Sociolinguistics Books
Oxford University Press Inc How We Read Now
Book SynopsisAn engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the field We face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the only viable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning--and what strategies we need in order to read effectively in all formats. In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices, Baron addresses key challenges--from student complaints that print is boring to the hazards of digital reading for critical thinking. Rather than arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current state of reading. The book then crucially connects research insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video. Since screens and audio are now entrenched--and invaluable-platforms for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do that.Trade ReviewBaron's work provides a weighted and critical description of printed and digital environments from an educational point of view, focusing on those factors of improvement that each of them entails. One of its main contributions is the introduction of audio and video analysis as complementary forms of reading that are becoming more and more important as the platforms for their use expand, and the services offered increase. * José Antonio Cordón, University of Salamanca, Escola de Llibreria *Beyond being eminently readable, How We Read Now is also inspiring in terms of design. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals; general readers. * P. Finley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, CHOICE *A well-researched, accessible treatise on all the ways we experience and absorb words... Educating tomorrows generations is of urgent importance to all of us, and for that reason, How We Read Now is must reading. Baron does not prescribe particular reading platforms, but rather enables us to better assess all the possibilities... Baron's light, conversational style makes for enjoyable reading - whether in print or on a screen. * Bárbara Mujica, Washington Independent Review of Books *Table of ContentsForeword by Maryanne Wolf List of Tables and Figures Introduction: The New Great Debate in Reading Part I Sizing Up Reading What's at Stake? Chapter 1: What Do We Mean by "Reading" and "Reader"? Chapter 2: What are You Reading? Chapter 3: Print Reading: A Gold Standard? Part II Reading in Print versus Onscreen What's at Stake? Chapter 4: What Research Tells Us: Single Texts Chapter 5: What Research Tells Us: Multiple Texts Chapter 6: Strategies for Effective Reading Onscreen Part III Reading with Audio What's at Stake? Chapter 7: What Research Tells Us about Audio (and Video) Chapter 8: Strategies for Effective Reading with Audio (and Video) Part IV What's Next? What's at Stake? Chapter 9: Strategizing Reading in a Digital World Chapter 10: The Road Ahead Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£24.49
OUP India Life in a New Language
Book SynopsisInternational migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and communication barriers can compromise equitable access in diverse societies, and where socioeconomic disadvantage becomes entrenched, it poses risks to security, productivity and quality of life. Clearly this is an important issue, and migrants and their language choices are heavily politicized; though political and media debates often rely on anecdotal conjecture or are ill-informed.Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America over a period of 20 years. Reusing data shared from six separate sociolinguistic ethnographies, the book illuminates participants'' lived experience of learning and communicating in a new language, finding work, and doing family. Additionally, participants'' experiences with racism and identity making in a new context are explored. The research uncovers significant hardship but also migrants'' courage and resilience. The book has implications for language service provision, migration policy, open science, and social justice movements.
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Oxford University Press Inc Language and Society
Book SynopsisLanguage 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 speaTrade Reviewa behemoth undertaking ... a suitable textbook with a copious amount of captivating language-oriented examples and illustrations for students not yet familiar with studies concerned with language and society. * Tyler Barrett, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics *Professor Simpson's book is one of the best introductions to sociolinguistics to come out in recent years, and exactly the kind of textbook that I was hoping to assign to my students. It is extraordinarily comprehensive, with a wide range of topics explored thoroughly and illustrated with case studies and examples from across the world and from many linguistic contexts. It is a truly global textbook. Perhaps most significantly, the book opens with chapters of multilingualism and language contact, establishing these as central to sociolinguistics, and this focus on multilingualism is sustained throughout the book, which is a very refreshing and long overdue approach. * Dominika M. Baran, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Duke University *Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1: Languages and Dialects Chapter 2: Languages with Special Roles/functions: National and Official Languages Chapter 3: Languages Under Pressure: Minority Groups and Language Loss Chapter 4: Diglossia and Code-Switching Chapter 5: Pidgins and Creoles: The Birth and Development of New Languages Chapter 6: The Globalization of English Chapter 7: Language(s) in the USA Chapter 8: Bilingualism Chapter 9: Language and Thought: The Linguistic Relativity Controversy Chapter 10: Language and Gender Chapter 11: Language Variation and Change References Subject Index
£61.75
OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more broadly inclusive view of sociolinguistics. Hence there is a need for a handbook that will survey the main areas of the field, point out the lacunae in our existing knowledge base, and provide directions for future research.The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics will differ from existing work in four major respects. First, it will emphasize new methodological developments, particularly the convergence of linguistic anthropology and variationist sociolinguistics. Second, it will include chapters on sociolinguistic developments in areas of the worldTrade Review... an invaluable new contribution to the field of sociolinguists ... While it certainly stands out for its careful organization of abundant material, it must be especially praised for the special attention given to relevant topics that pertain to modern-day social preoccupations. In this sense, it will no doubt inspire those in the field to further their research ... this handbook is a unique and welcomed addition to the Oxford Handbook collection * Pablo Pintado-Casas, LINGUIST *The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics contains many insightful chapters, especially on sociolinguistic variation and on language attitudes and policy * Philipp S Angermeyer, Journal of Sociolinguistics *The...handbook benefits from the fact that all of the authors are outstanding scholars who are extremely well known in their respective areas of expertise... [G]raduate students who are interested in sociolinguistic studies are most likely to benefit from reading this handbook in its entirety, because the editors have taken great care to account for a combination of theoretical and practical insights regarding studies of language in social contexts. * Language *Table of ContentsCONTENTS ; Contributors ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Introduction ; Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas ; Part I. Disciplinary Perspectives ; 1. Variationist Sociolinguistics ; Robert Bayley ; 2. Linguistic Anthropology ; Janet Shibamotoe-Smith and Vineeta Chand ; 3. Doers and Makers: The Interwoven Stories of Sociology and the Study of Language ; Christopher McAll ; 4. Critical Discourse Analysis ; Martin Reisigl ; 5. Conversation Analysis ; Paul Seedhouse ; 6. The Intersections of Language Socialization and Sociolinguistics ; Karen Watson-Gegeo and Matthew C. Bronson ; 7. Psycholinguistic Approaches ; Brandon C. Loudermilk ; 8. Interdisciplinary Approaches ; Christine Mallinson and Tyler Kendall ; Part II. Methodologies and Approaches ; 9. Studies of the Community and the Individual ; James A. Walker and Miriam Meyerhoff ; 10. Experimental Methods for Measuring Intelligibility of Closely Related Language Varieties ; Charlotte Gooskens ; 11. Quantitative Analysis ; Kyle Gorman and Daniel Ezra Johnson ; 12. Analyzing Qualitative Data: Mapping the Research Trajectory in Multilingual Contexts ; Juliet Langman ; 13. Longitudinal Studies ; Gillian Sankoff ; 14. Methods for Studying Sign Languages ; Ceil Lucas ; Part III. Bilingualism and Language Contact ; 15. Pidgins and Creoles ; Eric Russell Webb ; 16. Language Maintenance and Shift ; Kim Potowski ; 17. Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition ; Martin Howard, Raymond Mougeon, and Jean-Marc Dewaele ; 18. Codeswitching ; Li Wei ; 19. Sign Language Contact ; David Quinto-Pozos and Robert Adam ; Part IV. Variation ; 20. Sociophonetics ; Maciej Baranowski ; 21. Phonology and Sociolinguistics ; Naomi Nagy ; 22. Morphosyntactic Variation ; Ruth King ; 23. Pragmatics and Sociolinguistic Variation ; Richard Cameron and Scott Schwenter ; 24. Variation and Change ; Alexandra D'Arcy ; 25. Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in Sign Languages ; Adam Schembri and Trevor Johnston ; Part V. Language Policy, Language Ideology, and Language Attitudes ; 26. Language Policy, Ideology, and Attitudes in English-Dominant Countries ; Thomas Ricento ; 27. Language Policies and Language Attitudes in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Vernacularization ; Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu ; 28. Language Policy and Ideology: Greater China ; Qing Zhang ; 29. Language Policies and Politics in South Asia ; Vineeta Chand ; 30. Language Policy and Ideology in Latin America ; Enrique Rainer Hamel ; 31. Language Policy, Ideology, and Attitudes in Western Europe ; Francois Grin ; 32. Language Management in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Countries ; Aneta Pavlenko ; 33. Language Policy and Attitudes towards Sign Languages ; Joseph Hill ; Part VI. Sociolinguistics, the Professions, and the Public Interest ; 34. Language and Law ; Gregory Matoesian ; 35. Our Stories, Ourselves: Can the Culture of a Large Medical School Be Changed without Open Heart Surgery? ; Richard M. Frankel ; 36. Sociolinguistic Studies of Sign Language Interpreting ; Cynthia Roy and Melanie Metzger ; 37. Language Awareness in Community Perspective: Obligation and Opportunity ; Walt Wolfram ; 38. Linguistic and Ecological Diversity ; Suzanne Romaine ; 39. Language Revitalization ; Lenore A. Grenoble ; 40. Linguistics and Social Activism ; Anne H. Charity Hudley
£49.40
Oxford University Press RACIOLINGUISTICS C How Language Shapes Our Ideas
Book SynopsisRaciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race. This team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-shares powerful, much-needed research to help us understand the increasingly vexed relationships between race, ethnicity, and language in our rapidly changing world.Trade ReviewAlim, Rickford and Ball have assembled an excellent set of essays that challenge the way we construct social reality. The combined force of the book is more than academic. It is a call for action in the political realm and in our personal interactions ... The book admirably introduces readers to a new field of inquiry and opens up vistas for potential future research on the questions it raises. * Larry L. LaFond, Linguist *All the authors were adept at portraying the linguistic landscape related to race, challenging assumptions about connections between race and language, and at providing new intellectual contributions regarding raciolinguistics. They help us understand the increasing complexities of a changing world, and to envision how to make that world a more hospitable place for all. * Larry L. LaFond, Linguist *Though taking differing approaches, the essays work together toward the same goal, which is to explore the complex relationships between language and race. Discussion of contemporary topics such as rap and hip-hop music, new media, and reality television will appeal to college students (of traditional age), and the writing style throughout the book is relatively approachable. This book is particularly valuable given the transition from Barack Obamas administration to that of Donald Trump, since presidential policies affect not only the US but also the rest of the world. * K. C. Williams, Choice *Table of ContentsNEW: Preface to the Paperback Edition: Language, Race, and the Academy: Building Intellectual Community beyond the Confines of Our Institutional Constraints H. Samy Alim Introducing Raciolinguistics: Racing Language and Languaging Race in Hyperracial Times H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles 1. Who's Afraid of the Transracial Subject?: Raciolinguistics and the Political Project of Transracialization H. Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles 2. From Upstanding Citizen to North American Rapper and Back Again: The Racial Malleability of Poor Male Brazilian Youth Jennifer Roth-Gordon, University of Arizona 3. From Mock Spanish to Inverted Spanglish: Language Ideologies and the Racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth in the United States Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University 4. The Meaning of Chin- Chong: Language, Racism, and Response in New Media Elaine W. Chun, University of South Carolina 5. "Suddenly faced with a Chinese Village": The Linguistic Racialization of Asian Americans Adrienne Lo, University of Waterloo 6. Ethnicity and Extreme Locality in South Africa's Multilingual Hip Hop Ciphas Quentin E. Williams, University of the Western Cape 7. Norteño and Sureño Gangs, Hip Hop, and Ethnicity on YouTube: Localism in California through Spanish Accent Variation Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles Part II. Racing Language 8. Toward Heterogeneity: A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Classification of Black People in the Twenty-First Century Renée Blake, New York University 9. Jews of Color: Performing Black Jewishness through the Creative Use of Two Ethnolinguistic Repertoires Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College 10. Pharyngeal Beauty and Depharyngealized Geek: Performing Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV Roey Gafter, Tel Aviv University 11. Stance as a Window into the Language-Race Connection: Evidence from African American and White Speakers in Washington, D.C. Robert J. Podesva, Stanford University 12. Changing Ethnicities: The Evolving Speech Styles of Punjabi Londoners Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London Part III. Language, Race, and Education in Changing Communities 13. "It Was a Black City": African American Language in California's Changing Urban Schools and Communities Django Paris, Michigan State University 14. Zapotec, Mixtec, and Purepecha Youth: Multilingualism and the Marginalization of Indigenous Immigrants in the United States William Perez, Claremont Graduate University; Rafael Vasquez, Universidad Autonóma; and Raymond Burie, Pomona College 15. On Being Called Out of One's Name: Indexical Bleaching as a Technique of Deracialization Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara 16. Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Essentializing Ethnic Moroccan and Roma Identities in Classroom Discourse in Spain Inmaculada García-Sánchez, University of California, Los Angeles 17. The Voicing of Asian American Figures: Korean Linguistic Styles at an Asian American Cram School Angela Reyes, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY 18. "Socials," "Poch@s," "Normals" y los demás: School Networks and Linguistic Capital of High School Students on the Tijuana-San Diego Border" Ana Celia Zentella, University of California, San Diego 19. NEW: Sorry to Bother You: Deepening the Political Project of Raciolinguistics H.Samy Alim, University of California, Los Angeles Index
£40.99
Oxford University Press Digital Grooming Discourses of Manipulation and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe analysis included here provides a valuable tool for understanding the nature and dynamics of the problem relevant to the fields of discourse analysis, communications, forensic linguistics, and media, as well as for policy makers and practitioners seeking to make meaningful change. * Choice *Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Digital Grooming: What Is it and How to Research it? Chapter 3: Digital Sexual Grooming: Setting the Scene Chapter 4: 'You're like my only friend, idc if you are 12': Digital Sexual Grooming Discourse Chapter 5: Digital Ideological Grooming: Setting the Scene Chapter 6: 'Let them starve, you idiots!!! Why feed VERMIN?': Digital Ideological Grooming Discourse Chapter 7: Digital Commercial Grooming: Setting the Scene Chapter 8: 'Your DrugBuddy': Digital commercial Grooming Discourse Chapter 9: Digital Grooming: Applications to Daily Life References
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Oxford University Press Inc The Ethnomethodology Program Legacies and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter One: Introduction: Garfinkel and the Ethnomethodology Movement John Heritage and Douglas W. Maynard SECTION ONE: ANTECEDENTS AND THEORY Chapter Two: A Comparison of Decisions Made on Four 'Pre-Theoretical' Problems by Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schuetz Harold Garfinkel Chapter Three: Harold Garfinkel's Focus on Racism, Inequality and Social Justice: The Early Years 1939-1952 Anne W. Rawls Chapter Four: Garfinkel's Studies of Work Michael E. Lynch SECTION 2: EMPIRICAL IMPACT Chapter Five: Ways of Working: An Introduction to the Study of Naturally Organized Ordinary Activities Harold Garfinkel Chapter Six: Rules and Their Enforcement "For Another First Time": Policing the Sidewalk Geoffrey Raymond, Lillian Jungleib, Don Zimmerman, and Nikki Jones Chapter Seven: The Co-Operative, Transformative Organization of Human Action and Knowledge Charles Goodwin Chapter Eight: Sex and the Sociological Dope: Garfinkel's Intervention into the Emerging Disciplines of Sex/Gender Kristen Schilt Chapter Nine: Garfinkel, Social Problems, and Deviance: Reflections on the Values of Ethnomethodology Darin Weinberg Chapter Ten: Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: Mutual Influences Steven Clayman, John Heritage, and Douglas W. Maynard SECTION 3: GROWTH POINTS Chapter Eleven: The Situated and Methodic Production of Accountable Action: The Challenges of Multimodality Lorenza Mondada Chapter Twelve: Recovering the Work of a Discovering Science with a Video Camera in Hand: The Electronically Probed/Visually Discovered Spectrum Philippe Sormani Chapter Thirteen: Research with Numbers Michael Mair, Christian Greiffenhagen, and Wes Sharrock Chapter Fourteen: The Sherlock Experiment Eric Livingston and John Heritage Chapter Fifteen: Technology in Action Christian Heath and Paul Luff Chapter Sixteen: Occam's Razor and the Challenges of Generalization in Ethnomethodology Iddo Tavory Chapter Seventeen: Ethnomethodology and Atypical Interaction: The Case of Autism Douglas W. Maynard and Jason J. Turowetz Index
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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
£25.49
OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics
Book SynopsisArabic is one of the world''s largest languages, spoken natively by nearly 300 million people. By strength of numbers alone Arabic is one of our most important languages, studied by scholars across many different academic fields and cultural settings. It is, however, a complex language rooted in its own tradition of scholarship, constituted of varieties each imbued with unique cultural values and characteristic linguistic properties. Understanding its linguistics holistically is therefore a challenge. The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a comprehensive, one-volume guide that deals with all major research domains which have been developed within Arabic linguistics. Chapters are written by leading experts in the field, who both present state-of-the-art overviews and develop their own critical perspectives. The Handbook begins with Arabic in its Semitic setting and ends with the modern dialects; it ranges across the traditional--the classical Arabic grammatical and lexicographicaTable of Contents1. A house of sound structure, of marvelous form and proportion: An Introduction Jonathan Owens 2. Phonetics Mohamed Embarki 3. Phonology Sam Hellmuth 4. Morphology Robert Ratcliffe 5. Arabic Linguistic Tradition I: NaHw and Sarf Ramzi Baalbaki 6. The Syntax of Arabic from a Generative Perspective Elabbas Benmamoun and Lina Choueiri 7. The Philological Approach to Arabic Grammar Lutz Edzard 8. The Arabic Linguistic Tradition II: Beyond Grammar Pierre Larcher 9. Issues in Arabic Computational Linguistics Everhard Ditters 10. Sociolinguistics Enam Al-Wer 11. Arabic Folk Linguistics: Between Mother-tongue and Native Language Yasir Suleiman 12. Orality, Culture and Language Clive Holes 13. Dialects and Dialectology Peter Behnstedt and Manfred Woidich, 14. Codeswitching and Codemixing Involving Arabic Abdelali Bentahila, Eirlys Davies, and Jonathan Owens 15. Borrowing Maarten Kossmann 16. Psycholinguistics Sami Boudelaa 17. Arabic Second Language Acquisition Karin Ryding 18. The Arabic Writing System Peter Daniels 19. What is Arabic? Jan Retsö 20. History Jonathan Owens 21. The Arabic Literary Language: The NahDa (and Beyond) Daniel Newman 22. Creoles and Pidgins Mauro Tosco and Stefano Manfredi 23. Lexicography in the Classical Era Solomon Sara, Georgetown University 24. Modern Lexicography Tim Buckwalter and Dilworth Parkinson
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Oxford University Press Inc Asking and Telling in Conversation Foundations of
Book SynopsisAnita Pomerantz is one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis (CA), a field that has grown from a small and marginalized subfield into a significant, international, multidisciplinary field of inquiry. CA now enjoys widespread acceptance and appreciation, thanks in large part to Pomerantz''s contributions.Asking and Telling in Conversation collects Pomerantz''s most influential articles across the span of her career, focusing on the complexities of asking and telling something to another person. The actions of asking and telling may seem straightforward, but speakers deal with a number of complexities when they ask and tell. Pomerantz''s work focuses on the ways in which the performances of asking and telling are shaped by, and shape, the identities of the participants, the activities in which they are engaged, what was said and done prior to the actions in question, and the anticipated reactions to their talk and action. Each of the volume''s nine chapters is framed by original pieces by Pomerantz which discuss the significance and contribution of the article to current studies in CA. In addition to the new introductions and closing commentary for each work, this book includes full introductory and concluding chapters that draw out the connections across the author''s work. Pomerantz also shares her reflections on preference organization, which she first analyzed in her foundational research nearly fifty years ago. Bringing together seminal works of CA with contemporary analysis in the field, this book sheds new light on important questions-and answers-in communication studies. A collection of work from a foremost scholar, Asking and Telling in Conversation is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Conversation Analysis.Trade Reviewshowcases her remarkable contributions * Marat Shangxin Zheng, Language and Dialogue *CA is naturally developing, growing, changing, but the work of Anita Pomerantz is as good a reminder as any of the core historical strengths of CA, its rigour, its empirical focus, its concern with what happens in conversation in the here-and-now. These are contributions that every budding scholar of CA should read. * Rod Gardner, Journal of Pragmatics *Table of ContentsGlossary of Transcript Symbols Introduction Chapter One: "Agreeing and Disagreeing with Assessments" Chapter Two: "Compliment Responses" Commentary Chapter Three: "Offering a Candidate Answer" Commentary Chapter Four: "Telling My Side" Commentary Chapter Five: "Attributions of Responsibility" Commentary Chapter Six: "Investigating Reported Absences" Commentary Chapter Seven: "Extreme Case Formulations" Commentary Chapter Eight: "Giving a Source or Basis" Commentary Chapter Nine: "Inferring the Purpose of a Prior Query and Responding Accordingly" Commentary Chapter Ten: Concluding Remarks Index
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Oxford University Press Your Voice Speaks Volumes
Book SynopsisWhy do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in an accessible and engaging account that will appeal to anyone interested in how we use our voices in daily life.Trade ReviewIn sum, Setter presents a wide-ranging survey of linguistic variation and speech perception in the British Isles to introduce non-specialists to linguistics. Nevertheless, for linguists who do not specialize on this region, this work is equally engaging. Setter also demonstrates with facility how using multiple media enriches the presentation of linguistic work. * Tracey Adams, University of Texas at Austin, Linguist List *Review from previous edition This book had me hooked ... sprightly and informative. * James McConnachie, The Sunday Times *Setter's book provides an enjoyable, informative discussion of the relevance of our voice for our identity and how we perceive others. * Carolina Gonzalez, LINGUIST List *Setter applies phonetic analysis to a range of aspects of daily life in a way that is approachable to a wide audience. * Megan Storey, Library Journal *In Your Voice Speaks Volumes, Jane Setter... has produced a primer on some interesting aspects of the spoken word. * Graham Elliott, The Linguist *Jane is excellent at making linguistics, particularly phonetics, crystal clear for the uninitiated. She uses that talent to great effect in her first book for the general public... This book is an important instrument for fighting accentism and other linguistic prejudice in the UK. It might make a nice gift for that person in your life who says they "care deeply about the English language", but really what they mean is "I like to judge other people's use of the English language". * Lynne Murphy, Separated by a Common Language *This is a fascinating book combining personal experience, British and international culture and society and above all scientific understanding of spoken language, how it works and how it is perceived around the world. * Training, Language and Culture, Maurice Cassidy *Innovative, informative, and full of human warmth. Jane Setter brings a personal perspective to the subject that is both insightful and moving. * David Crystal *Drawing on her two distinct areas of expertise -phonetics and rock singing- Jane Setter offers a fascinating and approachable account of the human voice and what it can say about us to the listener. * John C. Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics, University College London *A fascinating and thorough exploration of some of the key processes, functions and perceptions of spoken language. Professor Setter manages to provide accessible explanations of quite complex linguistic topics and brings them to life by relating them to entertaining examples from her own personal and professional experience. A great introduction to the area. * Dr Rob Drummond, Reader in Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University *Table of Contents1: Babies, children, fish, and sound patterns 2: The Watling Street divide: Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and accent prejudice 3: Men can't make their voices sound sexy, and other gems 4: 'Gahaad save our Queen!' Professional and performance voices and accents 5: Your voice is your witness: forensic speaker analysis in criminal investigations 6: Transgender speech and synthesized voices 7: The tip of the iceberg
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Oxford University Press The Integration of Language and Society A
Book SynopsisThe 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.Trade ReviewOverall this is a very welcome book, and it contains abundant references to other writings by the co--editors and by others which evidently give fuller information on some of the phenomena discussed. I very much hope that these and other publications in a similar vein may represent a wider reorientation of linguistics towards the study of the real differences between human languages, and away from the vain efforts of linguists of the recent past to portray all languages as "underlyingly" alike. * Geoffrey Sampson, University of Sussex, Linguist List *a very welcome book * Geoffrey Sampson, The LINGUIST List *Table of Contents1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Nerida Jarkey: The integration of language and society: A cross-linguistic view 2: Nerida Jarkey: The grammatical expression of social relations in Japanese 3: Stephen Watters: Honorification in Dzongkha 4: Pema Wangdi: Identifying who is who in Brokpa 5: R. M. W. Dixon: The semantics of the Dyirbal avoidance style: Adjectives 6: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The ways of speaking and the means of knowing: The Tariana of northwest Amazonia 7: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: Links between language and society among the Murui of Northwest Amazonia 8: Luca Ciucci: How grammar and culture interact in Zamucoan 9: Dineke Schokkin: The integration of languages and society: A view from multilingual Southern New Guinea 10: Maarten Mous: The Iraqw society reflected in their language 11: Anne Storch: Waiting: On language and hospitality
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Oxford University Press Learning Languages in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisIn 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was ''a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing''.Learning Languages in Early Modern England Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers'' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle,Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England''s ''educational revolution''. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel.Learning Languages in Early Modern England offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England''s encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.Trade Review[Learning Languages] exemplifies the benefit of combining cutting-edge historical research with historical sociolinguistics ... [Gallagher] handles a wealth of multilingual manuscripts — language exercises, diaries, notebooks, and correspondence — that connect three layers: texts, oral speech and pronunciation, as well as social communication. ... This work comprehensively combines ideas and approaches from the histories of education, books, and travel with social and cultural history. ... From extracurricular education to conversation manuals and travellers' accounts, it illuminates the dynamics of language learning and multilingualism in early modern England and its encounters with continental Europe. * Weiao Xing, Journal of Historical Sciolinguistics *Learning Languages in Early Modern England offers a fresh account both of the desire for foreign languages that animated early modern English culture and of some of the means pursued by the English in order to acquire them. It will be indispensable for readers interested in the histories of English foreign relations and travel as well as for those whose research treats the history of languages instruction more narrowly. * Rory G. Critten, Journal of British Studies *Gallagher... assembles a rich body of documentary evidence to illustrate the methods and social importance of instruction in vernacular languages. ... Gallagher's main point is simple but powerful: 'early modern England was multilingual.' ...[He has] given us a picture of an early modern England made louder and more boisterous by print, not silenced by it. Printed books made foreign languages more accessible, even to those without a private teacher or the funds to travel. Overseas trade and global politics resulted in greater interest in foreign tongues, with books on Arabic, Malay and Narragansett as well as the Continental standards. Immigrants take their place here as teachers, authors of foreign-language manuals, and students of English in their own right. This is a story of England finding its many voices. * Irina Dumitrescu, London Review of Books *The methodological tools and historical contexts... will be of much use to both historians and literary scholars... Gallagher's concepts are clearly defined and arguments well developed... Learning Languages in Early Modern England is a significant contribution to scholarly conversations about historical multilingualism, education, language acquisition, and intellectual economies and networks; it will be found of much interest and importance not just to the student of English cultural history, but to anyone with an interest in textual production and/or social interactions in the early modern period, who will be inspired by its arguments about the role of languages and learning in people's lived experience in the period, and aided by its clarity of thought and organization. * Sjoerd Levelt, Renaissance Studies *Gallagher is meticulous in his work, and bases his narrative on early modern primary records. ...The sheer volume of Gallagher's sources is convincing, and the society that he describes is one where polyglot men and women of different classes delight in 'speaking tongues'. ...Gallagher also explains why learning another language was important in early modern England, and this may offer a different perspective to the one we have on that society. * Onyeka Nubia, Social History *How English men and women of the late 15th to the early 18th century went about doing so is the subject of John Gallagher's fascinating new book, a welcome attempt to show that the history of language encompasses much more than just the history of words. * Fara Dabhoiwala, The Guardian *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Extracurricular Economy: Language Teachers and Language Schools in Early-Modern England 2: Speaking Books: The Early-Modern Conversation Manual 3: To Be Languaged: Early-Modern Linguistic Competences 4: A Conversable Knowledge: Language-Learning and Educational Travel Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Dogwhistles and Figleaves
Book SynopsisPinpoints how dogwhistles and figleaves, two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racismIt is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which such changes--both of which defied previously settled norms of political speech--have been brought about. Jennifer Saul shows that two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role. Some dogwhistles (such as 88, used by Nazis online to mean Heil Hitler) serve to disguise messages that would otherwise be rejected as unacceptable, allowing them to be transmitted surreptitiously. Other dogwhistles (like the 1988 Willie Horton ad) work by influencing people in ways that they are not aware of, and which they would likely reject were they aware. Figleaves (such as just asking questions) take messages that could easily be recognized as unacceptablTrade ReviewIt's a scrupulous look at a damaging linguistic phenomenon that often hides in plain sight. * Publishers Weekly *What is interesting about Saul's study is the instability of meaning it reveals, the layers of deception employed not only by speakers, but by listeners, who are occasionally deluding themselves ... clear, engaging and very readable. * Roisin Kiberd, Irish Independent *There is no doubt that our current political climate is posing a threat to democracy. It is not only that we are polarized, but polarization is fueled by an onslaught of (often thinly veiled) manipulative speech and falsehoods. Media consumers absorb distorting messages without even being aware of it, and speakers are not held responsible. Dogwhistles and Figleaves provides an essential tool for seeing how our ability to communicate and to coordinate is being undermined. This theoretically rich and highly readable book is essential for those who value democracy, and the kind of public discourse that makes it possible. * Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Genders Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Racism 1: White Racism, White Folk Racial Theory, and White Racial Discourse 2: Racist Dogwhistles 3: Figleaves for Racism Part 2: Falsehood 4: The Rise of Blatant Falsehood and Wild Conspiracism 5: Figleaves, Dogwhistles, and Falsehood 6: Obvious Falsehoods Without Deniability 7: Dogwhistles, Figleaves, and the Fight Against Racism and Blatant Falsehood
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OUP OXFORD Language Policy
Book SynopsisThis book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Florian Coulmas draws on specific examples from around the world to explore how countries make decisions about which language - and which variety or form of that language - should be used for key functions such as primary education, government administration, and the law. The book provides historical background to shed light on present-day policy disputes concerning language, and looks at how the resulting decisions are implemented in schools and other institutions. A common thread that runs through the chapters is the question of whether the involvement of the government in language regulation is a necessity, a blessing, or a curse. Written in a concise and engaging style, Language Policy: A Slim Guide is suitable for readers from all backgrounds who are interested in the interaction between language and politics.
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Oxford University Press Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together two particularly dynamic areas of contemporary research on the French language. The chapters showcase the most innovative current scholarship in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and in the burgeoning field of historical sociolinguistics which lies at their intersection. The research across the volume is strongly data-centred, drawing on a wide range of both well-established and more novel theoretical and methodological approaches in order to open up new perspectives on the study of the French language in the twenty-first century. Although it is written in English, the work presented here is underpinned by a range of different approaches from across the Francophone and Anglophone worlds. Particular emphasis is placed on combining quantitative and qualitative approaches, on diversifying tools, methods, and objects of inquiry, and on adopting comparative and multilingual perspectives where these shed new light on important questions relating to French.
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Oxford University Press, USA Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning
Book SynopsisThis book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning; gestural mediation in a second language; and constructing a self through a second language.Table of ContentsIntroducing sociocultural theory ; 1. Sociocultural contributions to understanding the foreign and second language classroom ; 2. Rethinking interaction in SLA: Developmentally appropriate assistance in the zone of proximal development and the acquisition of L2 grammar ; 3. Subjects speak out: How learners position themselves in a psycholinguistic task ; 4. The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue ; 5. Playfulness as mediation in communicative language teaching in a Vietnamese classroom ; 6. Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning ; 7. Second language learning as participation and the (re)construction of selves ; 8. Side affects: The strategic development of professional satisfaction ; 9. The appropriation of gestures of the abstract by L2 learners ; 10. Second language acquisition theory and the truth(s) about relativity ; 11. From input to affordance: Social-interactive learning from an ecological perspective ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Life Stories
Book SynopsisThis is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships. She focuses on different coherence systems, including `common sense'' and its peculiarly American nature.Trade Review"An excellent example of interdisciplinary theory and research, and a lucid introduction to the study of narrative. Linde bridges the neglected gap between rhetoric and the psychology of narrative. Really delightful."--Andrew Garrison, Miami University "Looks extremely interesting....Offers the opportunity to bridge some significant gaps in our understanding of how our self schemas really function."--Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak, Allegheny College "I have read Life Stories with much pleasure and enlightenment. It is a work that combines impressive scholarship in several academic disciplines, and an insightful perspective on popular culture. It will make a substantial contribution to several fields: linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, psychology, anthropology, and sociology--and no doubt others as well."--Robin Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley "Charlotte Linde's book provides a useful exploration of life stories' structure and their implications for larger issues."--Anthropological Linguistics "Linde's provocative work will stimulate sociologists to rethink how sociological analyses can benefit from the contributions of its cousin sociolinguistics and visa versa."--American Journal of Sociology "Life Stories is a richly innovative study, packed with insights into the way we use stories to create and maintain an identity over time. ...the book contains much that will interest a wide variety of readers, from linguists, narratologists, and literary theorists, to sudents of autobiography and folklore. An imaginative, stylishly written and boldly interdisciplinary study, Life Stories focuses our attention on a hitherto unexplored mode of narrative discourse, throwing new light on the interconnections between self and story."--Style "An excellent example of interdisciplinary theory and research, and a lucid introduction to the study of narrative. Linde bridges the neglected gap between rhetoric and the psychology of narrative. Really delightful."--Andrew Garrison, Miami University "Looks extremely interesting....Offers the opportunity to bridge some significant gaps in our understanding of how our self schemas really function."--Elizabeth Weiss Ozorak, Allegheny College "I have read Life Stories with much pleasure and enlightenment. It is a work that combines impressive scholarship in several academic disciplines, and an insightful perspective on popular culture. It will make a substantial contribution to several fields: linguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, psychology, anthropology, and sociology--and no doubt others as well."--Robin Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley "Charlotte Linde's book provides a useful exploration of life stories' structure and their implications for larger issues."--Anthropological Linguistics "Linde's provocative work will stimulate sociologists to rethink how sociological analyses can benefit from the contributions of its cousin sociolinguistics and visa versa."--American Journal of Sociology "Life Stories is a richly innovative study, packed with insights into the way we use stories to create and maintain an identity over time. ...the book contains much that will interest a wide variety of readers, from linguists, narratologists, and literary theorists, to students of autobiography and folklore. An imaginative, stylishly written and boldly interdisciplinary study, Life Stories focuses our attention on a hitherto unexplored mode of narrative discourse, throwing new light on the interconnections between self and story."--Style
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Oxford University Press Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words
Book SynopsisWierzbicka demonstrates that every language has its key concepts (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five languages, and using her own natural semantic metalanguage to provide an analytical framework, she shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.Trade ReviewThere is a lot to be gleaned from just about anything produced by Wierzbicka - the "key words book" [...] is no exception [...]. The observations are plentiful and fascinating [...]. [Wierzbicka] has done more than anyone else to really "understand cultures through their key words". * Word, 51 [2000] *
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Oxford University Press Vanishing Voices
Book SynopsisA dramatic account of the rate of language extinction, and how it endangers the future of biodiversityFew people know that nearly 100 native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia''s 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world''s languages may die out in the next century. What has happened to these voices? Should we be alarmed about the disappearance of linguistic diversity?The authors of Vanishing Voices assert that this trend is far more than simply disturbing. Making explicit the link between language survival and environmental issues, they argue that the extinction of languages is part of the larger picture of near-total collapse of the worldwide ecosystem. Indeed, the authors contend that the struggle to preserve precious environmental resources-such as the rainforest-cannot be separated from the struggle to maintain diverse cultures, and that the causes of language death, like that of ecological destruction, lie at the intersection of ecology and politics.And while Nettle and Romaine defend the world''s endangered languages, they also pay homage to the last speakers of dying tongues, such as Red Thundercloud, a Native American in South Carolina, Ned Mandrell, with whom the Manx language passed away in 1974, and Arthur Bennett, an Australian, the last person to know more than a few words of Mbabaram. In our languages lies the accumulated knowledge of humanity. Indeed, each language is a unique window on experience. Vanishing Voices is a call to preserve this resource, before it is too late.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition "[A] superb study of endangered languages.... The tapestry of supporting detail is every bit as compelling as the central thesis-- from an examination of how indigenous languages function as museums of local culture to a history of the way in which dominant languages like English,Mandarin, and Spanish have vanquished more vulnerable tongues." * The New Yorker *"Language extinction is a great tragedy for human culture and for scholarship on all things human. This fascinating book is the latest word on this important issue, containing a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. If we have the good sense to rescue the priceless legacy of linguistic diversity before it vanishes forever, Vanishing Voices will surely deserve a good part of the credit." * Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and Words and Rules *". . . this clear, cogent and immensely knowledgeable book. . . . Vanishing Voices is a book that needs to be chain-read, therefore: read it, then tell someone else to." * Prof David Crystal, THES *"Vanishing Voices is an urgent call to arms about the impending loss of one of our great resources. Nettle and Romaine paint a breathtaking landscape that shows why so many of the world's languages are disappearing and more importantly, why it matters. They put the problem of linguistic diversity into the wider context of global biodiversity, and propose the revolutionary idea that saving endangered languages is not about dictionaries and educational programs, but about preserving the cultures and habitats of the people who speak them. Along the way it's also a fascinating introduction to how language works: how languages are born, how they die, and how we can prevent their death." * Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University *a "splendid and disturbing book." * The Irish Times (Dublin) *Table of Contents1. Where have All the Languages Gone ; 2. A World of Diversity ; 3. Lost Words / Lost Worlds ; 4. The Ecology of Language ; 5. The Biological Wave ; 6. The Economic Wave ; 7. Why Something Should be Done ; 8. Sustainable Futures ; References and Further Reading ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Conversational Style
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of Deborah Tannen''s first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style-first published in 1984-presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don''t Understand, That''s Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others. Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that make up the speakers'' conversational styles, and in particular how aspects of what she calls a ''high-involvement style'' have a positive effect when used with others who share the style, but a negative effect with those whose styles differ. This revised edition includes a new preface and an afterword in which Tannen discusses the book''s place in the evolution of her work. Conversational Style isTrade ReviewPraise for earlier edition: "By far the most interesting and accessible--and fun!--introduction to conversational style that I know of. Students love it, and I use it as a required textbook whenever I teach sociolinguistics."--Doug Biber, Northern Arizona UniversityPraise for earlier edition: "Interesting and valuable for both laypersons and students."--LanguagePraise for earlier edition: "A contribution not only for the general reader but for any researcher or student interested in conversation."--Language and SocietyTable of ContentsREFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA Why Do You Ask The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
Trade ReviewThis volume provides very valuable insights into the roles which questioning enables speakers and listeners to adopt within a broad range of institutional discourse. It contributes significantly to our understanding of how questioning occurs and how interactants can and do use questions for their own ends or to achieve institutional goals. * Helen de Silva, Discourse Studies *Table of Contents1. The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse: An Introduction ; 2. The Design and Positioning of Questions in Inquiry Testimony ; 3. Questioning in Medicine ; 4. Interrogating Tears: Some Uses Of 'Tag Questions' In A Child Protection Helpline ; 5. Grammar and Social Relations: Alternative Forms of Yes/No Type Initiating Actions in Health Visitor Interaction ; 6. Asking Ostensibly Silly Questions in Police-Suspect Interrogations ; 7. Pursuing Views and Testing Commitments: Hypothetical Questions in the Psychiatric Assessment of Transsexual Patients ; 8. Questions that Convey Information in Teacher-Student Conferences ; 9. Is that right? Questions and Questioning as Control Devices in the Workplace ; 10. Questioning in Meetings: Participation and Positioning ; 11. The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Reflective Questions in Genetic Counselling ; 12. Questions in Broadcast Journalism ; 13. Questions and Institutionality in Public Participation Broadcasting ; 14. "I'm calling to let you know!": Company Initiated Telephone-Sales ; 15. "How may I help you?" Questions, Control and Customer Care in Telephone Call Centre Talk
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Oxford University Press Inc Beyond Yellow English
Book SynopsisBeyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. The distinguished contributors-who represent a broad range of perspectives from anthropology, sociolinguistics, English, and education-focus on the analysis of spoken interaction and explore multiple facets of the APA experience. Authors cover topics such as media representations of APAs; codeswitching and language crossing; and narratives of ethnic identity. The collection examines the experiences of Asian Pacific Americans of different ethnicities, generations, ages, and geographic locations across home, school, community, and performance sites.Trade ReviewThis volume is a valuable collection of scholarly work that moves linguistic anthropological and sociolinguistic approaches to Asian Pacific America beyond the stereotype of the inscrutable, closed off, and unapproachable Asian. This book is a significant move "beyond" the restrictive stereotype of "Yellow English." * The Journal of Language in Society, Volume 39-2010 *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Contributors ; Part I: Interactional Positionings of Selves and Identities ; Part II: Discursive Constitutions of Groups and Communities ; Part III: Languages in Contact ; Part V: Educational Institutions and Language Acquisition ; Index
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Oxford University Press Bad Language
Book SynopsisIs today''s language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Reexamining debates over relativism in language, Battistella argues that we should view language as made up of alternative forms of regularity and orderliness, which require informed engagement with usage.Trade Review...written for a non-scholarly audience, although it might be useful as a pre-course book for undergraduates... Books on this subject tend to adopt polarized positions, and while it is clear which end of the spectrum Battistella occupies, he writes in a style that would not automatically alienate those who initially disagreed with him. * The Year's Works in English Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Bad Language: Realism versus Relativism Anything Goes A Culture of Engagement Bad Writing The Craft of Writing Clear and Direct The Relativity of Style What is Good Writing? Bad Grammar Prescriptive Grammar The Emergence of Prescriptivism The Doctrines of Usage and Utility The English Language Arts and Beyond Conservatives and Progressives The Necessity for Grammar Bad Words Cursing in the Media and the Arts Offensive Language Bad Words as a Social Construction Slang as Bad Language Political Correctness Conventionalism and Comfort Levels Bad Citizens Birth of a Nation Native American Languages Manualism versus Oralism Restrictions on Foreign Languages Bilingual Education English Only One Flag, One Language Bad Accents Broken English Attitudes Toward Regional Dialects Ebonics Accomodating to the Idealized Mainstream Images and Engagement Imagining Language English Made Hard Beyond Simplistic Characterizations Notes Reference Index
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Oxford University Press, USA When Languages Die
Trade ReviewIn this scholarly yet very readable study, Harrison writes powerfully of the value and beauty of these vanishing knowledge systems. * PD Smith, The Guardian *K. David Harrison makes an excellent case for studying our disappearing languages. Intrepid and dedicated, he is committed to salvaging what he can before it is too late. * Gregory Norminton, TLS *Table of Contents1.: A World of Many (Fewer) Voices 2.: An Extinction of (ideas about) Species 3.: Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning Case Study: Urban Nomads of Mongolia 4.: An Atlas in the Mind Case Study: Wheel of Fortune, and a Blessing 5.: Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends Case Study: New Rice vs. Old Knowledge 6.: Counting to Twenty on your Toes Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives 7.: Worlds within Words Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Investigating Variation The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisLinguistic variation has most commonlu been studied in communities that have the dominant social organization of our time: occupation and ethnic diversity, socioeconomic stratification, and a population size that precludes community-wide face-to-face interaction. In such communities literacy introduces overarching, extra-community linguistic norms, and linguistic variation correlates with socioeconomic class. Investigating Variation explores a different kind of social organization: small size, enclavement, common occupation, absence of social stratification, bilingualism with extremely weak extra-community norming for the local minority language, which shows a very high level of individual variation. Nancy C. Dorian''s examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recognition of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups. Reports of similar variation phenomena in locations with similar social-setting and social-organization features (contemporary minority-language pockets in Ireland, Russia, Norway, Canada, and Cameroon) make it possible to recognize a particular set of factors that contribute to the emergence and persistence of socially neutral inter-speaker and intra speaker variation. The documented existence of still other forms of social organization, rare now but once more widespread, suggests that additional forms of linguistic variation, as well as other facets of language use related to social organization, remain unexamined, calling for attention before the few communities that represent them disappear altogether.Table of Contents1. The Variation Puzzle ; 2. The East Sutherland Fishing Communities ; 3. Dimensions of Linguistic Variation in a Socioeconomically Homogeneous Population ; 4. A General Introduction to Speakers and Variables ; 5. A Close Look at Some Embo Variables and their Use ; 6. Kin Groups, Peer Groups, and Variation ; 7. Speech Norms, Accommodation, and Speaking Well in Gaelic Embo ; 8. Socially Neutral Linguistic Variation: Where, Why, What for, and How? ; 9. Conclusion ; Notes ; References
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Oxford University Press Sunnyside
Book SynopsisThis book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence (Beowulf''s Heorot) to the twentieth century. Chapters 1 and 2 track changes from medieval naming practices such as Ceolmundingchaga and Prestebures, to present-day house names such as Fairholme and Oakdene: that is, the shift from recording the name of the householder (Sabelinesbury, ''Sabeline''s manor''), the householder''s occupation (le Taninghus, ''the tannery'') and the appearance of the house (le Brodedore, ''the broad door''); to the five main categories still in use today: the transferred place-name (Aberdeen House), the nostalgically rural (Springfield), the commemorative (Blenheim Palace), the upwardly mobile (Vernon Lodge), and the latest fashion (Fernville). The development and demise of pub names and shop names such as la Worm on the Hope and the Golden Tea Kettle & Speaking Trumpet are detailed, and the rise of heraldic names such as the Red Lion is explained. ChaptTrade ReviewReview from previous edition There are books that wrap up a subject, and books that send the mind wandering serendipitously. Laura Wright's Sunnyside does both ... meticulously researched with respect to both the origins and the occurrences of houses called Sunnyside ... This is a provocative and enticing history of the now sadly neglected custom of naming one's house. * Christina Hardyment, Times Literary Supplement *[...] this is an informative and enjoyable book. Any linguist who lives in a Sunnyside (there is at least one) will undoubtedly be keen to read it, and so will many others. * Geoffrey Sampson, Linguist List *A select bibliography presents the wide array of manuscripts, printed and on-line sources used in compiling this intriguing book that moves from medieval London to branches of non-conformism and Victorian villas, then back to historic solskifte and forward again to house names in our own time. This remarkable work of erudition is not for the faint hearted. The Sunnyside journey taken by Laura Wright is complicated, even labyrinthine, but sharing it with her is well worth the effort. * Hugh Clout, Cercles *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction 1: The Earliest London House Names 2: Victorian Villas 3: London's First Sunnysiders 4: Religion, Fame, and Sunnyside 5: Sunnyside and the North Appendix 1 Pre-1400 London House Names Appendix 2 House Names from William Porlond's Book Appendix 3 Stagecoach Names Sunnyside Gazetteer References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Confronting the Death Penalty How Language
Book SynopsisConfronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases probes how jurors make the ultimate decision about whether another human being should live or die. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative linguistic methods, this book explores the means through which language helps to make death penalty decisions possible - how specific linguistic choices mediate and restrict jurors'', attorneys'', and judges'' actions and experiences while serving and reflecting on capital trials. The analysis draws on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in diverse counties across Texas, including participant observation in four capital trials and post-verdict interviews with the jurors who decided those cases. Given the impossibility of access to actual capital jury deliberations, this integration of methods aims to provide the clearest possible window into jurors'' decision-making. Using methods from linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, and multi-modal discourse analysis, Conley analyzes interviews, trial talk, and written legal language to reveal a variety of communicative practices through which jurors dehumanize defendants and thus judge them to be deserving of death. By focusing on how language can both facilitate and stymie empathic encounters, the book addresses a conflict inherent to death penalty trials: jurors literally face defendants during trial and then must distort, diminish, or negate these face-to-face interactions in order to sentence those same defendants to death. The book reveals that jurors cite legal ideologies of rational, dispassionate decision-making - conveyed in the form of authoritative legal language - when negotiating these moral conflicts. By investigating the interface between experiential and linguistic aspects of legal decision-making, the book breaks new ground in studies of law and language, language and psychology, and the death penalty.Trade ReviewDr Riner's approach is a unique one that makes for a compelling read ... a lucid exposition of the contradictions and fallacies that capital jurors must wrestle with in their role within the American criminal justice system ... Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases would be an asset to the collection of any academic law library, as well as to legal practitioners searching for a deeper understanding of the link between language and the legal practice. * Erica Friesen, Canadian Law Library Review *There is no doubt that profound lessons from this book can shed new light on the implementation and management of capital pubishment in America. * Zhonghua Wu, Journal of Language and Politics *
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Oxford University Press Inc Morality in Discourse
Book SynopsisMorality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is socially constructed in and through discourse, and the implications of this for the empirical analysis and theorization of morality. The volume addresses both how morality gets done through everyday practices, as well as the practical concerns that discussions of morality inevitably entail. It does so by delving into how morality is socially constructed in an array of communicative environments through the lens of a range of different discourse analytic traditions. Drawing on the conceptual tools of moral stance, positioning, responsiveness and authority, the chapters address the ways in which morality is enacted, interactionally negotiated, contested and policed. What emerges from these discussions and analyses is an understanding of morality from a discursive perspective that encompasses both morality as action, in which moral stances become the articulated object of action, and moral framing, in which the situated context itself is morally charged for evaluation.
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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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Oxford University Press Inc The Great Nation of Futurity The Discourse and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Futurity National Identity and Foreign Policy Discourse Chapter 2 America's Most Precious Resource Chapter 3 Vistas to the Future Chapter 4 New Vistas of Opportunity Chapter 5 Alerting America Chapter 6 From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace Chapter 7 The Future of American Exceptionalism References
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Oxford University Press Inc Nahuatl Nations
Book SynopsisNahuatl Nations is a linguistic ethnography that explores the political relations between those Indigenous communities of Mexico that speak the Nahuatl language and the Mexican Nation that claims it as an important national symbol. Author Magnus Pharao Hansen studies how this relation has been shaped by history and how it plays out today in Indigenous Nahua towns, regions, and educational institutions, and in the Mexican diaspora. Based on long-term fieldwork in several Nahuatl speaking communities in Central Mexico, Hansen uses a combination of methods from ethnohistory, sociolinguistics, anthropology and ethnography to study the political importance of Nahuatl in different periods and places, and for different persons. He suggests that the complicated political relations between State, Nation and Nahua communities can be understood through the concept of ''semiotic sovereignty'', which refers to a community''s ability to manage its own semiotic resources, including its own language, and the cultural practices that constitute it as a political community. He argues that Indigenous languages are likely to remain vital as long as they used as languages of political community, and they also protect the community''s sovereignty by functioning as a barrier that restricts access to the participation for outsiders. Semiotic sovereignty therefore becomes a key concept for understanding how Indigenous communities can maintain both their political and linguistic vitality. While the Mexican Nation seeks to expropriate Indigenous semiotic resources in order to improve its brand on an international marketplace, Indigenous communities may employ them in resistance to state domination.
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OUP India Decolonizing 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. Decolonizing Linguistics, the companion volume to Inclusion in Linguistics, is designed to uncover and intervene in the history and ongoing legacy of colonization and colonial thinking in linguistics and related fields. 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 introduction to Decolonizing Linguistics theorizes decolonization as the process of centering Black, Native, and Indigenous perspectives, describes the extensive dialogic and collaborative process through which the volume was developed, and lays out key principles for decolonizing linguistic research and teaching. The twenty chapters cover a wide range of languages and linguistic contexts
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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 Inc Going Tactile
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Clarendon Press Language Policy and Social Reproduction Ireland 18931993 Oxford Studies in Language Contact
Book SynopsisTaking the well-known Irish language revival policy as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between processes of economic and social development on the one hand, and processes of language and cultural change on the other. Does modernization inevitably mean the end of traditional languages and cultural practices, or can they re-emerge in new forms?Trade Reviewhe devotes most of his book to a re-assembly of statistical data from a series of language surveys, census returns and administrative files ... Prof. Ó Riagáin usefully brings diverse sets of data into this single volume. * Patrick Cummins, Journal of Linguistics Institute of Ireland, 36/36 *this book is critical reading for anyone interested in either the Irish language or minority language policy in general. He brings together the key findings of previous studies along with an in-depth analysis of more recent research...a handy reference book. * irish Journal of Sociology *Having meticulously laid the foundations for his study, he sets about considering the nature of theoretical perspectives in sociolinguistic research in general, and in Irish in particular ... excellent research is characterised by its clarity of argument, its objectivity and attention to detail. This book is to be recommended by all who are interested in language, and particularly those who are involved in minority language planning. * The Month *This is an interesting, challenging contribution to studies of language policy and language planning in general, as well as to our understanding of Irish-English biligualism in Ireland ... The book ... contributes to the development of hypotheses about the fate of linguistic minorities in the modern world. * Monica Heller, American Journal of Sociology, May 1999, 104:6 *
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Clarendon Press The German Language and the Real World
Book SynopsisThis collection of specially commissioned essays focuses on the forms, functions, and uses of contemporary German in the period of dynamic change following reunification. Some contributors address broad issueslanguage and national identity, the status of German as an international language, language change and attempts to fix the form of the language, and sociolinguistic variationwhile others examine topics of particular significance in the current sociopolitical climate. These include social change and linguistic variation in Berlin after the Wall, the political language of the Right and Left, the speech of youth subcultures, language and gender, language and television, and language in intercultural communication. Reviews of the hardback edition `This volume fills a void in up-to-date English-language information on German linguistics. Highly recommended for all college and university collections, as well as public libraries.'' Choice, 33: 3, November 1995`The appearance of this collTrade ReviewThis volume fills a void in up-to-date English-language information on German linguistics. Highly recommended for all college and university collections, as well as public libraries. * Choice *The book not only gives a detailed account of the way in which the forms of the German language ... seem to be changing ... but is also a welcome introduction to different approaches to the study of the German language in use ... the quality of the translations is very good ... I believe that, with this volume, Stevenson will once again do what Stephen Barbour and he did so well in Variation in German ... that is, stimulate interest in German (socio)linguistics among non-German-speakers. * Winifred V. Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, MLR, 92.1, 1997 *Table of ContentsThe Study of Real Language: Observing the Observers ; To What Extent is German an International Language? ; Germanness: Language and Nation ; Norms and Reforms ; Directions of Change in Contemporary German ; After the Wall: Social Change and Linguistic Variation in Berlin ; Theories of Sociolinguistic Variation in the German Context ; Language in Intercultural Communication ; Critical Linguistics and the Study of Institutional Communication ; Political Discourse: The Language of Right and Left in Germany ; Evaluation of Language use in Public Discourse: Language Attitudes in Austria ; Language and Gender ; Jugendsprachen: Speech Styles of Youth Subcultures ; Language and Television
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Oxford University Press, USA Language Wars and Linguistic Politics
Book SynopsisNon-linguistic conflicts - economic, religious, territorial - are often projected on to language differences, and may be played out in the language policies of governments and other holders of power. Jean-Louis Calvet deals broadly, in a non-technical and introductory style, with this interaction of language issues and political process. He examines the fundamental problems arising from language contact, multilingualism, and the conflicts caused by inequalities symbolized in various patterns of language use. The author draws extensively on his own research and uses numerous case studies to illustrate the power-political dimensions of language policies from many parts of the world, such as Africa, China, South America, the former Soviet Union, and Europe. He cites the former Soviet Union as a prime example of an attempt to impose, for ideological reasons, a supra-national vehicular language, in order to supersede the languages of regional nationalism. Professor Calvet offers no simple solutions to the `war of languages'' but urges all those involved in language intervention - from the professional `language planners'' to school teachers - to combine the need to promote majority languages with respect for the diversity of local languages and language varieties.Trade ReviewNontechnical and interesting, it is addressed to nonspecialists and is recommended for all academic and public collections. * G. R. Wasserman, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: THE ORIGINS OF CONFLICT ; 1. The Question of Origins ; 2. Religions and Language ; 3. A Multilingual World ; 4. Ideologists of Superiority ; PART II: THE BATTLEFIELD ; 5. Lingua Francas and Vernaculars ; 6. The Family as a Battlefield ; 7. Markets and Languages ; 8. Lingua Francas ; 9. The Death of Languages ; PART III: AMONG THE ADMINISTRATORS ; 10. Language Policy and Planning: First Approach ; 11. Case Studies: The Management of Multilingualism ; 12. Case Studies: Language Planning and Nationalism ; 13. Case Study: The Language Struggle of the Jivaro of Ecuador ; 14. The War of Writing ; 15. The War of Words ; 16. Trench Warfare: The Case of French ; 17. The Pacifist Illusion and Esperanto ; Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Language Dispersal Diversification and Contact
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe: why do we find large language families distributed over a wide area in some regions, while elsewhere we find clusters of very small families or language isolates? What roles have agriculture, geography, climate, ethnic identity, and language ideologies played in language spread? In this volume, international experts in the field provide new answers to these and related questions, drawing on the increasingly large databases available and on novel analytical research techniques.The first part of the volume outlines some general issues and approaches in the study of language dispersal, diversification, and contact. In the rest of the volume, chapters compare the language and population histories of three major regions - Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America - which show particularly interesting contrasts in the distribution of languages and language families. The volume is inTable of Contents1: Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken: Patterns of diversification and contact: Re-examining dispersal hypotheses Part I: General approaches 2: Johanna Nichols: Dispersal patterns shape areal typology 3: Peter Trudgill: Sociolinguistic typology and the uniformitarian hypothesis 4: Tom Güldemann and Harald Hammarström: Geographical axis effects in large-scale linguistic distributions 5: Balthasar Bickel: Large and ancient linguistic areas Part II: Southeast Asia and Oceania 6: Marian Klamer, Mily Crevels, and Pieter Muysken: Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania 7: Nicholas Evans: Time, diversification, and dispersal on the Australian continent: Three enigmas of linguistic prehistory 8: William A. Foley: Language diversity, geomorphological change, and population movements in the Sepik-Ramu basin of Papua New Guinea 9: Jean-Christophe Galipaud: The dynamics of human expansion and cultural diversification in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Neolithic: An archaeological perspective 10: Mark Donohue and Tim Denham: The role of contact and language shift in the spread of Austronesian languages across Island Southeast Asia Part III: Africa 11: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Mily Crevels, and Pieter Muysken: Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Africa 12: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Language diversification and contact in Africa 13: Koen Bostoen: The Bantu expansion: Some facts and fiction 14: Maarten Mous: Language isolates and the spread of pastoralism in East Africa Part IV: South America 15: Pieter Muysken and Mily Crevels: Patterns of dispersal and diversification in South America 16: Patience Epps: Amazonian linguistic diversity and its sociocultural correlates 17: Robert S. Walker: Cultural phylogenetics in lowland South America
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Oxford University Press Slang
Book SynopsisSlang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today''s vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. This Very Short Introduction takes readers on a wide-ranging tour of this fascinating sub-set of the English language. It considers the meaning and origins of the word ''slang'' itself, the ideas that a make a word ''slang'', the long-running themes that run through slang, and the history of slang''s many dictionaries.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Reviewa welcome edition of Oxford's Very Short Introductions, and anyone seeking an accessible tour d'horizon of this lively subject will find that Green's book is just the ticket. * Benjamin George Friedman, Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. 'Slang': the word ; 2. 'Slang' as a linguistic register ; 3. Is slang a language? ; 4. The words of slang: themes and development ; 5. The users of slang ; 6. The components of slang ; 7. Recording slang ; 8. The lexicography of slang: slang's dictionaries ; 9. The future of slang
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages Oxford
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.Trade ReviewThis book is a thoroughly admirable compilation. We can be very glad that it has been produced while at least a few speakers of most of these languages survive: a decade or two later it might have become very difficult to achieve such comprehensive coverage of one of the world's major language families. The book is well written and clear, despite the fact that scarcely any contributor has English as his or her mother tongue. * Geoffrey Sampson, University of Sussex, Linguist List *This book is a thoroughly admirable compilation. We can be very glad that it has been produced while at least a few speakers of most of these languages survive: a decade or two later it might have become very difficult to achieve such comprehensive coverage of one of the world's major language-families. The book is well written and clear, despite the fact that scarcely any contributor has English as his or her mother tongue. * Geoffrey Sampson, Linguist List *This book is meant for a linguistically oriented readership worldwide, throughout linguistic and related disciplines...I assume that typologists world-wide will also be happy to see this volume. * Roger Blokland, Keel Ja Kirjandus *The Oxford handbook may now be recognized as the most comprehensive and reliable general tool on the Uralic languages...One of the strong sides of the volume is that it consistently relies on the established methods of synchronic and diachronic linguistics without trying to make far-reaching linguistic conclusions by resorting to information from extralinguistic disciplines. * International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 5 *Table of ContentsTranscription and glossing The contributors Timo Rantanen, Outi Vesakoski, and Jussi Ylikoski: Mapping the distribution of the Uralic languages Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Introduction Part I: The Making of the Uralic Languages 1: Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte): Proto-Uralic 2: Janne Saarikivi: The divergence of Proto-Uralic and its offspring: A descendant reconstruction 3: Johanna Laakso: The making of the Uralic nation-state languages 4: Annika Pasanen, Johanna Laakso, and Anneli Sarhimaa: The Uralic minorities: Endangerment and revitalization 5: Konstantin Zamyatin: Language policy in Russia: The Uralic languages 6: Johanna Laakso and Elena Skribnik: Graphization and orthographies of Uralic minority languages Part II: Language descriptions 7: Eino Koponen: Saami: General introduction 8: Jussi Ylikoski: South Saami 9: Jussi Ylikoski: Lule Saami 10: Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte) and Jussi Ylikoski: North Saami 11: Taarna Valtonen, Jussi Ylikoski, and Ante Aikio (Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte): Aanaar (Inari) Saami 12: Eino Koponen, Matti Miestamo, and Markus Juutinen: Skolt Saami 13: Michael Rießler: Kildin Saami 14: Johanna Laakso: Finnic: General introduction 15: Johanna Laakso: Finnish, Meänkieli, and Kven 16: Anneli Sarhimaa: Karelian 17: Riho Grünthal: Veps 18: Elena Markus and Fedor Rozhanskiy: Ingrian 19: Elena Markus and Fedor Rozhanskiy: Votic 20: Helle Metslang: North and Standard Estonian 21: Karl Pajusalu: Seto South Estonian 22: Johanna Laakso: Livonian 23: Arja Hamari and Rigina Ajanki: Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha) 24: Sirkka Saarinen: Mari 25: Gerson Klumpp: Permic: General introduction 26: Nikolay Kuznetsov: Komi 27: Svetlana Edygarova: Udmurt 28: Elena Skribnik and Johanna Laakso: Ugric: General introduction 29: Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Katalin Sipxocz and Elena Skribnik: North Mansi 30: Ulla-Maija Forsberg: East Mansi 31: Mária Sipos: North Khanty 32: Zsófia Schön and Katalin Gugán: East Khanty 33: István Kenesei and Krisztina Szécsényi: Hungarian 34: Beáta Wagner-Nagy and Sándor Szeverényi: Samoyedic: General introduction 35: Svetlana Burkova: Nenets 36: Florian Siegl: Enets 37: Beáta Wagner-Nagy: Nganasan 38: Olga Kazakevi%c: Selkup 39: Gerson Klumpp: Kamas Part III: General issues and case studies 40: Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Introduction to Part III: General issues and case studies 41: Marianne Bakró-Nagy: Palatalization 42: Marianne Bakró-Nagy: Consonant gradation 43: Karl Pajusalu: Prosody 44: Seppo Kittilä, Johanna Laakso, and Jussi Ylikoski: Case 45: Gwen Eva Janda, Johanna Laakso, and Helle Metslang: Person marking 46: Jeremy Bradley, Gerson Klumpp, and Helle Metslang: Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) and evidentials 47: Matti Miestamo: Negation and negatives 48: Jussi Ylikoski: Non-finites 49: Maria Vilkuna: Word order 50: Riho Grünthal: Adpositions and adpositional phrases 51: Johanna Laakso and Beáta Wagner-Nagy: Existential, locational, and possessive sentences 52: Rigina Ajanki, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik: Nominal predication 53: Elena Skribnik: Clause combining 54: Gerson Klumpp and Elena Skribnik: Information structuring References Index
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Oxford University Press The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Book SynopsisThis book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years'' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources-including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony-to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of a comprehensive historical dictionary of English emerged, the lengthy struggles to bring this concept to fruition, and the development of the book from the appearance of the first printed fascicle in 1884 to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. It also examines the evolution of the lexicographers'' working methods, and provides much information about the people-many of them remarkable individuals-who have contributed to the project over the last century and a half.Trade ReviewBeing so rich in detail such as names, places, dates, events, and happenings that surround OED, the book is actually about the people starting, making, and continuing the journey of OED. Hence, the book is highly recommended for lexicographers, linguists, teachers, language planners, dictionary users, and fans. In reading this book, readers will obtain a new perspective of seeing OED: from a dictionary to a masterpiece created by dedicated parties working together because of their enormous love and pride of English. * Anna Marietta da Silva, Lexicography *This work is erudite, massively learned, and meticulously documented and, by some magic instilled into it, both informative and entertaining. [ ] G[illiver]'s claim on the first page of the preface that his being an insider and a working lexicographer is of some advantage is amply justified at every turn in this book [ ] It is no mean feat to digest the multitudinous [ ] minutiae-into a readable and even suspenseful narrative, but Gilliver has pulled it off admirably. The richness of documentary material that underpins this book is remarkable. [ ] The splendid achievement of this book will, despite the fact that new information will inevitably be found and new theories be propounded, deservedly stand as the definitive history of the OED for many years to come. * Language *Review from previous edition Definitive. * Jamie Camplin, History Today *As befits such a story, and ultimately such an intellectual and prestigious triumph for Oxford University Press, this history is contained in an exemplary volume. The footnotes are legion but never intrusive, there is a 14-page bibliography and an excellent index. The whole is designed and produced in an elegant, handsome and welcoming volume, which does its author, his publishers and, above all, its subject proud. * Stuart James, Reference Reviews *Skilfully telling the story of a national treasure ... Gilliver provides a peerless progress report. It is to his credit that for all the inescapable longueurs of dictionary production, this account has something of the ripping yarn... Like its equivalent dictionaries across the world, the OED is a national treasure. That it has a fascinating story is to be expected. That it is told by so skilled a narrator as Peter Gilliver is a bonus: both for the great work, and for those who read this book. * Jonathon Green, Times Literary Supplement *Painstaking and scholarly account... a story which leaves you mentally breathless by the time you arrive at the end... if you're genuinely interested in the English language, and enjoy your linguistic history leavened with quirky details and a touch of dry humour, it's a book which any true language-lover should have on their shelf. * Moira, Vulpes Libris *In conclusion: The book gives an absorbing and vivid account and a detailed and exhaustive presentation of the meticulously researched facts dealing with the development of the OED and its related dictionaries. At the same time it is a worthy and meritorious tribute to the hundreds of people, who collaborated in establishing one of the great historical dictionaries. * J.C.M.D. du Plessis, Lexikos *Fascinating. * The Story Reading Ape *The most wonderful book has just come out. I hate to use the word 'definitive' about any book, but this one justifies it. * David Crystal, DCBlog *A dream book for logophiles. * Europaeum Bulletin *This is a riveting read. * Pat Ashworth, Church Times *Will repay anyone with a serious interest in the story behind one of Britain's greatest treasures. * Michael Quinion, World Wide Words *The information in this volume, much of it gleaned through careful analysis of written correspondence and annotations on the primary archival material, makes this history definitive. * W. Miller, Choice *Gilliver's prose is a pleasure to read and his research indefatigable. * Christopher Howse, The Spectator *A long, careful, authoritatively written, handsomely produced and fascinatingly detailed history * Matthew Engel, Financial Times09/09/2016 *The material is marshalled with erudition and elegance * Nicholas Mander, Daily Telegraph *It's all here for the fossicking * Karen Shook, Times Higher Education *Remarkable book ... authoritative ... a thoroughly engaging book for logophiles or those interested in this most enduring of achievements ... Gilliver's painstaking work revivifies many of the unsung heroes of the project * John Garth, Oxford Today *There is much to enjoy in this scholary [sic!] work and the scholarship is lightened by the illustrations, and by the examples of how individual words have been treated. It is not a work to read at a sitting and, indeed, many will probably prefer to treat it as a reference work, to be dipped into to resolve some issue of lexicography, but it is easy to dip into and then to be captured by a train of events in the history of the fascinating Oxford English Dictionary... The author [...] was able to maintain a ready sense of humour for the enterprise, making the history a work that one can dive into and discover new insights on almost every page, leavened with that humour... A work of real scholarship. * Tom Wilson, Information Review *Meticulously researched ... groundbreaking ... While it cannot be the last word, it is hard to believe that Gilliver's excellent and careful account of the Dictionary's compilation will ever be superseded * Elizabeth Knowles, Library & Information History *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of capsules 1: Beginnings: to 1861 2: Furnivall's Dictionary: 1861-1875 Interlude. The work of Furnivall's sub-editors 3: Manoeuvres: 1876-1879 4: The road to Ant: 1879-1884 5: The Dictionary divides: 1884-1887 6: Storm and stress: 1888-1897 Interlude. Method: From quotation slip to published entry 7: And then there were four: 1987-1915 8: After twilight: 1915-1923 9: Limping over the finishing line: 1923-1933 10: Interregnum: 1933-1957 11: Learning to swim (again): 1957-1972 12: Second Supplement to Second Edition: 1972-1989 13: Towards OED3: 1989- Guide to abbreviations and sources Bibliography Index
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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 Phonological Word and Grammatical Word
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the concept of 'word' as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.Table of Contents1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, and Nathan M. White: The essence of 'word' 2: R. M. W. Dixon: Words within words: Examples from Yidiñ, Jarawara, and Fijian 3: Nerida Jarkey: Words in Japanese 4: Luca Ciucci: Wordhood in Chamacoco 5: Katarzyna I. Wojtylak: The phonological and grammatical status of Murui 'word' 6: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Word in Yalaku 7: N. J. Enfield: Word in Lao 8: Nathan M. White: Word in Hmong 9: Sean Allison: The notion of 'word' in Makary Kotoko Index of authors Index of languages, language families, and linguistic areas Index of subjects
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Oxford University Press Writing a War of Words
Book SynopsisWriting a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark''s unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women ''did their bit'' on the Home Front. Lynda''s Mugglestone''s fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventionaTrade ReviewWriting a War of Words is scholarly, as a definitive study should be, but eminently readable. * E. L. Battistella, CHOICE *Writing a War of Words is an invaluable contribution both to lexicography and history 'from below', recording words and expressions which have been preserved thanks to Clark's immense efforts. It will certainly inspire future research which will provide new insights into the lexical impact of the Great War on the English language. The book will be of interest to lexicographers, language historians, historians and anyone interested in World War I and its discourse, which can be extended to the discourse of war in general. * Prof.Dr. Lelija Socanac, The LINGUIST *Lynda Mugglestone's "Writing a War of Words" is a fascinating account of the immense effort of Andrew Clark, a diarist, historian and philologist, to record in minute detail the fleeting existence of English words and shifting meanings which appeared during the Great War in a variety of unconventional sources such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front. This immense lexical richness vividly recreates different aspects of everyday life of ordinary people facing the harsh realities of war. * Lelija Socanac, University of Zagreb, Linguist List *Mugglestone has a shrewd understanding of the technical business and psychological climate of lexicography. Her research is scrupulous, and through her analysis Clark's catalogue of usage comes to seem an achievement of almost Johnsonian proportions - each page a time capsule, and the whole project an extraordinarily detailed map of the period's changing "langscape"... a generous tribute to his [Clark's] linguistic curiosity and curatorial intelligence. * Henry Hitchings, Times Literary Supplement *The voluminous diaries and scrapbooks Andrew Clark compiled during World War One prove him alert to words and usage of the time and a skilled and prescient commentator on their significance. In her new book, Lynda Mugglestone reconstructs Clark's account of the 'war of words' amidst the war, his finger, as she puts it, 'on the pulse of words in time', equally an apt description of Mugglestone's historical touch. Anyone with an interest in the history of English, the Great War, or the Oxford English Dictionary, to which Clark contributed, must read Writing a War of Words. * Michael Adams, Indiana University Bloomington *Lynda Mugglestone's Writing a War of Words is a revelation. It tells the story of Andrew Clark, a diarist and philologist whose reflections on language and the Great War offer a wealth of information about English linguistic history and its social contexts. But more generally, it reveals the centrality of the Great War to the study of the English Language itself. Much has been made of Tolkien's war and its impact on his philology and fantasy. Clark is different: he is a personal, self-reflective writer, an acute observer of words and people, and a historian of the imagination. His diary is a true discovery, and Professor Mugglestone shows him standing on a par with Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. Writing a War of Words will stand with Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory as a lasting, revisionary account of early twentieth-century personal writing, language change, and the wartime literary imagination. * Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego *Table of ContentsPreface: Writing a War of Words 1: Word-hoard: From History to Historical Principles 2: Reading into Words 3: 'Doing One's Bit': From Voluntary Endeavour to Conscription 4: The Langscape of War 5: Border Crossings 6: English in a Time of Total War 7: Writing the Woman's Part 8: Written on the Body 9: Last Words
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Oxford University Press Im Sorry for What Ive Done The Language of Courtroom Apologies Oxford Studies in Language and Law
Book SynopsisThis book examines 52 apologetic allocutions produced during federal sentencing hearings. The practice of inviting defendants to make a statement in their own behalf is a long-standing one and it is understood as offering defendants the opportunity to impress a judge or jury with their remorse, which could be a factor in the sentence that is imposed. Defendants raised the topics of the offense, mitigation, future behaviour and the sentence in different ways and this book explores the pros and cons associated with the different strategies that they used. Because there is no way of ascertaining exactly how effective (or ineffective) an individual allocution is, case law, sociolinguistic and historical resources, and judges'' final remarks are used to develop hypotheses about defendants'' communicative goals as well as what might constitute an ideal defendant stance from a judge''s point of view. The corpus is unique because, unlike official transcripts, the transcripts used for this study include paralinguistic features such as hesitations, wavering voice, and crying-while-talking. Among its highlights, the book proposes that although a ritualized apology formula (e.g., I''m sorry or I apologize ) would appear to be a good fit for the context of allocution and even appears to be expected, the use of these formulas carries implications in this context that do not serve defendants'' communicative goals. I argue that the application of Austin''s (1962) performative-constative continuum reveals that offense-related utterances that fall closer to the constative end are more consistent with the discursive constraints on the speech event of allocution. Further, I propose that the ideologies associated with allocution, in particular the belief that allocution functions as a protection for defendants, obscures the ways in which the context constrains what defendants can say and how effectively they can say it.Trade ReviewI'm Sorry For What I Have Done is accessible at all levels ... an exceedingly interesting read. * Sarah Morley, LSE USAPP31/08/14 *I have no hesitation in recommending it to any student of language. * Joe Sinclair, New Nuturing Potential *invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers in the domains of linguistics and law * Guofeng Wang, Discourse Studies *Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction ; Chapter Two: Apologies and Courtroom Apologies ; Chapter Three: The Context of Federal Sentencing Hearings ; Chapter Four: What Defendants Say in Response to their Offenses ; Chapter Five: Defendants Talk about the Past, the Future, and the Present: Mitigation, Future ; Chapter Six: Broad Features of Defendants' Allocutions ; Chapter Seven: Conclusions ; Appendix 1: Data collection and the defendants ; Appendix 2: Coding system ; Appendix 3: Transcription practices & the corpus of allocutions ; Appendix 4: Display of allocutions by coded categories ; Appendix 5: Sentencing table ; Works Cited
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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 a Table 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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