Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Author: Charles A. Ferguson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996-02-15

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0195357701

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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.

Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994
Sociolinguistic Perspectives : Papers on Language in Society, 1959-1994

Author: Charles A. Ferguson Professor of Linguistics Stanford University (Emeritus)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996-01-18

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0198025319

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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.

Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics
Structuralist Studies in Arabic Linguistics

Author: Kirk Belnap

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9004348573

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Containing Charles Ferguson's papers on Arabic linguistics, this volume addresses issues of continuing concern in phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The introduction provides a biographical sketch, including excerpts from interviews with Ferguson in which he discusses his career and dealings with Arabic. A critical overview precedes each of the four sections (Diachronica, Phonology, Register and Genre, and General). This work fills an important gap in the history of linguistics in documenting much of the career and contributions of a formative figure in American linguistics. In addition to updating Ferguson's articles, the volume preserves Ferguson's reflections on the events, personalities, relationships, and issues at the time he wrote the articles, as well as on subsequent developments. A unique and fascinating picture of a pioneer linguist.

Childly Language
Childly Language

Author: Alison Sealey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1317884094

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Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English. It addresses such questions as: How is concern for children's safety and welfare reflected in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary English? and When we say that an adult is being 'childish', what are we saying about the characteristics of children?

Language, Society, and the State
Language, Society, and the State

Author: Gareth Price

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 161451464X

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Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic data and a comparative-historical method the book illustrates how language mediates interactions between society and the state and becomes politicized as a result; how language, politics and power are intertwined processes; and how these processes are not isolated in institutions but socially embedded.

Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament
Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament

Author: Hughson T. Ong

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 9004499741

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This book introduces sociolinguistic criticism to New Testament studies. It utilizes a wide range of sociolinguistic theories, principles, and concepts in treating the language and sociolinguistic contexts of the New Testament, social memory, orality and literacy, and the oral traditions of the Gospels, and various texts and genres in the New Testament.

Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization
Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization

Author: Nancy H. Hornberger

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 185359900X

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Joshua Fishman is perhaps best known and loved for his pioneering and enduring work in language loyalty and reversing language shift. This volume brings together a selection of his writings on these topics and some of his personal perspectives on the field of sociolinguistics.

The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics
The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Author: Ruth Wodak

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 649

ISBN-13: 1847870953

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This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results and key figures involved in sociolinguistics. The result is a work of unprecedented coverage and insight. It is all here, from the foundational contributions to the field to the impact of new media, new technologies of communication, globalization, trans-border fluidities and agendas of research.