differences - and unities.

Author : Philipp Strazny
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135455231

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Encyclopedia of Linguistics by Philipp Strazny Pdf

Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.

Author : Asif Agha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521576857

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Language and Social Relations by Asif Agha Pdf

Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.

Author : Norman Segalowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136968839

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Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency by Norman Segalowitz Pdf

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize Exploring fluency from multiple vantage points that together constitute a cognitive science perspective, this book examines research in second language acquisition and bilingualism that points to promising avenues for understanding and promoting second language fluency. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency covers essential topics such as units of analysis for measuring fluency, the relation of second language fluency to general cognitive fluidity, social and motivational contributors to fluency, and neural correlates of fluency. The author provides clear and accessible summaries of foundational empirical work on speech production, automaticity, lexical access, and other issues of relevance to second language acquisition theory. Cognitive Bases of Second Language Fluency is a valuable reference for scholars in SLA, cognitive psychology, and language teaching, and it can also serve as an ideal textbook for advanced courses in these fields.