Norms Of Language

Author : Janus Mortensen,Kamilla Kraft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Elena Maria Pandolfi,Johanna Miecznikowski,Sabine Christopher,Alain Kamber
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Interaction analysis in education
ISBN : 3631670362

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Studies on Language Norms in Context by Elena Maria Pandolfi,Johanna Miecznikowski,Sabine Christopher,Alain Kamber Pdf

The book treats different aspects of language norms. One focus is on standardization and language policy. Other contributions investigate the construction of L2 norms by learners and norms in classroom interaction. Discourse norms are theorized and the way language users make them relevant and explicit is examined in various communicative contexts.

Author : Renate Bartsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015014170727

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Norms of Language by Renate Bartsch Pdf

Author : Miriam A. Locher,Jürg Strässler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110206982

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Standards and Norms in the English Language by Miriam A. Locher,Jürg Strässler Pdf

The theme of this collection is a discussion of the notions of 'norms' and 'standards', which are studied from various different angles, but always in relation to the English language. These terms are to be understood in a very wide sense, allowing discussions of topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of English dialects and varieties over time and space and their relation to the standard language. The collection is organized into three parts, each of which covers an important research field for the study of norms and standards. Part 1 is entitled "English over time and space" and is further divided into three thematic subgroups: standard and non-standard features in English varieties and dialects; research on English standardization processes; and issues of standards and norms in oral production. Part 2 deals with "English usage in non-native contexts," and Part 3 is dedicated to "Issues on politeness and impoliteness." The notions of standards and norms are equally important concepts for historical linguists, sociolinguists with a variationist background, applied linguists, pragmaticians, and discourse analysts.

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521119276

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Native Speakers and Native Users by Alan Davies Pdf

'Native speakers' and 'native users' are playing the same game, sharing, as they do, the model of the Standard Language.

Author : Susan M. Gass,Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig,Sally Sieloff Magnan,Joel Walz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297495

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Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching by Susan M. Gass,Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig,Sally Sieloff Magnan,Joel Walz Pdf

The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book both situates and expands on this concept highlighting the interaction of research and pedagogy. The papers collectively illustrate how the concept of pedagogical norm applies to all components of language, including phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse. The book begins with a discussion of definitions including papers that trace the history of the concept and define what is meant by norms. Also included are papers that apply the concept of pedagogical norms in specific contexts (e.g., intonation, morphology) and to specific languages. Finally, pedagogical norms are extended beyond the more traditional areas of grammatical competence to such disparate areas as listening, discourse, and circumlocution.

Author : Gijsbert Rutten,Rik Vosters,Wim Vandenbussche
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268792

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Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900 by Gijsbert Rutten,Rik Vosters,Wim Vandenbussche Pdf

Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The time has come to integrate both perspectives, and to reassess the importance of language norms, standardization and prescription on the basis of sound empirical studies of large corpora of texts. The chapters in this volume discuss the interplay of language norms and language use in the history of Dutch, English, French and German between 1600 and 1900. Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter focuses on one language and one century. A substantial introductory chapter puts the twelve research chapters into a comparative perspective. The book is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.

Author : Carol Percy,Mary Catherine Davidson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847697806

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The Languages of Nation by Carol Percy,Mary Catherine Davidson Pdf

This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.

Author : Aleksi Mäkilähde,Ville Leppänen,Esa Itkonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262165

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Normativity in Language and Linguistics by Aleksi Mäkilähde,Ville Leppänen,Esa Itkonen Pdf

This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters address a range of issues from general questions about ontology, epistemology and methodology to aspects of particular subfields (such as semantics and historical linguistics) or phenomena (such as construal and code-switching). The volume aims to further our understanding of language and linguistics as well as to encourage further discussion on the metatheory of linguistics. Due to the fundamental nature of the issues under discussion, this volume will be of interest to all linguists regardless of their background or fields of expertise and to philosophers concerned with language or other normative domains.

Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262312868

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Lexical Analysis by Patrick Hanks Pdf

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing. Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal usage—between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, generative lexicon theory, priming theory, and pattern grammar.

Author : Luisella Caon,Marion Elenbaas,Janet Grijzenhout
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527563561

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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms by Luisella Caon,Marion Elenbaas,Janet Grijzenhout Pdf

This volume offers a collection of twelve original papers on language use and attitudes towards language from both a historical and a present-day perspective. The first part of the book focuses on the general theme of language use and on attitudes towards language use in both the past and the present. The second part concentrates on actual language use in personal and public letters from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The third part is mainly concerned with the possible impact of usage guides, and also addresses the problem of language and cultural misunderstanding and the apparent need for usage guides for cultural allusions. Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.

Author : Janus Mortensen,Kamilla Kraft
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511882

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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 : Christina Schäffner
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853594385

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Translation and Norms by Christina Schäffner Pdf

Whether the judgements translators of different language works make are normative and somehow wrapped up in societal values that change with time or social positioning is the subject of these contributions. Two main contributions from English and Israeli scholars are presented which argue that the concept of norms should be the primary analytical tool for understanding everything from the choices of words to regularly appearing patterns in writing. Seven brief responses and counter-responses follow. Also included are the transcripts of two debates on the topic. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Multilingual persons
ISBN : 3631596375

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Multilingual Norms by Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Pdf

Multilinguals are not multiple monolinguals. Yet multilingual assessment proceeds through monolingual norms, as if fair conclusions were possible in the absence of fair comparison. In addition, multilingualism concerns what people do with language, not what languages do to people. Yet research focus remains on multilinguals' languages, as if languages existed despite their users. This book redresses these paradoxes. Multilingual scholars, teachers and speech-language clinicians from Europe, Asia, Australia and the US contribute the first studies dedicated to multilingual norms, those found in real-life multilingual development, assessment and use. Readership includes educators, clinicians, decision-makers and researchers interested in multilingualism.

Author : Luisella Caon,Marion Elenbaas,Janet Grijzenhout
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527566248

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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms by Luisella Caon,Marion Elenbaas,Janet Grijzenhout Pdf

This volume offers a collection of twelve original papers on language use and attitudes towards language from both a historical and a present-day perspective. The first part of the book focuses on the general theme of language use and on attitudes towards language use in both the past and the present. The second part concentrates on actual language use in personal and public letters from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The third part is mainly concerned with the possible impact of usage guides, and also addresses the problem of language and cultural misunderstanding and the apparent need for usage guides for cultural allusions. Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.