Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Author : Douglas Biber,Edward Finegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195359329

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register by Douglas Biber,Edward Finegan Pdf

This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phenomena; it includes empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, as well as explanations for existing patterns of variation and proposals for theoretical frameworks. The book treats languages in obsolescence and in their youth; it examines registers from languages from around the globe; and it offers several of the most complete studies of registers and register variation published to date, adopting both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Author : Markus Rheindorf,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788924696

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control by Markus Rheindorf,Ruth Wodak Pdf

In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies, set against the background of the rise of nationalist and populist movements. The voices of migrants and refugees are rarely heard in this context: usually, they are debated about, summarized and reported but their agency is denied. Each contribution to this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants.

Author : Jenny Cheshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316582350

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English around the World by Jenny Cheshire Pdf

Only a few centuries ago the English language consisted of a collection of dialects spoken mainly by monolinguals and only within the shores of a small island. Now the English language includes such typologically distinct varieties as pidgins and creoles, 'new' Englishes, and a range of different standard and nonstandard varieties that are spoken on a regular basis in many different countries throughout the world. English is also, of course, the main language used for communication at an international level. The use of English in such a diverse range of social contexts around the world provides us with a unique opportunity to analyse and document the linguistic variation and change that is occurring within a single language, on a far greater scale - as far as we know - than has ever happened in the world's linguistic history before. This volume is intended to give a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of variation in the use of the English language around the world. Overview papers, written by specialist authors, survey the social context in which English is spoken in those parts of the world where it is widely used. Case study papers then provide representative examples of the empirical research that has been carried out into the English that is spoken in that part of the world. The volume therefore contributes both to our understanding of the English language worldwide and to a more general understanding of language as it is used in its social context. It assesses the extent of our current knowledge of variation in the English language and points to gaps in our understanding which future research might set out to remedy.

Author : Charles A. Ferguson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195357707

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives by Charles A. Ferguson Pdf

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Gerald Stell,Kofi Yakpo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110383942

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Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives by Gerald Stell,Kofi Yakpo Pdf

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by social factors in the occurrence, forms, and outcomes of code-switching. The contributions in this volume are divided into three parts: “code-switching between cognition and socio-pragmatics”, “multilingual interaction and identity”, and “code-switching and social structure”. The case studies represent contact settings on five continents and feature languages with diverse linguistic affiliations. They are predictive and descriptive in their research goals and rely on experimental or naturalistic data. But they share the common goal of seeking to explain how social structures, ideologies, and identity impact on the grammatical and conversational features of code-switching and language mixing, and on the emergence of mixed languages. Given its scope, this volume is a significant addition to the empirical and theoretical foundations of the study of code-switching. It is also of relevance to the general debate on the inter-relationships between language and society.

Author : Alexandra Jaffe
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195331646

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Stance by Alexandra Jaffe Pdf

Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-is central to communication. This collected volume explores stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, looking at how speakers use language to position themselves and others and exploring how speakers and writers make use of and sometimes transform the meaning of sociolinguistic variables in their acts of stance.

Author : Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198025313

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994 by Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus) Pdf

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Nessa Wolfson
Publisher : Newbury House Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015013337764

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Perspectives by Nessa Wolfson Pdf

Author : Gabriele Kasper,Eric Kellerman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317894612

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Communication Strategies by Gabriele Kasper,Eric Kellerman Pdf

This book examines the topic of communication strategies, the ways in which people seek to express themselves or understand what someone else is saying or writing. Typically, the term has referred to the strategies that non-native speakers use to address the linguistic and pragmatic problems encountered in interactions with native and non-native speakers of the language in question. Studies adopting a psycholinguistic perspective are well represented and updated in this volume. Other chapters re-examine communication strategies from a sociolinguistic perspective, exploring the strategies non-native speakers and their conversational partners use to create shared meanings in ongoing discourse. These studies reveal how communication strategies can serve to construct participants' identities and social relationships. Finally, the book incorporates a number of chapters which cover strategy-like behaviour in other related areas, such as language pathology, child bilingualism, normal native adult interaction, and mother tongue education. These studies add fresh dimensions to the study of communication strategies, showing how the concept can usefully be extended beyond the realm of second language acquisition and use, and pointing out the commonalities in many domains of language behaviour.

Author : Jenny Cheshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521395658

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English Around the World by Jenny Cheshire Pdf

The social development of English as a world language emerges from a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of it as well as the gaps in understanding which future research can remedy.

Author : Anna De Fina,Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139502580

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Analyzing Narrative by Anna De Fina,Alexandra Georgakopoulou Pdf

The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

Author : Charles Albert Ferguson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 9780195092912

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives by Charles Albert Ferguson Pdf

The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Christina Bratt Paulston
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853591467

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Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education by Christina Bratt Paulston Pdf

An anthology of articles on ethnic bilingualism and bilingual education from a sociolinguistic perspective. It covers theoretical paradigms (primarily structural-functionalism and group conflict theory and the problem formulations in BE typical of the paradigms), practical research methodology and a number of exemplificatory case studies.

Author : Alexandra Jaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199887156

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Stance by Alexandra Jaffe Pdf

All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions vis-à-vis the expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech. This book brings together contributions in a new and dynamic current of academic explorations of stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical texts, naturally occurring conversation, classroom interaction and interviews, leading authors in the field of sociolinguistics in this volume explore how linguistic stancetaking is implicated in the representation of self, personal style and acts of stylization, and self- and other-positioning. The analyses also focus on how speakers deploy and take up stances vis-a-vis sociolinguistic variables and the critical role of stance in the processes of indexicalization: how linguistic forms come to be associated with social categories and meanings. In doing so, many of the authors address critical issues of power and social reproduction, examining how stance is implicated in the production, reproduction and potential change of social and linguistic hierarchies and ideologies. This volume maps out the terrain of existing sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological research on stance, synthesizes how it relates to existing theoretical orientations, and identifies a framework for future research.

Author : Krystyna Drozdzial-Szelest,Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642235474

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Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Learning and Teaching by Krystyna Drozdzial-Szelest,Mirosław Pawlak Pdf

The volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues in second language learning and teaching, adopting as a point of reference both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. The papers included in the collection, which have been contributed by leading specialists in the field from Poland and abroad, touch upon important theoretical issues, report latest research findings and offer guidelines for classroom practice. The range of topics covered and the inclusion of concrete pedagogic proposals ensures that the book will be of interest to a wide audience, not only SLA specialists, but also methodologists, material designers, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners