Language and Society
Author: William Downes
Publisher: Fontana Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
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Society and Language Use
Author: Jürgen Jaspers
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010-09-10
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9027289166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this seventh volume underlines the mutually constitutive relation between society and language use. It highlights a number of the most prominent approaches of this relation and it draws attention to a selected number of topics that the study of language in its social context has characteristically brought to bear. Despite their theoretical and methodological differences, each of the chapters in this book assumes that it is necessary to look at society and language use as interdependent phenomena, and that by attending to microscopic linguistic phenomena one is also keeping a finger on the pulse of broader, macroscopic social tendencies that at the same time facilitate and constrain language use. The introduction provides a sketch of the intellectual antecedents of the volume’s two ‘mother disciplines’, viz., linguistics and social theory before pointing at recent common ground in the rising attention for discourse and what has come to be called ‘late-modernity’.
Language and Society
Author: Andrew Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0190210672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLanguage and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world and how the growth of major national and official languages is threatening the continued existence of smaller, minority languages. As individuals adopt new ways of speaking, many languages are disappearing, others are evolving into hybrid languages with distinctive new forms, and even long-established languages are experiencing significant change, with young speakers creating novel expressions and innovative pronunciations. Making use of a wide range of case studies selected from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, Andrew Simpson describes and explains key factors causing language variation and change which relate to societal structures and the expression of group and personal identity. The volume also examines how speakers' knowledge of language acts as an important force controlling access to education, advances in employment and the development of social status. Additional topics discussed in the volume focus on the global growth of English, gendered patterns of language use, and the influence of language on perception.
Language in Society
Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-10-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0191607029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne Romaine provides a clear, lively, and accessible introduction to the field of sociolinguistics and emphasizes the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language and social class, language and gender, language and education, and pidgins and creoles. The text shows how our linguistic choices are motivated by social factors, and how certain ways of speaking come to be vested with symbolic value and includes examples drawing on studies of cultures and languages all over the world. This new edition incorporates new material on current issues in the study of gender as well as other topics such as the linguistic dimension to the ethnic conflict in the Balkans, and the controversy over Ebonics in the United States.
Introducing Language and Society
Author: Rodney H. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108498922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
Author: Ofelia García
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 0190212896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors explore a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes, and multimodality. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the limitations of modernist positivist perspectives, replacing them with novel, up-to-date ways of theorizing and researching. [Publisher]
Language and Society
Author: William Downes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-24
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780521456630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a clear and reliable introduction to the field of sociolinguistics.
Language, Society and Power
Author: Annabelle Mooney
Publisher:
Published: 2011-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415576581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer such questions as: How can a language reflect the status of children and older people? Do men and women talk differently? How can our use of language mark our ethnic identity? It also looks at language use in politics and the media and investigates how language affects and constructs our identities, exploring notions of correctness and attitudes towards language use. While it can be used as a stand-alone text, this edition of Language, Society and Power has also been fully cross-referenced with the new companion title: The Language, Society and Power Reader. Together these books provide the complete resource for students of English language and linguistics, media, communication, cultural studies, sociology and psychology. --Book Jacket.
Man, Language and Society
Author: S. K. Ghosh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-01-14
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 3110905280
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Language and Material Culture
Author: Allison Paige Burkette
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9027267944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture, and a general introduction to the study of complex adaptive systems. Following this general introduction, the principles of complexity theory are demonstrated in data drawn from linguistics and material culture studies. Language and Material Culture further highlights the principles of complexity through a series of case studies, using data from the Linguistic Atlas, colonial American inventories and the Historic American Building Survey. LMC shows that language and material culture are intertwined as they interact within the same cultural complex system. The book is designed for students in courses that focus on language variation, American English and material culture, in addition to general courses on applications of complex systems.
