The Social Dynamics Of Pronominal Systems

Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262547

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The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems by Paul Bouissac Pdf

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference, from dominance to submission, and from solidarity to hostility. Languages greatly vary in the number of pronouns and other address terms they offer to their users with a distinct range of social values. Children learn their relative position in their family and in their society through the “correct” use of pronouns. When languages come into contact because of population migrations or through the process of translation, pronouns are the most sensitive zone of tension both psychologically and politically. This volume endeavours to probe the comparative pragmatics of pronominal systems as social processes in a representative set from different language families and cultural areas.

Author : Ursula Wiesemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UOM:39015014198272

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Pronominal Systems by Ursula Wiesemann Pdf

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon,Nerida Jarkey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192845924

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The Integration of Language and Society by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon,Nerida Jarkey Pdf

The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. It draws on data from a range of diverse languages to examine how aspects of grammar such as honorifics and possessives relate to societal practices. It will be a valuable resource for typologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists

Author : Laura L. Paterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003802532

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The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns by Laura L. Paterson Pdf

This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview of research on pronouns in the 21st century. With its dedicated sections on grammar, history, and change, language learning/acquisition, cognition and comprehension, power, politics, and identity, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns shows that contemporary interest in pronouns and gender represents just the tip of the iceberg. Led by Laura Paterson, a transdisciplinary collection of experts discuss the global history of different pronoun systems, synthesize the literature, and contextualize the salient issues and current debates shaping research on pronouns across different spheres and via different theoretical-methodological traditions. The Handbook is designed to encourage readers to engage with a range of perspectives from within and beyond their immediate areas of interest, with the ultimate aim of shaping the future trajectory of interdisciplinary, multiingual research on pronouns. Using data from multiple languages and engaging deeply with the social, cultural, political, technological, and psychological factors that can influence pronoun use, this innovative book will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of theoretical and applied linguistics, education, and the social and behavioural sciences.

Author : Taiwo, Rotimi,Idowu-Faith, Bimbola,Ajiboye, Simeon
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668481233

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Transformation of Higher Education Through Institutional Online Spaces by Taiwo, Rotimi,Idowu-Faith, Bimbola,Ajiboye, Simeon Pdf

The surge in the demand for higher education is closely connected with the liberalization and globalization of education. Websites and social media have been chosen for promotional purposes for obvious reasons – they are globally accessible. For rapid communication of a significant amount of information, virile institutional websites and social media spaces with promotional messages have become very important assets for higher institutions and their stakeholders. Transformation of Higher Education Through Institutional Online Spaces presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to promotional discourses as presented on higher institution online spaces. Covering topics such as brand building and marketing, content marketing, curriculum marketing, digital marketing, higher education digital marketing, and higher education marketing campaigns, this book is ideal for educational website managers, educational institution managers, public relations units, researchers, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351967730

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Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Specifically, the contributors to this volume examine grammatical resources for shaping elaborative, rhyming, and alliterative expressions, conveying the emotions, states, conditions and perceptions of speakers. These forms, often referred to expressives, remain relatively undocumented, until now. It is clear from the evidence on contextualized language use that the grammatically artistic usage of these forms enriches and enlivens both every day and ritualized genres of discourse. The contributors to this volume provide grammatical and sociolinguistic documentation through a typological introduction to the diversity of expressive forms in the languages of South Asia. This book is suitable for students and researchers in South Asian Languages, and language families of the following; Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic.

Author : Stephanie Schnurr,Kieran File
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110789829

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The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports by Stephanie Schnurr,Kieran File Pdf

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000048766

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Language, Society, and New Media by Marcel Danesi Pdf

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, in order to demonstrate how language undergirds human thought and social behaviors. It is designed as an introductory textbook aimed at students with little to no background in linguistics. Each chapter covers the main aspects of a particular topic or area of study, while also presenting future avenues of study. This edition includes discussions on: ● social media and the creation of identity; ● gestural communication; ● emoji writing; ● multimodality; ● human-computer interaction. Discussions are supported by a wealth of pedagogical features, including sidebars, as well as activities, assignments, and a glossary at the back. The overall aim is to demonstrate the dynamic connections between language, society, thought, and culture, and how they continue to evolve in today’s rapidly changing digital world. It is ideal for students in introductory courses in sociolinguistics, language and culture, and linguistic anthropology.

Author : Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110726626

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Approaches to Language and Culture by Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein Pdf

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

Author : Jan Lindström,Ritva Laury,Anssi Peräkylä,Marja-Leena Sorjonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259035

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Intersubjectivity in Action by Jan Lindström,Ritva Laury,Anssi Peräkylä,Marja-Leena Sorjonen Pdf

Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of intersubjectivity. The contributions show how language codes and creates intersubjectivity, how interactants move towards shared understanding in interaction, how intersubjectivity is central to phenomena and experiences often considered merely individual, and how intersubjectivity evolves through learning. While the core methodology of the studies is Conversation Analysis, the volume highlights the advantages of using several methods to tackle intersubjectivity.

Author : Janet Holmes,Nick Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000533996

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes,Nick Wilson Pdf

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it can be used to signal and interpret various aspects of social identity. Divided into three parts, this book explains basic sociolinguistic concepts in the light of classic approaches, as well as introducing more recent research. This sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout, using key concepts and examples to guide the reader through this fascinating area, including: • New material on gender, social media and online use of language, codeswitching, and language policy • An updated companion website that is fully cross- referenced within this book and features video and audio materials and links to useful websites • Revised examples and exercises that include new material from Asia and South America • Fully updated further reading and references sections An Introduction to Sociolinguistics is an essential introductory text for all students of sociolinguistics and a splendid point of reference for students of English language studies, linguistics, and applied linguistics.

Author : Francesco Mangiapane,Tiziana Migliore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030692407

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Images of Europe by Francesco Mangiapane,Tiziana Migliore Pdf

This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today’s world for determining the current “State of the Union”. The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneity – Roman and Carolingian imperial disposition – on the one hand, and by a model of fragmentation – a Europe of city-states, municipalities, regions and small fatherlands – on the other. In the European Union, a political and economic organism, this issue has recently been amplified to the point that it has reentered public debate, and political parties that are only recognizable for being Europeanists or anti-Europeanists are now ubiquitous. In this regard, one major bone of contention is how to portray the quintessential aspects of the European territory, which are either interpreted as “thresholds” to be overcome in the name of a model of United Europe – “integral totality” – or are instead regarded as insurmountable obstacles for a Europe that is irreparably and perhaps, according to anti-Europeanists, fortunately fragmented – “partitive totality”. Further, this is to be done without excluding the possibility of contradictory and complementary solutions to these binary visions. In this context the book analyzes various texts in order to obtain a more precise picture of the clash, reveal its semiotic forms, and by doing so, identify a way out of the crisis.

Author : Selin Grollmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004435230

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A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann Pdf

A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal morphology, predicate structures and syntax. In addition to the descriptive parts, this book encompasses a historical-comparative account of Bjokapakha. The introductory chapter provides a comparison with the standard variety of Tshangla and corroborates the internal diversity of the Tshangla branch. The present-day structure of Bjokapakha verbal morphology is illuminated by means of an internal reconstruction. Moreover, this book contains a glossary and a text collection.

Author : Zane Goebel,Deborah Cole,Howard Manns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429765209

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Contact Talk by Zane Goebel,Deborah Cole,Howard Manns Pdf

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the rapidly expanding field of linguistic anthropology. It does so using case studies of actual everyday language practices from an extremely understudied yet incredibly important area of the Global South: Indonesia. In doing so, it provides a rich set of studies that model and explain complex linguistic anthropological analysis in engaging and easily understood ways. As a book that is both accessible for undergraduate students and enlightening for graduate students through to senior professors, this book problematizes a wide range of assumptions. The diversity of settings and methodologies used in this book surpass many recent collections that attempt to address issues surrounding contemporary processes of diversification given rapid ongoing social change. In focusing on the trees, so to speak, the collection as a whole also enables readers to see the forest. This approach provides a rare insight into relationships between everyday language practices, social change, and the ever-present and ongoing processes of nation-building.

Author : Chris Collins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199336876

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Cross-Linguistic Studies of Imposters and Pronominal Agreement by Chris Collins Pdf

Imposters are third person DPs that are used to refer to the speaker/writer or addressee, such as : (i) Your humble servant finds the time before our next encounter very long. (ii) This reporter thinks that the current developments are extraordinary. (iii) Daddy will be back before too long. (iv) The present author finds the logic of the reply faulty. This volume explores verbal and pronominal agreement with imposters from a cross-linguistic perspective. The central questions for any given language are: (a) How do singular and plural imposters agree with the verb? (b) When a pronoun has an imposter antecedent, what are the phi-features of the pronoun? The volume reveals a remarkable degree of variation in the answers to these questions, but also reveals some underlying generalizations. The contributions describe imposters in Bangla, Spanish, Albanian, Indonesian, Italian, French, Romanian, Mandarin and Icelandic.