Sociolinguistics Books
De Gruyter Readings in the Sociology of Language
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De Gruyter The Functions of Folk Costume in Moravian Slovakia
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Preface to the English Edition -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Petr Bogatyrev and Structural Ethnography -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structural Interrelationship of Costume Functions -- 3. 'Holiday', 'Ceremonial' and 'Ritual' -- 4. Multiple Functions of Costume Parts When Combined With Others -- 5. Transition of Costume from Everyday Through Ritual Stages and the Functional Changes Involved -- 6. Occupational Dress in a Given Community -- 7. Distinctions in Wealth and Social Status as Shown in Costume -- 8. The Magical Function of Costume -- 9. Regionalistic and Nationalistic Functions of Costume -- 10. An Example of an Analysis by the Functional Method of the Disappearance of a Costume -- 11. Functions of Costume Which Indicate the Religious Affiliation of the Wearer -- 12. Functions Indicating the Wearer's Age and Marital Status -- 13. The Headwear of Unwed Mothers -- 14. The Erotic Function of Costume -- 15. The Function of Children's Costume -- 16. Costume as a Sign -- 17. The Function of Everyday Costume -- 18. The Interdependence of Form and Function in Costume: A Change in Costume as a Change in the Whole Structure of Life -- 19. The General Function (The Function of the Structure of Functions) - 'Our Costume' -- 20. The Interdependence of the Functional Structure and the Individual Functions. The Functional Method Expands the Subject Matter of Ethnography. Conclusion -- 21. The Structural-Functional Method in the Study of Village Buildings, Farm Implements and Other Items of Material Culture, as Well as Folklore (Magic, Folk Tales, Songs, Incantations, etc.) -- Glossary -- Illustrations
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De Gruyter Modern Greek and American English in Contact
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De Gruyter Ideologies of Linguistic Relativity
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De Gruyter Language Shift in the United States
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De Gruyter Perspectives on American English
Book SynopsisThe Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
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De Gruyter A Festschrift for Native Speaker
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Walter de Gruyter Logique Moderne, Fasc II, Logique des propositions et des prédicats, tables de vérité et axiomatisation
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De Gruyter Portrait of a Patriot: Selected Writings
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De Gruyter Acceptability in Language
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De Gruyter Towards a Social Grammar of Language
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De Gruyter Issues in Sociolinguistics
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De Gruyter Descriptive Linguistics
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De Gruyter Linguistics and Literature / Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics
Book SynopsisTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.
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De Gruyter Language and Society: Anthropological Issues
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De Gruyter New Guinea and Neighboring Areas: A Sociolinguistic Laboratory
Book SynopsisThe Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines – anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
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De Gruyter Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales
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The University of Alabama Press everybodysautonomy
Book SynopsisWhile reader-centred texts have been criticized as undemocratic and exclusionary, the author instead argues that they empower readers, granting them equal authority with the author. She shows that reading these texts is a communal activity, anti-hierarchical and resolutely democratic.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation Speaking in Tongues
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Purdue University Press Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Book SynopsisProverbs constitute a rich archive of historical, cultural, and linguistic significance that affect genres and linguistics codes. They circulate through writers, texts, and communities in a process that ultimately results in modifications in their structure and meanings. Hence, context plays a crucial role in defining proverbs as well as in determining their interpretation. Vincenzo Brusantino's Le cento novella (1554), John Florio's Firste Fruites (1578) and Second Frutes (1591), and Pompeo Sarnelli's Posilecheata (1684) offer clear representations of how traditional wisdom and communal knowledge reflect the authors' personal perspectives on society, culture, and literature. The analysis of the three authors' proverbs through comparisons with classical, medieval, and early modern collections of maxims and sententiae provides insights on the fluidity of such expressions, and illustrates the tight relationship between proverbs and sociocultural factors. Brusantino's proverbs introduce ethical interpretations to the one hundred novellas of Boccaccio's The Decameron, which he rewrites in octaves of hendecasyllables. His text appeals to Counter-Reformation society and its demand for a comprehensible and immediately applicable morality. In Florio's two bilingual manuals, proverbs fulfill a need for language education in Elizabethan England through authentic and communicative instruction. Florio manipulates the proverbs' vocabulary and syntax to fit the context of his dialogues, best demonstrating the value of learning Italian in a foreign country. Sarnelli's proverbs exemplify the inherent creative and expressive potentialities of the Neapolitan dialect vis-?á-vis languages with a more robust literary tradition. As moral maxims, ironic assessments, or witty insertions, these proverbs characterize the Neapolitan community in which the fables take place.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Criteria for Transcription Notes on Quotations, Translations, and Abbreviations Chapter One: Literary History and Theories of Paremias Chapter Two: Vincenzo Brusantino's Le cento novella: Paremias and Tridentine Ethics in Reinterpreting the Decameron Chapter Three: John Florio's Firste Fruites and Second Frutes: Paremias and Elizabethan Teaching of the Italian Language Chapter Four: Pompeo Sarnelli's Posilecheata: Paremias and the Multifaceted Neapolitan Baroque Conclusion Index of Paremias in Le cento novella, Firste Fruites, Second Frutes, and Posilecheata Notes Works Consulted Index of Names
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Oxford University Press Inc To Be Real Truth and Racial Authenticity in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: "The Arab is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony and Tragedy of 9/11 Chapter 2: "Why we gotta be refugees?": Empathizing Authenticity in African American Hurricane Katrina Humor Chapter 3: On Michael Richards, Racial Authenticity, and the N-Word Chapter 4: "It's about to get real": Kevin Hart as a Modern-Day Trickster Chapter 5: Humor, Me: A (Tentative) Conclusion Bibliography Appendix
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Oxford University Press Inc The United States of English
Book SynopsisThe story of how English became American -- and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African-American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans spoke was recognizably different from the British variety. Americans added dozens of new words to the language, either borrowed from Native Americans (raccoon, persimmon, caucus) or created from repurposed English (backwoods, cane brake, salt lick). Americans had their own pronunciations (bath rhymed with hat, not hot) and their own spelling (honor, not honour), not to mention a host of new expressions that grew out of the American landscape and culture (blaze a trail, back track, pull up stakes). Americans even invented their own slang, like stiff as a ringbolt to mean drunk. American English has continued to grow and change ever since. The United States of English tells the engrossing tale of how the American language evolved over four hundred yTrade ReviewFrom a rich body of literature, Ostler mines material for this special history of the United States with the stories and reasons for creating the uniquely American language. * Robert S. Davis, New York Journal of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Beginnings of American English Chapter 2: Early Regional Dialects Chapter 3: Building the Vocabulary Chapter 4: American Grammar and Usage Chapter 5: The Spread of Regional Speech Chapter 6: Ethnic Dialects Chapter 7: Language Innovation outside the Mainstream Chapter 8: The Social Life of American English Chapter 9: American English Today Afterword: American English Tomorrow Appendix: American Vowels Endnotes Select Bibliography
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OUP India Inclusion in Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Inclusion in Linguistics, the companion volume to Decolonizing Linguistics, aims to reinvent linguistics as a space of belonging across race, gender, class, disability, geographic region, and more. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline. The volume''s introduction theorizes inclusion as fundamental to social justice and describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed. Contributors discuss intersectional forms of exclusion in linguistics: researchers'' anti-autistic ableism; the exclusion of Deaf Global South researchers of color; the marginalization of Filipino American students and scholars; disc
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Oxford University Press English Begins at Jamestown Narrating the History
Book SynopsisEnglish Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status as a global language. It shows that there are better, worse, and wrong ways to relate the language's history, even if there cannot necessarily be one correct way.Trade ReviewTim Machan's book is a much-needed exploration of the stories that we tell ourselves about the history of the English language. Fascinating, engaging, and original, this work ranges across centuries of the linguistic past, providing important historiographical analysis and inviting us to think in new ways about the field and practices of English language history. * Colette Moore, University of Washington *English Begins at Jamestown is an original and thought-provoking take on how to write the history of English. With wit and verve it explores the often unspoken intellectual underpinnings of the enterprise and it should be required reading for all those interested in the history of any language. * Paul Russell, University of Cambridge *English Begins at Jamestown will be an excellent supplement to histories of English, and it is a must-read for historians of English...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press A History of the Scots Language
Book SynopsisThis book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language of high literature, it has been somewhat neglected and has often been treated as a dialect of Standard English. In this book, Robert McColl Millar explores both sociolinguistic and structural developments in the history of Scots, bringing together these two threads of analysis to offer a better understanding of linguistic change. The first half of the book tracks the development of Scots from its beginnings to the modern period, while chapters in the second half offer detailed descriptions of Scots historical phonology and morphosyntax, and of the historical development of Scots lexis. A History of the Scots Language will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of the modern and historical Scots lTable of Contents1: What is Scots? 2: Historical and linguistic backgrounds: the Germanic languages, Old English and the pre-Scots period 3: Scots in the Medieval and Early Modern periods 4: Scots in decline? The Modern Age 5: Historical phonology of Scots 6: Historical morphosyntax of Scots 7: Historical development of Scots lexis 8: Conclusions
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Oxford University Press Inc Spanish in Chicago
Book SynopsisSpanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change and identity constructions and establishing their likely causes.Drawing on interviews with 124 individuals across three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans, Potowski and Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact through close sociolinguistic analysis of lexicon, discourse markers, codeswitching, the subjunctive, and phonology. Their analysis uniquely examines these features across three generations of speakers and two different regional origins within the same corpus. By including MexiRicans as aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Spanish in the U.S. and in Chicago: Contact and Loss Chapter 2: The Chicago (Chi-) Spanish (Spa-) "CHISPA" corpus Chapter 3: Lexical Familiarity Chapter 4: Discourse Markers Chapter 5: Codeswitching Chapter 6: Subjunctive Chapter 7: Phonology Chapter 8: Factors Underlying Spanish Development Chapter 9: Conclusions
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Oxford University Press Inc Spanish in Chicago
Book SynopsisSpanish in Chicago is the first book-length study of Spanish in Chicago, where populations originating in both Mexico and Puerto Rico have lived in contact for generations and Latinos now comprise nearly a third of the population. Identifying Chicago as a rich site for examining language and dialect contact at both community and family levels, Kim Potowski and Lourdes Torres describe the spoken Spanish of Chicago, analyzing patterns of language change and identity constructions and establishing their likely causes.Drawing on interviews with 124 individuals across three generations of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Chicagoans, Potowski and Torres trace the effects of language and dialect contact through close sociolinguistic analysis of lexicon, discourse markers, codeswitching, the subjunctive, and phonology. Their analysis uniquely examines these features across three generations of speakers and two different regional origins within the same corpus. By including MexiRicans as aTable of ContentsChapter 1: Spanish in the U.S. and in Chicago: Contact and Loss Chapter 2: The Chicago (Chi-) Spanish (Spa-) "CHISPA" corpus Chapter 3: Lexical Familiarity Chapter 4: Discourse Markers Chapter 5: Codeswitching Chapter 6: Subjunctive Chapter 7: Phonology Chapter 8: Factors Underlying Spanish Development Chapter 9: Conclusions
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Abson Books London ScouseEnglish Glossary
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Cambridge University Press You Cant Always Say What You Want
Book SynopsisThe freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today''s calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.Trade Review'The landscape of free speech is in constant flux, and Baron provides important context to the current debates.' Kirkus Reviews'… ambitious and timely …' James Rhoades, Library JournalTable of Contents1. Free speech, but...; 2. Guns and grammar; 3. Clear and present danger; 4. Strong language; 5. Threat level: orange; 6. America's war on language; 7. Repeat after me; 8. Will free speech survive?
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Cambridge University Press Language in Culture
Book SynopsisLanguage enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (19452020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures.Focusing not just on what people say buthowwe say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discoursefar exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity.Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau''spantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebearsin linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefinTrade Review'Brilliant, comprehensive, and always thought-provoking, Language in Culture is a truly singular contribution. Silverstein has brought his subtle and elegantly laid-out theoretical approach together with the acute and generative exploration of detailed exemplary cases - and always in his own distinctive and engaging voice. This is bound to be an immediate classic of lasting resonance.' Don Brenneis, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz'This treasure of a book lays out the total linguistic fact, with all of Silverstein's classic brilliance, erudition, and mischievousness.' Penelope Eckert, Albert Ray Lang Professor Emerita, Stanford University'It's difficult to find words to characterize adequately Michael Silverstein's genius, or the significance of his work. He is a singular figure. It's tempting to think of him as a kind of Saussure for our century, except that, as this elegantly constructed volume reveals, Silverstein disassembles Saussure's framework and uses the component parts - along with myriad elements from elsewhere (Peirce, Whorf, Sapir, Jakobson, Bakhtin, and many others) - to build a wondrous new construction that allows a breathtakingly rich view of how language works and of what happens when we use it.' Michael Lucey, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature and French, University of California, Berkeley'With his signature searing clarity and punning wit, Michael Silverstein at long last lays out in print what decades of students have heard - the detailed, layered, and at once remarkably robust and subtle semiotic mechanisms through which we co-construct our worlds, or wreck them, hold them in a precarious order or teeter off course.' Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Getting – and getting across – the message; Lecture 1: Text; Lecture 2: Event; Lecture 3: Context; Lecture 4: Enregisterment; Lecture 5: Variation; Lecture 6: Categoriality; Lecture 7: Relativity; Lecture 8: Knowledge; Editorial acknowledgments; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional
Book SynopsisPresenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical perspectives. Written by some of the world''s foremost SFL scholars, including M. A. K. Halliday, the founder of SFL theory, the handbook covers topics ranging from the theory behind the model, discourse analysis within SFL, applied SFL, to SFL in relation to other subfields of linguistics such as intonation, typology, clinical linguistics and education. Chapters include discussion on the possible future directions in which research might be conducted and issues that can be further investigated and resolved. Readers will be inspired to pursue the challenges raised within the volume, both theoretically and practically.Table of ContentsIntroduction Wendy L. Bowcher, Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal; Part I. SFL: The Model: 1. Firth and the origins of systemic functional linguistics: process, pragma, and polysystem David G. Butt; 2. Key concepts and the architecture of language in the SFL model Jonathan J. Webster; 3. Semantics Miriam Taverniers; 4. The clause: an overview of the lexicogrammar Margaret Berry; 5. The rooms of the house: grammar at group rank Lise Fontaine and David Schönthal; 6. Context and register Wendy L. Bowcher; 7. Intonation Wendy L. Bowcher and Meena Debashish; 8. Continuing issues in SFL Mick O'Donnell; 9. The Cardiff model of functional syntax Anke Schulz and Lise Fontaine; 10. SFL in context Christopher S. Butler; Part II. Discourse Analysis within SFL: 11. Models of discourse in systemic functional linguistics Tom Bartlett; 12. Cohesion and conjunction Maite Taboada; 13. Semantic networks Andy Fung and Francis Robert Low; 14. Discourse semantics J. R. Martin; 15. Appraisal Susan Hood; 16. SFL and diachronic studies David Banks; 17. SFL and multimodal discourse analysis Kay L. O'Halloran, Sabine Tan and Peter Wignell; 18. SFL and critical discourse analysis Gerard O'Grady; Part III. SFL in Application: 19. Language development Geoff Williams; 20. Applying SFL for understanding and fostering instructed second language development Heidi Byrnes; 21. Language and education: learning to mean Peter Mickan; 22. Systemic functional linguistics and computation: new directions, new challenges John Bateman, Daniel McDonald, Tuomo Hiippala, Daniel Couto-Vale and Eugeniu Costetchi; 23. Clinical linguistics Elissa Asp and Jessica de Villiers; 24. Language and science, language in science, and linguistics as science M. A. K. Halliday and David G. Butt; 25. Language and medicine Alison Rotha Moore; 26. Language and literature Donna R. Miller; 27. Language and social media: enacting identity through ambient affiliation Michele Zappavigna; 28. Theorizing and modeling translation Erich Steiner; 29. Language typology Abhishek Kumar Kashyap; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Interactional Linguistics
Book SynopsisThe first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation, ascription, and sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way that linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, and particles - are mobilized for the implementation of specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language as well as its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters explore additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language. Featuring suTrade Review'… 'Interactional Linguistics. Studying Language in Social Interaction' is a monumental and well-executed effort, as well as a timely one.' Karolina Zofia Grzech, Linguist List (new.linguistlist.org)'… an impressive compilation of materials otherwise dispersed in journals, books and other academic publications. I envision this book as a primary text for introductory and advanced courses in linguistics for undergraduate and graduate students. … a key resource for students, instructors and researchers alike.' Francesca A. Williamson, Discourse StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. What is interactional linguistics?; Part I. How Is Interaction Conducted with Linguistic Resources?: 2. Turn construction and turn taking; 3. Repair; 4. Action formation and ascription; 5. Topic and sequence; Part II. How are Linguistic Resources Deployed in Interaction?; 6. Sentences, clauses, and phrases; 7. Clause combinations; 8. One-word constructions: particles; Conclusion: 9. Implications for language theory.
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Cambridge University Press Purrieties of Language
Book SynopsisAfter conquering the Internet, cats are now taking on linguistics! Since the advent of social media, cats have become a topic central to online communication, and the multitude of cat-related accounts now online has made this a world-wide phenomenon. Through cat-inspired varieties of language, we have developed a genre of cat-inspired vocabulary. And on our special social media accounts for our cats, we take on their identities, as we post, write, talk, and chat - as our feline friends. This innovative book provides linguistic analyses of the cyber ''Cativerse'', exploring online language variation, and explaining key linguistic concepts all through the lens of cat-related communication. Each chapter explores a different sociolinguistic phenomena, drawing on fun and engaging examples including memes, hashtags, captions and ''LOLcats'', from platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Innovative yet accessible, it is catnip for all ''hoomans'' interested in how languageTable of Contents1. The cativerse; 2. The feline territory of language; 3. Meowlogisms; 4. Da kittehz; 5. Virtual furever homes; 6. Multimeowdality; 7. Meow and more; 8. Going on pawtrol; 9. Linguistic scratching posts; 10. #StatsWithCats; 11. Cattitude and Purrception.
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Palgrave Macmillan New Geographies of Language Language Culture and
Book SynopsisThis book develops a novel approach to the study of language, bringing it into dialogue with the latest geographical concepts and concerns and provides a comprehensive account of the geography of Welsh language analysing policy development, language use, ability and shift. The authors examine in particular: the different ways in which languages can be mapped; how geographical insights can be used to develop understandings of language use; the value of assemblage theory as a way of interpreting the social, technical and spatial aspects of language policy development; and the geographies that characterise institutional engagements with languages. This book will set a research agenda for the geographical study of language, developing a conceptual framework that will offer fresh insights to researchers in the fields of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Minority Languages, Geolinguistics, and Public Policy. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing the geographies of languages.- Chapter 2: Charting the new the geographies of languages.- Chapter 3: Wales and the Welsh language: setting the context.- Chapter 4: The geographies of language ability.- Chapter 5: Making sense of language use.- Chapter 6: The geographies of language policy in Wales.- Chapter 7: Languages and institutional geographies.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.
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Palgrave Macmillan Challenges and Opportunities in Public Service
Book SynopsisChapters focus on how all stakeholders need to appreciate the wider context of political and economic realities whilst collaborating more responsibly to deliver the conditions, training and support needed for expert linguists to be attracted to and retained in this vital profession.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction. -PART I: The present and the future of the public service interpreting marketplace. -Introduction to PART I. -Chapter 1: Assessing current stakeholders’ needs and expectations. -Chapter 2: Professionalisation and standardisation of Public Service Interpreting. -Chapter 3: Stakeholders’ guide and handbook. -Chapter 4: Fit-to-practise versus exam-ready legal public service interpreter training; training for real-life or for the exam?. -Chapter 5: Towards a Unified Model for Interpreter User Training in Communication via an Interpreter: The Norwegian Experience. -PART II: The interface of interpreter mediated encounters and training opportunities in public service interpreting. -Introduction to PART II. -Chapter 6: Insight into ethical dilemmas in Public Service Interpreting and interpreters’ training needs. -Chapter 7: Public Service Interpreting and Business Negotiation Interpreting: Friends or Foes?. -Chapter 8: Foreigners before Themis: Legal Interpreting in Greece. -General Conclusion.
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