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Author: William Labov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-09
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0521821223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond edition of William Labov's groundbreaking study, in which he looks back on forty years of achievements in sociolinguistics.
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 1139500937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Ingrid Piller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-02-18
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0199937257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and imparity of political participation, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice employs a case-study approach to real-world instances of linguistic injustice. Linguistic diversity is a universal characteristic of human language but linguistic diversity is rarely neutral; rather it is accompanied by linguistic stratification and linguistic subordination. Domains critical to social justice include employment, education, and community participation. The book offers a detailed examination of the connection between linguistic diversity and inequality in these specific contexts within nation states that are organized as liberal democracies. Inequalities exist not only between individuals and groups within a state but also between states. Therefore, the book also explores the role of linguistic diversity in global injustice with a particular focus on the spread of English as a global language. While much of the analysis in this book focuses on language as a means of exclusion, discrimination and disadvantage, the concluding chapter asks what the content of linguistic justice might be.
Author: Ute Knoch
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781781799512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ability to speak and write effectively is widely recognized as an important skill in many contexts and for many purposes, both personal, educational and professional. Because these skills are considered important in second and foreign language learning contexts, they are often included in performance assessments. The scoring of such performances is, however, a complex undertaking and has attracted much attention, both in first and second language learning contexts. The increasing use of automated scoring systems has added to this complexity in recent years. It is therefore all the more surprising that there is no book available that provides an overview of this topic area - the scoring of second language performances. This monograph fills this gap, by drawing together the latest literature in the area. It focusses on issues relating to both rater-mediated assessments and sets out consideration in relation to automated scoring systems (and other technology) which are increasingly used in our field. This monograph provides a useful introduction to graduate students, researchers, test developers, other practitioners and teachers to this topic which has in many ways dominated the field of language assessment over many decades.
Author: Nikolas Coupland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-20
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1316684024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and researchers, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society. 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: Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781799017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces the notion of system as the foundation of the systemic functional architecture of language.
Author: Heinz J. Giegerich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-16
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1139425226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Lexical Strata in English, Heinz Giegerich investigates the way in which alternations in the sound patterns of words interact with the morphological processes of the language. Drawing examples from English and German, he uncovers and spells out in detail the principles of 'lexical morphology and phonology', a theory that has in recent years become increasingly influential in linguistics. Giegerich queries many of the assumptions made in that theory, overturning some and putting others on a principled footing. What emerges is a formally coherent and highly constrained theory of the lexicon - the theory of 'base-driven' stratification - which predicts the number of lexical strata from the number of base-category distinctions recognized in the morphology of the language. Finally, he offers accounts of some central phenomena in the phonology of English (including vowel 'reduction', [r]-sandhi and syllabification), which both support and are uniquely facilitated by this new theory.
Author: Lucy Burke
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780415186810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity.
Author: Francesco La Mantia
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-16
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 3319294830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry. In particular, the book is divided into three parts, each one addressing one of the following topics: 1) Facing complexity in the right way: mathematics and complexity 2) Complexity and theory of language 3) From empirical observation to formal models: investigation of specific linguistic phenomena, like enunciation, deixis, or the meaning of the metaphorical phrases The application of complexity theory to describe cognitive phenomena is a recent and very promising trend in cognitive science. At the time when dynamical approaches triggered a paradigm shift in cognitive science some decade ago, the major topic of research were the challenges imposed by classical computational approaches dealing with the explanation of cognitive phenomena like consciousness, decision making and language. The target audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate and post-graduate students who want to enter the field.
Author: Rhonda F. Levine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780742546325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together the classic statements on social stratification, this collection offers the most significant contributions to ongoing debates on the nature of race, class, and gender inequality.
