Sociolinguistics Books
MIT Press Ltd Consequences of Language From Primary to Enhanced
Book SynopsisWhat is it about humans that makes language possible, and what is it about language that makes us human?If you are reading this, you have done something that only our species has evolved to do. You have acquired a natural language. This book asks, How has this changed us? Where scholars have long wondered what it is about humans that makes language possible, N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell ask instead, What is it about humans that is made possible by language? In Consequences of Language their objective is to understand what modern language really is and to identify its logical and conceptual consequences for social life. Central to this undertaking is the concept of intersubjectivity, the open sharing of subjective experience. There is, Enfield and Sidnell contend, a uniquely human form of intersubjectivity, and it is essentially intertwined with language in two ways: a primary form of intersubjectivity was necessary for language to have begun evolv
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University of Notre Dame Press Contest of Language
Book SynopsisThese essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Specific essays apply this theme of the contest of language to the suppression, survival, and revival of the Irish language; to Greek, Latin, and the emergence of the vernacular in Europe; to the relationship between minority and dominant language in China; and to the lack of linguistic imperialism in the spread of Arabic, among other fascinating topics.Trade Review"A collection which studies this social function of language not only by applying a variety of theoretical approaches but also by examining this phenomenon across times and cultures is a most desirable project that should appeal to scholars of various disciplines, from literary to social studies, from linguistics to anthropology and philosophy. ...a concentrated effort which results in a collection of highly interesting and very inspiring essays. ...Bloomer's book is a contribution of eminent value to the debate about the role of language in relation to politics and power and provides a most useful access to this complex field of study. Its wide range both of methods and of topics allows readers to get an overview, first of all, of the different methodological questions that are and must be involved in exploring the social functions of language. ...I am convinced that anyone interested in the interaction of society and language will gain substantial profit from it." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review“The Contest of Language is highly recommended to all students of Linguistic Studies as well as the general reader who has interest in the cultural and political implications of language.” —The Midwest Book Review"The Contest of Language is an ambitious and appealing collection that should attract a variety of humanists and linguists interested in the relationship between politics, language use, literature, and power. Its wide range makes it a 'must-have' for the humanities and social sciences sections in every college and university library." —Joy Connolly, Stanford University
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University of Notre Dame Press Contest of Language
Book SynopsisThese essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and intellectual consequences of that elevation. Specific essays apply this theme of the contest of language to the suppression, survival, and revival of the Irish language; to Greek, Latin, and the emergence of the vernacular in Europe; to the relationship between minority and dominant language in China; and to the lack of linguistic imperialism in the spread of Arabic, among other fascinating topics.Trade Review"A collection which studies this social function of language not only by applying a variety of theoretical approaches but also by examining this phenomenon across times and cultures is a most desirable project that should appeal to scholars of various disciplines, from literary to social studies, from linguistics to anthropology and philosophy. ...a concentrated effort which results in a collection of highly interesting and very inspiring essays. ...Bloomer's book is a contribution of eminent value to the debate about the role of language in relation to politics and power and provides a most useful access to this complex field of study. Its wide range both of methods and of topics allows readers to get an overview, first of all, of the different methodological questions that are and must be involved in exploring the social functions of language. ...I am convinced that anyone interested in the interaction of society and language will gain substantial profit from it." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review“The Contest of Language is highly recommended to all students of Linguistic Studies as well as the general reader who has interest in the cultural and political implications of language.” —The Midwest Book Review"The Contest of Language is an ambitious and appealing collection that should attract a variety of humanists and linguists interested in the relationship between politics, language use, literature, and power. Its wide range makes it a 'must-have' for the humanities and social sciences sections in every college and university library." —Joy Connolly, Stanford University
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University of Notre Dame Press Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body
Book SynopsisDante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body takes a serious look at Dante''s relation to Latin grammar and the new mother tongue-Italian vernacular-by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood. Inspired by Julia Kristeva''s meditations on the maternal semiotic, Cestaro''s book uncovers ancient and medieval discourses that assert the nursing body''s essential role in the development of a mature linguistic self.The opening chapters locate traces of the nursing motif in Dante''s minor works and particularly in his Latin treatise on the mother tongue, De vulgari eloquentia. Cestaro argues that a primal scene of suckling motivates the poet''s musings on language and brings the work to its premature end. Subsequent chapters explore the evolution of the nursing body in the Comedy: from the parodic anti-nurse of Inferno (archetypically Circe with her poison milk), to the Christian deconstructionTrade Review"Gary Cestaro's study of the nursing body, language, and salvation in Dante's De vulgari eloquentia, Convivio, and Commedia constitutes a remarkable contribution to both Dante studies and the flourishing fields of gender and sexuality studies. This book about Dante's disinterment and resurrection of the permeable, reproductive, fluid, nurturing body as the primal signifier is groundbreaking (in several senses) and will invigorate many further investigations." —Speculum * Speculum *"Cestaro's subtle, complex, and thought-provoking book is a welcome demonstration of how much can be gained by reading the Commedia not only as a product of preceding traditions but also as an anticipation of themes central to thinkers such as Kristeva and Lacan. …his thesis offers a cogent challenge to the standard view that the poem tends ultimately towards evanescence and the diminution of corporeality, for Cestaro recognizes that at the heart of the Paradiso there is an affirmation of the body as a site of joyous process." —MLR“… a highly intelligent and engaging read. Cestaro writes with great breadth. The book offers a nice balance of historical and theoretical readings of many thinkers to whom Dante was indebted while cultivating our appreciation for the artistry and luminosity of the Commedia.” —Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies“Cestaro marshals an impressive array of material, within and outside the Dante corpus, in the service of materializing Dante beyond the hypostases of classical virility and its modern critical analogues. Additionally, Cestaro writes like a charm.” —Modern Philology
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University of Notre Dame Press Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body
Book SynopsisDante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body takes a serious look at Dante''s relation to Latin grammar and the new mother tongue-Italian vernacular-by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood. Inspired by Julia Kristeva''s meditations on the maternal semiotic, Cestaro''s book uncovers ancient and medieval discourses that assert the nursing body''s essential role in the development of a mature linguistic self.The opening chapters locate traces of the nursing motif in Dante''s minor works and particularly in his Latin treatise on the mother tongue, De vulgari eloquentia. Cestaro argues that a primal scene of suckling motivates the poet''s musings on language and brings the work to its premature end. Subsequent chapters explore the evolution of the nursing body in the Comedy: from the parodic anti-nurse of Inferno (archetypically Circe with her poison milk), to the Christian deconstructionTrade Review"Gary Cestaro's study of the nursing body, language, and salvation in Dante's De vulgari eloquentia, Convivio, and Commedia constitutes a remarkable contribution to both Dante studies and the flourishing fields of gender and sexuality studies. This book about Dante's disinterment and resurrection of the permeable, reproductive, fluid, nurturing body as the primal signifier is groundbreaking (in several senses) and will invigorate many further investigations." —Speculum * Speculum *"Cestaro's subtle, complex, and thought-provoking book is a welcome demonstration of how much can be gained by reading the Commedia not only as a product of preceding traditions but also as an anticipation of themes central to thinkers such as Kristeva and Lacan. …his thesis offers a cogent challenge to the standard view that the poem tends ultimately towards evanescence and the diminution of corporeality, for Cestaro recognizes that at the heart of the Paradiso there is an affirmation of the body as a site of joyous process." —MLR“… a highly intelligent and engaging read. Cestaro writes with great breadth. The book offers a nice balance of historical and theoretical readings of many thinkers to whom Dante was indebted while cultivating our appreciation for the artistry and luminosity of the Commedia.” —Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies“Cestaro marshals an impressive array of material, within and outside the Dante corpus, in the service of materializing Dante beyond the hypostases of classical virility and its modern critical analogues. Additionally, Cestaro writes like a charm.” —Modern Philology
£70.55
Pennsylvania State University Press Babel of the Atlantic
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture.Trade Review“The volume is successful in exposing the hidden and often underappreciated role that multilingualism played in colonial Philadelphia and its surrounds. Interpreting complex transatlantic networks and cultural change through the lens of multilingual and multicultural societies forces scholars from different disciplines and traditions to collaborate to achieve a more comprehensive, panoramic assessment of these developments. These concerted efforts reveal the complex, sometimes contradictory part that certain key figures such as Benjamin Franklin played in the establishment of societal and linguistic norms.”—Michael T. Putnam H-Transnational German Studies“This fine volume is a highly welcome addition to the literature on translation and intercultural communication in the multiethnic environment of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Babel of the Atlantic combines the perspectives of history, literary studies, and material culture; it brings together experts on Pennsylvania German history and culture, ethnohistory, and the history of abolitionism; and it is sensitive to issues of gender.”—Mark Häberlein,author of The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820“Taken together, these essays make a strong case for more effectively and thoroughly acknowledging the approximately 120,000 German-speaking immigrant settlers who arrived in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century, [constituting] nearly one-third of its population. In reminding us of Pennsylvania’s multicultural past, they also call on us to more fully reckon with how linguistic and cultural variation influenced the state’s early history, and they challenge us to consider the processes by which the English language and Anglo culture became normative.”—Judith Ridner Early American Literature“The connections across the diverse contributions in this skillfully edited volume are facilitated by a thorough index at the end. The endnotes for each chapter appear with their respective chapters. The book’s aesthetic appeal is enhanced by the inclusion of over forty high-quality black-and-white images. It is to be recommended to anyone with an interest in the multicultural history of early America, especially those wanting to learn more about the diversity of German Pennsylvania.”—Mark L. Louden Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsContentsList of illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic; “Differences of Manners, Languages and Extraction. Was Now No More”? Bethany WigginPART 1 NEW WORLD, NEW RELIGIONS1 . “Wie ein Nimrod / Like a Nimrod”: Babel, Confusion, and Coercive Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Patrick M. Erben2 . The Moravian Threat to the Old World Establishment Craig Atwood3 . Women, Migration, and Moravian Mission: Negotiating Pennsylvania’s Colonial Landscapes Katherine FaullPART 2 THE LANGUAGES OF EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS4 . Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen Jürgen Overhoff5 . German or English? Halle’s Pastors in Pennsylvania and the Search for the Right Language, 1742–1820 Wolfgang FlügelPART 3 THE LANGUAGES OF RACE AND (ANTI-)SLAVERY6 . Writing Against Slavery: Germantown, Quakers, and the Ethnic Origins of Early Antislavery Thought Katharine Gerbner7 . “Ein schrecklicher Zustand”: Race, Slavery, and Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania Birte Pfleger8 . How the Quakers Worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and Enslaved and Free Africans: All in the Antislavery Cause Maurice JacksonPART 4 THE LANGUAGES OF WOOD AND STONE9 . Communicating Through Wood and Stone: Building a New World Identity in Pennsylvania Cynthia G. Falk10 . Germans in Colonial Philadelphia: Ethnicity, Hybridity,and the Material World Lisa MinardiList of ContributorsIndex
£66.71
Pennsylvania State University Press Babel of the Atlantic Max Kade Research Institute
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining colonial Philadelphia and its surroundings as a zone of cultural and linguistic interchange. Documents everyday multilingualism and intercultural negotiations with special attention to themes of religion, education, race and the abolitionist movement, and material culture and architecture.Trade Review“The volume is successful in exposing the hidden and often underappreciated role that multilingualism played in colonial Philadelphia and its surrounds. Interpreting complex transatlantic networks and cultural change through the lens of multilingual and multicultural societies forces scholars from different disciplines and traditions to collaborate to achieve a more comprehensive, panoramic assessment of these developments. These concerted efforts reveal the complex, sometimes contradictory part that certain key figures such as Benjamin Franklin played in the establishment of societal and linguistic norms.”—Michael T. Putnam H-Transnational German Studies“This fine volume is a highly welcome addition to the literature on translation and intercultural communication in the multiethnic environment of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Babel of the Atlantic combines the perspectives of history, literary studies, and material culture; it brings together experts on Pennsylvania German history and culture, ethnohistory, and the history of abolitionism; and it is sensitive to issues of gender.”—Mark Häberlein,author of The Practice of Pluralism: Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820“Taken together, these essays make a strong case for more effectively and thoroughly acknowledging the approximately 120,000 German-speaking immigrant settlers who arrived in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century, [constituting] nearly one-third of its population. In reminding us of Pennsylvania’s multicultural past, they also call on us to more fully reckon with how linguistic and cultural variation influenced the state’s early history, and they challenge us to consider the processes by which the English language and Anglo culture became normative.”—Judith Ridner Early American Literature“The connections across the diverse contributions in this skillfully edited volume are facilitated by a thorough index at the end. The endnotes for each chapter appear with their respective chapters. The book’s aesthetic appeal is enhanced by the inclusion of over forty high-quality black-and-white images. It is to be recommended to anyone with an interest in the multicultural history of early America, especially those wanting to learn more about the diversity of German Pennsylvania.”—Mark L. Louden Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsContentsList of illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic; “Differences of Manners, Languages and Extraction. Was Now No More”? Bethany WigginPART 1 NEW WORLD, NEW RELIGIONS1 . “Wie ein Nimrod / Like a Nimrod”: Babel, Confusion, and Coercive Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic Patrick M. Erben2 . The Moravian Threat to the Old World Establishment Craig Atwood3 . Women, Migration, and Moravian Mission: Negotiating Pennsylvania’s Colonial Landscapes Katherine FaullPART 2 THE LANGUAGES OF EDUCATION AND ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS4 . Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen Jürgen Overhoff5 . German or English? Halle’s Pastors in Pennsylvania and the Search for the Right Language, 1742–1820 Wolfgang FlügelPART 3 THE LANGUAGES OF RACE AND (ANTI-)SLAVERY6 . Writing Against Slavery: Germantown, Quakers, and the Ethnic Origins of Early Antislavery Thought Katharine Gerbner7 . “Ein schrecklicher Zustand”: Race, Slavery, and Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania Birte Pfleger8 . How the Quakers Worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and Enslaved and Free Africans: All in the Antislavery Cause Maurice JacksonPART 4 THE LANGUAGES OF WOOD AND STONE9 . Communicating Through Wood and Stone: Building a New World Identity in Pennsylvania Cynthia G. Falk10 . Germans in Colonial Philadelphia: Ethnicity, Hybridity,and the Material World Lisa MinardiList of ContributorsIndex
£999.99
HarperCollins How You Say It
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Representing Rape Language and sexual consent
Book SynopsisRepresenting Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events are often the only type of evidence available. Language does not simply reflect but helps to construct the character of the people and events under investigation. The book is based around a case study of the trial of a male student accused of two instances of sexual assault in two different settings: a university tribunal and a criminal trial. This case is situated within international studies on rape trials and is relevant to the legal systems of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. She shows how culturally-dominant notions about rape percolate through the talk of sexual assault cases in a variety of settings and ultimately shape their outcome. Ehrlich hopes that to understand rape trials in this way is to recognize their capacity for change. By highlighting the underlying preconceptions and prejudices in the language of courtrooms today, this important book paves the way towards a fairer judicial system for the future.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The institutional coerciveness of legal discourse 2 `My shirt came off ...I gather that I took it off ': The accused's grammar of non-agency 3 `I see an option ...I simply want to explore that option with you': Questions and ideological work 4 `I didn't yell ...I didn't scream': Complainants' ineffectual agency or strategic agency? 5 `The signals . . . between men and women are not being read correctly': Miscommunication and acquaintance rape. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literacy and Gender Researching Texts Contexts
Book SynopsisWhy are girls outperforming boys in literacy skills in the Western education system today? To date, there have been few attempts to answer this question. Literacy and Gender sets out to redress this state of affairs by re-examining the social organization of literacy in primary schools. In studying schooling as a social process, this book focuses on the links between literacy, gender and attainment, the role school plays in producing social difference and the changing pattern of interest in this topic both within the feminist community and beyond. Gemma Moss argues that the reason for girlsâ relative success in literacy lies in the structure of schooling and in particular the role the reading curriculum plays in constructing a hierarchy of learners in class. Using fine-grained ethnographic analysis of reading in context, this book outlines methods for researching literacy as a social practice and understanding how different versions of what counts as literacy can be created in the same site.Table of ContentsLiteracy, Gender and Attainment: Introduction 1. Literacy, Gender and the Politics of School Achievement: Explaining Educational Failure and Success 2. Studying Literacy with More than Gender in Mind 3. Literacy Events in the Context of the School: Re-Thinking How Literacy, Gender and Attainment Intertwine 4. Texts in their Context of Use: Non-Fiction Text Design and the Social Regulation of Reading in Class 5. Readers in Context Text Choice as Situated Practice 6. Gender, Literacy and Attainment: Taking Things Forward
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing Performative Pragmatics
Book SynopsisThis user-friendly introduction to a new performative' methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of action-oriented approaches' from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Paul Grice, Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman.Paying particular attention to language as drama, the group regulation of language use, individual resistance to these regulatory pressures and nonverbal communication, the work also explains groundbreaking concepts and analytical models.With a key points section, discussion questions and exercises in every chapter, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and teachers on a variety of courses, including linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication.Table of ContentsPreface. The Structure of the Book. Acknowledgments. List of Tables Part 1: Introduction 1. Metaphors of Language 2. Histories of Linguistics Part 2: Speech Acts 3. Performatives: Words That Transform Reality 4. Types of Speech Act 5. Creating Context 6. Taking Turns Part 3: Implicatures 7. Manipulating Maxims 8. Divergent Maxims 9. Conversational Invocature. Works Cited. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Redesigning English 04 U211 Exploring the English
Book SynopsisThis fully updated edition of Redesigning English explores the innovative uses of English from early manuscripts to post-colonial literature, creative writing and developments in new media. Focusing on how English has, and continues to evolve through its global status, there is a strong emphasis on the visual forms of language and communication, and on issues of identity and politics. New chapters for this edition include; what makes English into Art? A tongue for sighing, English manuscripts: the emergence of a visual identity, English in a globalized world.Table of ContentsIntroduction. What Makes English into Art? A Tongue for Sighing. Text Time and Technology in News English. Visual English. English Manuscripts: The Emergence of a Visual Identity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contact Languages
Book SynopsisContact has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires, those of colonial expansion, and to those of our globalizing planet today. Pidgin and creole studies have merged with the study of other language contact phenomena (adult second-language acquisition, bilingualism, bilingual mixed languages, language shift, partially restructured languages, language attrition, etc.) to form the flourishing field of contact linguistics.This new Routledge Major Work brings together the most important contributions advancing our understanding of language contact phenomena. Beginning fitfully in the mid-nineteenth century and then gathering momentum after 1960, the field of pidgin and creole linguistics has developed from a marginal field associated with the stigma of the languages it studied to a subfield which is now at the centre of linguistic enquiry. As it became clear that contact, far from being bizarre, has always been a normal part of the development of languages, from those of ancient empires to those of colonial expansion to those of our globalising planet today, pidgin and creole studies have merged with the study of other language contact phenomena (adult second language acquisition, bilingualism, bilingual mixed languages, language shift, partially restructured languages, language attrition, etc) to form the new field of contact linguistics. This selection of the most important contributions advancing our understanding of language contact phenomena covers almost two hundred years of scholarship and will provide students with an overview of how insights about the new languages that emerged as a result of European expansion to Africa, Asia, the New World and the Pacific have led to a clearer view of what language is.Articles are arranged chronologically; unusually for a Critical Concepts collection, each individual article is preceded by a short introduction making clear the intellectual context in which it was written, its thematic connection to earlier work, and why it is an important contribution to the field. As well as articles from scholarly journals, there are also some chapters from major books in the field. The collection is indexed for theme and language.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English in the World
Book SynopsisEnglish in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. The first half of the book outlines the history of the language from its fifth-century roots through its development as a national, a colonial, and now a global language. In the second half, the focus shifts to the diversity of the language today.The book explores varieties of English across the English-speaking world, as well as English-related varieties such as pidgins and creoles. It also examines complex processes of variation, hybridity and change in English, and in the shifting styles of individual speakers. Throughout, the focus is on the international nature of English and its use alongside other languages in a diverse range of communities.Drawing on the latest research and The Open Universityâs wide experience of writing accessible and innovative texts, this book: explains basic concepts andTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. English in the World Today. Philip Seargeant 2. A National Language. Joan Beal 3. A Colonial Language. Dick Leith and Philip Seargeant 4. A Global Language. David Crystal 5. English and Englishes. Jennifer Smith 6. English and Other Languages. Kay McCormick 7. Variation and Change in English. Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz Appendix 1: History of English timeline. Appendix 2: A Note on Describing English. Joan Swann
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Taylor & Francis Ltd English in the World
Book SynopsisEnglish in the World: History, diversity, change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. English in the World Today. Philip Seargeant 2. A National Language. Joan Beal 3. A Colonial Language. Dick Leith and Philip Seargeant 4. A Global Language. David Crystal 5. English and Englishes. Jennifer Smith 6. English and Other Languages. Kay McCormick 7. Variation and Change in English. Miriam Meyerhoff and Anna Strycharz Appendix 1: History of English timeline. Appendix 2: A Note on Describing English. Joan Swann
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Authority in Language
Book SynopsisAuthority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion of the English-Only movement and the Ebonics controversy. They consider the historical process of standardisation and its social consequences, in particular discrimination against low-status and ethnic minority groups on the basis of their language traits.This Routledge Linguistics Classic is here reissued with a new foreword and a new afterword in which the authors broaden their earlier concept of language ideology.Authority in Language is indispensable reading for educationalists, teachers and linguists and a long-standing text for courses in sociolinguistics, modern English grammar, history of English and languTrade Review‘The Milroys’ Authority in Language is the most significant textual milestone in researching the ideological construction of Standard English. An absolute must for both historical linguists and sociolinguists.’ Richard J. Watts, Emeritus Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland‘No book on the market does a better job of explaining the issues surrounding standardization and linguistic authority in a way which is both scholarly and accessible to students.’Deborah Cameron, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Prescription and Standardisation. 2.Standard English and the Complaint Tradition. 3. Spoken and Written Norms. 4.Grammar and Speech. 5. Linguistic Prescription and the Speech Community. 6. Linguistic Repertoires and Communicative Competence. 7. "Planned" and "Unplanned" Speech Events. 8. Some Practical Implications of Prescriptivism: Educational Issues and Language Assessment Procedures. 9.Two Nations Divided by the Same Language? The Standard Language Ideology in Britain and the United States.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Vox Popular
Book SynopsisOur favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voicessuch as what accent or dialect to useoffer rich data for sociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variation as well as general readers interested in media, Vox Popular is an engaging tour through the major issues of sociolinguistic study as heard in the voices from mass media. Provides readers with a unified and accessible picture of the interrelationships between language variation and the mass media Presents detailed original analyses of multiple audiovisual media sources Includes a broad methods chapter covering quantitative and qualitative methods in a style not available in any other textbook All theoretical terms are accessibly explained, with engaging examples, making it suitable for non-academics as well as undergraduate students IncorporaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on the Linguistic Conventions Used in Vox Popular x Keywords Found in Each Chapter xiv 1 Language in a Mediated World 1 Mad Men in a Modern Family World 1 Why Does a Linguist Care about Mad Men or Modern Family? 3 Narrative Media as a Site for Linguistic Exploration 12 Language Variation in the Narrative Media 20 2 Exploring Language and Language Variation 25 Introduction 25 Languages and Dialects 27 The Components of a Grammar 32 All the Systems Work as a System 34 Systems of Variation 40 Language Change 47 3 Studying Language Variation in the Media 55 Introduction 55 Formulating a Research Question 56 Turning Narrative Media into Data 57 Analytic Orientation 58 Transcribing Your Data 61 Coding Your Data 66 Constructing a Corpus 69 Quantitative Methods 70 Qualitative Methods 75 Triangulating Your Evidence with Different Analytic Approaches 82 4 Dimensions of Variation 85 Introduction 85 Non-Linguistic/Linguistic 90 Spoken/Written 93 Non-Standard/Standard 97 Informal/Formal 101 Unplanned/Planned 104 Local/Global 107 Private/Public 110 Putting It All Together 114 5 Making Language Variation Meaningful 119 Introduction 119 Meaning 120 Indexical Meaning 124 Ideology 130 Ideology about Language 133 Ideology, Indexicality, and Power 138 6 Language Variation and Characterization 154 Introduction 154 Characterization and Language 156 Realness and Authenticity 160 Identity and Identification 163 Relational Identity 164 Norms and Types 168 Social Personae 172 Indexical Authenticity 176 7 Language as Narrative Action 183 Introduction 183 Performance and Speech Acts 185 Language as a Plot Device 193 Switching as Action 196 Taboo Language as Action 205 8 Connecting to the Audience 221 Introduction 221 Audiences 222 Audience Design 226 Setting Expectations for Viewers 230 Enregisterment 236 Stylization 242 Interacting with Audiovisual Media 246 The End 253 Index 258
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Research Methods in Sociolinguistics
Book SynopsisThis single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniques, explained in clear and accessible terms by leading experts. It features project suggestions, troubleshooting tips, and data assessment across diverse languages. Explores an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis to the study of phonetics Details the types of data available, and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes Provides comprehensive coverage of data analysis, subdivided into segments on linguistic and socio-cultural techniques, and linked to numerous languages Includes useful summaries, seasoned advice and troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading Trade Review“This book is an invaluable aid for student researchers eager to produce high-quality, impactful sociolinguistic research. The editors of this volume have met their goal of providing the student with the theoretical framework, historical background, and methodological tools required to execute an array of different research endeavors within the field.” (LINGUIST List, 8 December 2014)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xii Symbols for Vowels Used in This Volume xiii Articulatory Position of Vowels Used in This Volume xiv Introduction 1Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen 1 A Historical Assessment of Research Questions in Sociolinguistics 7Kirk Hazen Part I Types of Data and Methods of Data Collection 23 2 Sociolinguistic Interviews 25Michol Hoffman 3 Written Surveys and Questionnaires in Sociolinguistics 42Erik Schleef 4 Experimental Methods in Sociolinguistics 58Katie Drager 5 Computer-mediated Communication and Linguistic Landscapes 74Jannis Androutsopoulos Part II Methods of Analysis 91 Focusing on Features of Language from a Sociolinguistic Perspective 92 6 Sociohistorical Analysis 93Terttu Nevalainen 7 Corpus Linguistics in Sociolinguistics 107Paul Baker 8 Phonetic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 119Erik R. Thomas 9 Phonological Considerations in Sociophonetics 136Paul Kerswill and Kevin Watson 10 Morphosyntactic Analysis in Sociolinguistics 149Julia Davydova 11 Vocabulary Analysis in Sociolinguistic Research 163Michael Adams 12 Doing Discourse Analysis in Sociolinguistics 177Janet Holmes 13 Words and Numbers: Statistical Analysis in Sociolinguistics 194Gregory R. Guy Focusing on Aspects of Sociocultural Context in Analyzing Language 211 14 Anthropological Analysis in Sociolinguistics 213Alexandra Jaffe 15 Conversation Analysis in Sociolinguistics 230Paul Drew 16 Geographical Dialectology 246David Britain 17 Speech Communities, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice 262Robin Dodsworth 18 Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation in Multilingual Contexts 276Rajend Mesthrie 19 Social Context, Style, and Identity in Sociolinguistics 290Nikolas Coupland 20 Researching Children's Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence 304Carmel O'Shannessy Index 325
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The New Handbook of Language and Social
Book SynopsisWhen originally published in 1993 the first edition of this book was widely acknowledged as a definitive text in the field. The New Handbook builds on this success to provide updated reviews of many of the important theoretical and practical areas in which progress has been achieved in the last decade.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. List of Contributors. Prologue (W. Robinson). THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Language in Communication: Frames of Reference (W. Robinson). Communication Accommodation Theory (C. Shepard, et al.). Discrepancy Arousal Theory and Cognitive Valence Theory (L. Guerrero, et al.). Expectancy Theories (J. Burgoon & M. Burgoon). Discursive Social Psychology (J. Potter & D. Edwards). Storytelling: The Power of Narrative Communication and Interpretation (Sunwolf & L. Frey). Language Attitudes: Retrospect, Conspect, and Prospect (J. Bradac, et al.). FACE TO FACE: STRUCTURES AND GENERAL FUNCTIONS. Towards a Comprehensive Model of Non-Verbal Communication (M. Patterson). Miscommunication and Communication Failure (C. Berger). Conversation (B. Slugoski & D. Hilton). Facework (C. MacMartin, et al.). FACE TO FACE: SPECIAL FUNCTIONS. Arguing (M. Billig). Patronizing (M. Hummert & E. Ryan). Deceiving (J. Tornqvist, et al.). Accounting (R. Buttny & G. Morris). Negotiating (S. Wilson, et al.). Gossiping (N. Emler). SOCIAL RELATIONS. Politeness (T. Holtgraves). Power (S. Ng & S. Reid). Interpersonal Relations (E. Sahlstein & S. Duck). The Observation of Marital Interaction (N. Roberts & P. Noller). SOCIAL CATEGORIES. Multilingual Communication (I. Sachdev & R. Bourhis). A Layered Approach to Ethnicity, Language and Communication (M. Hecht, et al.). Towards a Social Theory of Gender (L. Coates & T. Johnson). Language, Ageing and Ageism (N. Coupland & J. Coupland). APPLIED SETTINGS. Second Language Mystery (R. Clement & R. Gardner). Communication, Relationships and Health (M. Fitzpatrick & A. Vangelisti). Language, Law and Power (W. O'Barr). Active Patients as Powerful Communicators (R. Street). Communication in Organizations: An Intergroup Perspective (J. Gardner, et al.). Language and the Media: An Emerging Field for Social Psychology (P. Lunt & S. Livingstone). Social Psychological Theories of Computer-Mediated Communication: Social Pain or Social Gain (R. Spears, et al.). Epilogue: Jennifer Fortman and Howard Giles. Author Index. Subject Index.
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University of California Press Passions of the Tongue
Book SynopsisWhy would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.
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University of California Press The Language War
Book SynopsisOffers information on who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. This book offers an introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language. It lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet the Undue Attention Test.Trade Review"To say simply that Lakoff is a linguist is like calling the Alps just another mountain range. In The Language War, she brilliantly applies her understanding of how language works to the major political battles of the past decade." - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "An intellectually stimulating probe of the nuances of social, cultural and political infighting among people who think they speak the same language." - Meta G. Carstarphen, Dallas Morning News "Provocative analysis." - Mary Carroll, Booklist "A provocative collection of essays." - Paula Friedman, San Diego Union-Tribune "Lakoff is excellent on sexism in the job market." - Raphael Salkie, The Times Higher Education Supplement "Robin Lakoff is a national treasure. She is one of the most astute and knowledgeable linguists in the country (indeed, in the world), and one of the few who turns her analytic eye to the role of language in popular and political culture. It was she who pioneered the field of gender and language. She is poised to be recognized among the general reading public as she has long been recognized in the field of linguistics." - Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand and The Argument Culture "An excellent book. Robin Lakoff shows that if we do not understand how language is put to work in our world, we cannot understand our world, nor live in it effectively." - John Fiske, author of Media Matters "In a series of provocative, dazzlingly argued essays, Lakoff charts how the media's use of language shapes both public attitudes and social policies on current events.... Witty and illuminating, Lakoff's analysis is an important addition to both linguistic and political studies." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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University of California Press Angloscene
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. Anglosceneexamines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing's aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Jay Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university students are mediated through complex intersectional relationships with whiteness, the English language, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: How does English become more than a languageand whiteness more than a race?Engaging in this inquiry, Ke-Schutteexplores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the discursive contours of a changing transnational political orderone that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations.
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Cambridge University Press Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Book SynopsisThis book unites speech act theory and conversation analysis to advance a theory of conversational competence. It is predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical significance, must be embedded within a general theory of conversational competence capable of accounting for how we do things with words in naturally occurring conversation, and it can usefully be seen as a synthesis of traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. Michael L. Geis analyses a variety of naturally occurring conversations, presenting them within a framework of computational interest and within discourse representation theory. In particular, he offers an explicit mapping of semantic and pragmatic (i.e. speech-act-theoretic) meaning features and politeness features into so-called conventionalized indirect speech act forms.Trade Review"...gives the reader the whole picture from the beginning." Inge Egner, Notes on Linguistics"...much of interest on speech act theory, conversation analysis, and conversational interaction." Jef Verschueren, Anthropological Linguistics"This is an important book. It develops a new, cognitive theory of conversational interaction, Dynamic Speech Act Theory..." Kimary N. Shahin, Canadian Journal of LinguisticsTable of Contents1. The nature of speech acts; 2. Meaning and force; 3. The structure of communicative interactions; 4. Interactional effects; 5. Indirect speech acts; 6. Conventions of use; 7. The structure of conversation; 8. Utterance generation; References; Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisThe study of naturally occurring connected discourse, spoken or written is one of the most promising and rapidly developing areas of linguistics. Traditional linguistics has concentrated on the analysis of single sentence or isolated speech acts.Table of ContentsEditor's Preface. Acknowledgements. Notational Conventions. Part I: Introduction: . Discourse Analysis: A Programmatic Introduction. 1. Language, action, knowledge and situation. 2. The Impossibility of Discourse Analysis. 3. Discourse Analysis and Linguistics. 4. Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics. 5. Terminology. 6. Idealization. 7. The State of the Art. 8. The Organization of the Book. Part II: Three Approaches to Discourse Analysis:. On Speaking Terms: Inspecting Conversational Data:. 9. Discourse Organization. 10. Inspecting Transcribed Data. 11. Some Observations on the Data. 12. Narrative Organisations. 13. Interactional Roles. 14. Discourse Analysis and Interaction. 15. Narrative Structure. 16. Natural Conversation. 17. Native Speaker Fluency. 18. Conclusions. Data Appendix. On the Same Wavelength. 19. Some initial Observations. 20. Data Collection. 21. Problems of Perception. 22. Communicative Problems in the Classroom. 23. Sociolinguistics and Language Variation. 24. Language Functions. 25. Metacommunicative Acts. 26. Monitoring Classroom talk. 27. Two Descriptive Rules of Language Use. 28. Limitations on the Analysis. 29. The Hidden Curriculum or Medium as Message. 30. Object Language and Metalanguage. On a Different Level: Particles, Adverbs and Connectors. 31. Well... 32. Adverbs. 33. Please. 34. Tests for Speech acts. 35. Pragmatic Connectors. 36. Conclusions. Part III: Exchange Structure:. A Linguistic Approach to Discourse: Structures and Well-Formedness. 37. A Linguistic Approach to Discourse. 38. Predictability and well-formedness. 39. Phonotactics. 40. Grammaticality. 41. Intuitions about Discourse Sequences. 42. Predictability. 43. Predictability and Idealization. 44. Structure Controls Meaning. 45. Canonical Discourse and Idealization. 46. Analogies. 47. Conclusions. Initiations and Responses. 48. Questions. 49. Yes-no Questions. 50. X-Questions. 51. An Initial Definition of Exchange. 52. Yes and No. 53. Observational Studies of Yes and No. 54. A-, B- and AB-events. 55. Truth and Certainty. 56. Knowledge and Beliefs. 57. Actives and Passives. 58. Conclusions. Analysing Exchange Structure. 59. Theory, Methodology and Data. 60. Well-formedness in discourse. 61. Notational conventions. 62. Research on Exchange Structures. 63. Sinclair's Work on Discourse. 64. Basic Discourse Categories. 65. Analysis of Complete Interchange. 66. Tests for +/- initial. 67. Some Candidate Analysis. 68. Eliciting Informants' intuitions on Discourse. 69. Concluding Comments. Part IV: Surface Cohesion and Underlying Coherence: . Beneath the Surface of Discourse: Indirection in Speech Acts. 70. Austin: Utterances as Actions. 71. Discourse acts and Speech Acts. 72. Austin's Theory of Speech Acts. 73. Identifying Speech Acts. 74. Speech Acts and Social Roles. 75. Problems for Hearers and Readers. 76. Finding the Answer. 77. Motivating Underlying Acts. 78. Conclusions. On the Surface of Discourse: Prefaces and Alignments. 79. The Indirection Argument. 80. Limitations on Idealized Data. 81. Formulating Turns at Talk. 82. Prefaces. Alignmnets. 83. Acknowledge, Accept and Endorse. 84. Conclusion. Stir Until the Plot Thickens: The Propositional Analysis of Text. 85. A Method for Investigating Narrative Structure. 86. Literacy Competence. 87. Propositions in Stories. 88. The Concepts of Plot and Summary. 89. The Semantics Analysis of Plots. 90. Propositions, Entailments and Presuppositions. 91. Existential presuppositions: or how to tell jokes. 92. Co-reference: One Cat or Two. 93. Entailments and Implications: or how to tell lies. 94. Maxims of Quantity. 95. Implicatures. 96. Summary. 97. The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Literary Language. 98. Prepositional Analysis. 99. Presuppositions. Part V: Methodology: . Collecting Conversational Data: Notes on Sociolinguistic Methodology. 100. The Lack of Accepted Procedures in Discourse Analysis. 101. Labov and Sociolinguistic Methodology. 102. Practical Problems. 103. How Much Data?. 104. Theoretical Biases in Recording. 105. Theoretical Biases in Transcription. 106. Field Notes. 107. Theoretical Sampling. 108. Triangulation. 109. The Problem of Perception. 110. An Illustration. 111. Conclusions. Further Reading. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociolinguistics of Society
Book SynopsisThis is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language; the effect of language and dialect differences on society. Beginning with a general description of the social consequences of several languages being used in one society, Ralph Fasold moves on to discuss ''diglossia'', the phenomena by which social functions are assigned to languages and dialects in a predictable manner. Other aspects of the subject covered here include social attitudes towards various languages and dialects, the social forces which influence multilingual people to use different language sin different situations, and wholesale shifts by social groups from one language to another (and the converse, retention of particular languages. The theory and practice of language planning, and the significance of language in education, are examined and explained. In addition, the book deals with qualitative and quantitative methods of analysing multilingualism and Trade Review"If his second volume is as thoughtful and as informative as his first then he will have made a major contribution both to the teaching of sociolinguistics and to its coming of age as a discrete field of study." Journal of Language and Social PsychologyTable of ContentsEditor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Societal Multilingualism. 2. Diglossia. 3. Qulaitative Formulae. 4. Statistics. 5. Quantitative Analysis. 6. Language Attitudes. 7. Language Choice. 8. Language Maintenance and Shift. 9. Language Planning and Standardization. 10. Language-Planning Cases. 11. Vernacular Language Edition. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Sociolinguistics of Language
Book SynopsisA companion to the author's Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook examines the influence of social interaction on language use, and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic.Table of ContentsEditor's Preface. Introduction. 1. Address Forms. 2. The Ethnography of Communication. 3. Discourse. 4. Language and Sex. 5. Linguistic Pragmatics: Conversatinal Implicature. 6. More on Linguistic Pragmatics. 7. Pidgin and Creole Languages. 8. Linguistic Variation. 9. Some Applications of the Sociolonguistics of Lnaguage. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Anthropological Linguistics
Book SynopsisAnthropological linguistics is concerned with the place of language in its social and cultural context. This book provides a review of research questions which span the disciplines of linguinitics and anthropology, yet presents a biologically based view of this cross-disciplinary field.Trade Review"Foley's book illustrates quite convincingly that 'Linguistics without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics is blind'(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics "I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints of structuralist - inspired approaches to analysis." Peter Muhlhausler, University of AdelaideTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction. Part II: The Evolution of Language. 2. The Evolution of Language. Part III: Universalism: Innate Constraints of Mind. 3. Mind, Universals and the Sensible World. 4. Structuralism. 5. Cognitive Anthropology. 6. Kinship. 7. Color. Part IV: Relativism: Cultural and Linguistic Constraints on Mind. 8. On Relativist Understanding. 9. Models and Metaphors. 10. Linguistic Relativity and the Boasian Tradition. 11. Space. 12. Classifiers. Part V: The Ethnography of Speaking. 13. Speaking as a Culturally Constructed Act: A Few Examples. 14. Politeness, Face and the Linguistic Construction of Personhood. 15. Language and Gender. 16. Language and Social Position. 17. Language and Socialisation. 18. Genre: Poetics, Ritual Languages and Verbal Art. Part VI: Culture and Language Change. 19. Contact Induced Language Change. 20. Standard Language and Linguistic Engineering. 21. Literacy. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Language of News Media
Book SynopsisWritten by a linguist who is himself a journalist, this is a uniquely informed account of the language of the news media. Based in the frameworks of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis its concerns are with the notion of the news story, the importance of the processes which produce media language and the role of the audience.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Editor's Preface. Introduction and Acknowledgements. 1. Media and Language. 1.1. Why Study Media Language?. 1.2. Media Language Research and the disciplines. 1.3. Themes of the book. 2. Researching Media Language. 2.1. Universe and sample. 2.2. What's news: defining genres. 2.3. News outlets. 2.4. News outputs. 2.5. Pitfalls, shortcuts and the wrong way round. 2.6. The media react to research. 3. The Production of News Language. 3.1. Many hands make tight work. 3.2. Producer roles in news language. 3.3. The news assembly line. 3.4. Embedding in the news text. 4. Authoring and Editing the News Text. 4.1. Constructing the news text. 4.2. How news is edited. 4.3. Why edit?. 5. The Audience for Media Language. 5.1. Disjunction and isolation. 5.2. Multiple roles in the audience. 5.3. Audience embedding. 5.4. Communications as audience. 6. Stylin' the News: Audience Design. 6.1. Style in language. 6.2. Style and audience status in the British press. 6.3. Audience design in New Zealand radio. 6.4. Editing copy for style. 7. Talking Strange: Referee Design in Media Language. 7.1. Taking the initiative. 7.2. The referees. 7.3. Television advertisements as referee design. 8. Telling Stories. 8.1. News stories and personal narratives. 8.2. News values. 8.3. News as stories. 8.4. The structure of news stories. 9. Makeup of the News Story. 9.1. The lead. 9.2. Headlines. 9.3. News stories and actors. 9.4. Time and place in the news. 9.5. Facts and figures. 9.6. Talking heads. 10. Telling It Like It Isn't. 10.1. Approaches to media miscommunication. 10.2. Misreporting: the climate case change. 10.3. Misediting international news. 11. (Mis)understanding the News. 11.1. Recall and comprehension. 11.2. The public misunderstand climate change. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language History and Class
Book SynopsisThis investigation of how societies have understood and described themselves is concerned both with the history of language and the language of history. Chapters include studies of societies in Germany, China, USA and India, pre-revolutionary France and 19th-century Britain and America.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Penelope J.Corfield; estates, degrees and sorts - changing perceptions of society in Tudor and Stuart England, Keigh Wrightson; "hidalgo" and "pechero" - the language of "estates" and "classes" in early-modern Castile, I.A.A.Thompson; definitions of nobility in 17th century France, Roger Mettam; class by name and munber in 18th-century Britain, Penelope J.Corfield; the emergence of "Society" in 18th and 19th century Germany, James Van Horn Melton; from gentlemen to the residuum - languages of social description in Victorian Britain, Geoffrey Crossick; "To each a language of his own" language, culture and society in colonial India, David Washbrook; the language of representation - towards a Muslim political order in 19th century India, Farzana Shaikh; Chinese views of social classification, Philip A.Kuhn; languages of power in the United States, Daniel T.Rodgers and Sean Wilentz; language and interpretation - Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American activities, William Downes.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language Society and the Elderly
Book SynopsisLanguage, Society and the Elderly is the first concerted attempt to give a social account of language and interaction in later life. The book gives a detailed critique of the cognitive bias of existing studies of elderly people''s language. In its place, the authors propose a socially-based approach which explains how older people''s life circumstances, concerns, goals and beliefs influence their styles of interaction. But social stereotypes of old age and a generally ageist social climate limit the roles available to elderly people. In detailed analyses of talk between elderly people and younger adults, the authors show how age and health identifies are negotiated. They look particularly at sequences of troubles-telling and moments of painful self-disclosure by elderly people, examining how even supportive talk to the elderly can threaten identity and reinforce social divisions. Language, Society and the Elderly opens up an entirely new field for sociolinguistics. It also showsTable of ContentsLanguage and later life - incipient literatures; discourse, accommodation and intergenerational relations; formulating age - discursive dimensions of age-identity; "my life in your hands" - processes of intergenerational self-disclosure; troubles-telling, facework and age-identity; telling age in later life - a strategic analysis; intergenerational talk - consonance or conflict?; sociolingiuistics and gerontology - applied concerns.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Men Talk P
Book SynopsisMen Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chatting after hours. Focuses on stories, which occur within all-male conversations. Makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the intersection of language and masculinity. Trade Review‘Though many blandly assert that gender is socially constructed, few really understand how. In this insightful work, Jennifer Coates takes us inside, deep inside, the construction of masculinities and enables us to watch them in the process of their construction, as men use language to create gendered meanings and hierarchies, and are, in turn, made by those very meanings.’ Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook and author of The Gendered Society ‘Men Talk is the first in-depth study of all-male conversations. Coates’s book takes a fresh look at the way in which men's use of language helps to maintain, and sometimes challenge, traditional gender boundaries.’ Sally Johnson, Lancaster University "Very readable, grounded in data, with the chapters very logically and clearly linked, providing a degree of overall coherence that is often missing in books of this kind...[the book contains a] wealth of detail and careful empirical analysis." Discourse and SocietyTable of Contents1. 'We was Playing Naked Football the Other Night': Introduction. 2. 'Good Story!': The Formal Characteristics of Male Narrative. 3. 'So I Thought ‘Bollocks to it': Men, Stories and Masculinities. 4. 'Bad as My Mate': Stories in Sequence. 5. 'She'd Made Sardines in Aspic': Women's Stories, Men's Stories and the Construction of Gender. 6. 'I'm Quite Good at Mexican Food': Men's Narratives in Mixed Conversation. 7. 'Still in Shock Weren't You Darling': Masculinity and the Heterosexual Couple. 8. 'There are Problems': Men's Talk and Contemporary Masculinities. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Professional Communication in International
Book SynopsisIn today's global business environment it is necessary to communicate across cultural boundaries of languages, styles, and values. This text aims to help individuals deal with different cultural practices by developing their capacity to learn culturally appropriate behaviours and actions.Trade Review"The Scollons have long been leaders in the field of intercultural communication. Now Yuling Pan brings her extensive research and consulting experience to join with them in providing a theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous, and eminently practical approach to business communication in an international environment. Their 'three-cultures' exchange model avoids the common pitfall of binary cultural comparison, and their case history approach demonstrates the effectiveness of using multiple perspectives to address the complexity of real workplace situations. This rich and insightful book will prove invaluable to individuals working in international contexts and the trainers who prepare them, and to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of intercultural communication." Deborah Tannen, author of I Only Say This Because I Love You "[Professional communication in international settings] is scholarly and extremely informative, yet it is also enjoyable to read with its illuminating examples...This book is a must for business people or professionsal who strive to achieve a better understanding and more effective communication in cross-cultural interactions." Language in Society "Rich with culture-specific communication examples, the book contributes to our understanding of intercultural communication." Language PolicyTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. 1.Analyzing Communication in the International Workplace. 2. The Telephone Call: When Technology Intervenes. 3. The Resumé: A Corporate "Trojan Horse". 4. The Presentation: From Dale Carnegie to Ananova the Avatar. 5. The Meeting: Action or Ratification?. 6. The Reflective View: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us. Appendices: Reflective Self-Assessment. 1: The Communication Display Portfolio Exchange Planner. 2: Presenting Across Cultures. 3: Suggestions for Users. Further Reading. References. Index.
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The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Rai Mythology Kiranti Oral Texts
Book SynopsisThe more than two dozen Rai languages in eastern Nepal, which make up the larger part of the Kiranti language family, are linguistically highly varied. This volume for the first time brings together different variants of myths from various Rai languages, presenting them with linguistic glossings in interlinear translations.
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Princeton University Press Solo in the New Order Language and Hierarchy in
Book SynopsisAn ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the 'accidents' that precede the formulations of culture as such.Trade Review"Few ethnographies can match Solo in the New Order, inspired as it is by Siegel's crafted obsession with the limits of categories of thought—both Western and Javanese. His eye for incongruent particularities and odd juxtapositions allows him to engage critically the relationship between the "uncanny' and attempts to domesticate its manifestations—through translation practices, historical revisionism, vernacular concepts of the senses, discourses on death and gambling, among others—and makes his work valuable to anyone interested not only in theorizing cultural studies but in carrying out its practical implications and radical possibilities as well."—Vincente Rafael, University of California, San Diego"Few books succeed as well as this one in addressing the most urgent of Western intellectual concerns while remaining entirely within the purview of a non-Western social and cultural field."—Sam Weber, University of California, Los Angeles
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Princeton University Press Fetish Recognition Revolution
Book SynopsisConcerns the role of language in the Indonesian revolution. This book traces the beginnings of the Indonesian revolution, which occurred from 1945 through 1949 and which ended Dutch colonial rule, to the last part of the nineteenth century.Trade Review"Siegel's analysis is convincing. It summoned Sumatran recollections of creating urban modernity through adopting music, clothing, language, and books from European sources, yet perceiving these new elements as effortlessly translated into a new Indonesian cultural world."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Pt. IThe Fetish of AppearanceCh. 1The "I" of a Lingua Franca13Ch. 2What Did Not Happen to Indonesians38Ch. 3Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal?54Pt. IIRecognitionCh. 4Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom97Ch. 5Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism115Ch. 6Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation134Ch. 7The Wish for Hierarchy161Pt. IIIRevolutionCh. 8Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion183Ch. 9Revolution208Epilogue231Notes255
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Princeton University Press Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisBrings together a range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. This work features K Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality.Trade Review"Original and important... The essays by Taylor and the other contributors raise the debate to a new level, providing it with the high moral seriousness it deserves."--Lawrence Blum, Boston Review "Multiculturalism ... is packed with depth, intelligence, and (to revive an old-fashioned word) wisdom... It is highly relevant to pressing debates about nationalism and its identity."--Michael Saward, The Times Higher Education Supplement "[Taylor's] comments about multiculturalism in particular demonstrate his knack for finding sensible middle ground between unreasonable extremes... His writing here is clear, direct, and refreshingly free of philosophical jargon. He is also delightfully nonpartisan."--David McCabe, Commonweal "Multiculturalism ... is packed with depth, intelligence, and (to revive an old-fashioned word) wisdom."--Michael Saward, The Times Higher Education Supplement "[Taylor's] comments about multiculturalism ... demonstrate his knack for finding sensible middle ground between unreasonable extremes... His writing here is clear, direct, and refreshingly free of philosophical jargon. He is also delightfully nonpartisan."--David McCabe, Commonweal "... engaging, thought-provoking, suggestive, full of insights on questions of intellectual history, philosophical and moral psychology, and current issues in political philosophy and practice."--Ethics "Because it impinges upon so much--from campus speech to bilingual education to the causes and effects of political correctness--the current discussion on multiculturalism is essential to understanding Western academic culture as it exists today (and as it will exist in the future). This book is a valuable guide to the complexities involved."--Washington TimesTable of ContentsPreface (1994) ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiii PART ONE 1 Introduction Amy Gutmann 3 The Politics of Recognition Charles Taylor 25 Comment Susan Wolf 75 Comment Steven C. Rockefeller 87 Comment Michael Walzer 99 PART TWO 105 Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State Jurgen Habermas Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen 107 Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction K. Anthony Appiah 149 Contributors 165 Index 169
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Princeton University Press Voicing Politics
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Princeton University Press Voicing Politics
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Princeton University Press Revolution of Things
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics. To show how shifting relations between things and terms form the grounds for different modes of action, Sefat reconstructs the political history of postrevolutionary Iran at the intersection of everyday objects and words. Just as Islamism fashioned its own objects in Tehran during the 1980s, he explains, tyrannical objects generated a distinct form of Islamism by means of their material properties; everyday things from walls to shoes to foods were active political players that helped consolidate the Islamic Republic. Moreover, President Rafsanjani's liberalization in the 1990s was based not merely on state policies and post-Islamist ideologies but also on the unlikely thingsincluding consumer products fr
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Princeton University Press Words and Distinctions for the Common Good
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Pluto Press Language Wars
Book SynopsisShows how the media is implicated in global terrorism, and how the language it uses has changed since 9/11.Trade Review'A finely textured wave of narration and acute analysis' -- Professor Paul James, RMIT University'An original and important contribution' -- Kirsty Best, Assistant Professor, University of OttawaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Media, Political Violence and Language Wars 2. Global Culture and the New East/West Divide 3. The Meaning of 9/11 4. The Invasion of Iraq 5. Bali and the Global Jihad 6. Occupation, Violation and the New Public Sphere 7. Conclusion: Meaning and Death References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Semiotics
Book SynopsisaeoWritten as a textbook for students in communication and cultural studies. aeoRich with e xamples and illustrations. aeo Presents a comprehensive and original theoretical approach. aeoThe authors are well--known and this book builds upon their previous and highly successful works.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Social Semiotics. 2. The Founding Fathers Revisited. 3. Context as Meaning:. The Semiosic Dimension. 4. Styles as Ideology. 5. Social Definitions of the Real. 6. Transformation and Times. 7. Transformation of Love and Power:. The Social Meaning of Narrative. 8. Entering Semiosis:. Training Subjects for Culture. Appendix. Bibliography. References.satisfactoralty
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Talk and Social Structure
Book SynopsisTalk and Social Structure is an up-to-date and provocative survey of current developments combining the complementary fields of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. The book provides a distinctive debate that relates these innovative areas to important issues in the social sciences.Trade Review'Boden and Zimmerman's collection takes us to the forefront of exploration of this terrain.' Randall Collins, University of California 'This is a collection of powerful studies. It embraces the major and criterial debates in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis ... this volume contains studies which will stand as 'state of the art' in these debates - studies whose authors are leading international figures in the field.' Rod Watson, University of Manchester 'A rich collection of empirical studies which not only make an important contribution to our understanding of language use and social interaction, but also illuminate some of the current debates between the so-called micro and macro approaches to the analysis of social action.' Christian Heath, University of Surrey 'An excellent overview ... one could not ask for a more provocative and exciting collection of papers on a problem that is central to the social scientific enterprise.' Discourse and Society 'This is an excellent collection which attempts to explore fundamental features of social analyses.' Language and EducationTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Structure in Action: An Introduction: Don H. Zimmerman and Deirdre Boden. Part I. Current Debates:. 2. Social Structure and the Sequential Organization of Interaction: Thomas P. Wilson. 3. Reflections on Talk and Social Structure: Emanuel A. Schegloff. 4. The School's Work of Sorting Students: Hugh Mehan. Part II. Talk and Institutions:. 5. On the Institutional Character of Institutional Talk: The Case of News Interviews: John Heritage and David Greatbatch. 6. Talk and Institution: A Reconsideration of the 'Asymmetry' of Doctor-Patient Interaction: Paul Have. 7. Perspective-Display Sequences and the Delivery and Receipt of Diagnostic News: Douglas W. Maynard. Part III. Structure in Action:. 8. The Structure of Direction-Giving in Interaction: George Psathas. 9. Hold the Phone: Robert Hopper. 10. Opening Sequences in Dutch Telephone Conversations: Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra. 11. Conversation-in-a-Series: Graham Button. Appendix I: Transcription Notation. Notes on Contributors. References.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language Self and Society A Social History of
Book SynopsisThis important book examines the role of written and spoken language in shaping our sense of reality, in exchanges of social life, and in fashioning our sense of self. It develops a distinctive, socio--historical approach to these issues, offering a range of illuminating studies in the social history of language.Trade Review'The broad concentration upon a generally-neglected period of language history (the 17th and 18th centuries) is wholly welcome... Nigel Smith is fascinating on 'The Uses of Hebrew in the English Revolution' and Peter Burke's little sketch of post-Medieval uses of Latin is wide ranging and excellent.' The London Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Heu domine, adsunt Turcae: A Sketch for a Social History of Post-medieval Latin: Peter Burke. 2. The Uses of Hebrew in the English Revolution: Nigel Smith. 3. From Shibboleth to Apocalypse: Quaker Speechways during the Puritan Revolution: Hugh Ormsby-Lennon. 4. 'New World of English Words': John Ray, FRS, the Dialect Protagonist, in the Context of his Times (1658 - 1691): Jo Gladstone. 5. The People's English: Language and Class in England c.1840 - 1920: Patrick Joyce. 6. Languages and Conquerors: Victor Kiernan. 7. Towards a Semiotics of the Nerve: The Social History of Language in a New Key: G. S. Rousseau. 8. Expressing Yourself Ill: The Language of Sickness in Georgian England: Roy Porter. 9. 'A New Sort of Logick and Critick': Etymological Interpretation in Horne Tooke's The Diversions of Purley: Daniel Rosenberg. Afterword: Dell Hymes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Worlds of Talk The Presentation of Self in
Book Synopsis* Fascinating account of how we present ourselves in everyday talk and conversation which is explained through methods of conversation analysis. * Combines theoretical discussion with fine--grained analysis of ordinary conversation* Offers an understanding towards how selves are created and transformed in everyday talk.Trade Review"Malone sets out to demonstrate that sociological notions - particularly those of symbolic interactionism - can profitably be used to understand what goes on in talk and that sociology itself would profit from a recognition of talk as fundamental sociological data. He does this by examining records of extensive contexted conversational fragments and by showing how the talk itself enables one to elaborate the concepts of self, interaction, gender, ideology and moral order. His arguments, documented by actual talk, are persuasive." Allen GrimshawTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements ix Transcription Conventions xiv 1 The Interaction Order and the Self 1 2 Pragmatic and Phenomenological Foundations of Interactionism 21 3 Pronouns, Interactional Roles, and the Construction of a Conversation 42 4 Gender and Talk: Ideology and Interaction 77 5 How to Do Things with Friends: Altercasting and Recipient Design 100 6 Small Disagreements: Character Contests and Working Consensus 120 7 Conclusions 140 Appendix: Data and Methods 150 Notes 156 References 164 Index 179
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Talk and Social Theory Ecologies of Speaking and
Book SynopsisTalk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation.Trade Review"This latest book by Erickson addresses an issue that is very timely and topical ... the puzzle it seeks to crack is one that has long haunted researchers in social sciences and related areas." Journal of Sociolinguistics "I cannot think of another social science scholar who has done more to move qualitative research and methodology in creative directions…among the most important contributions to social theory in recent years." Regina Smardon, University of Pennsylvania "Frederick Erickson is someone who illuminates details of talk and interaction. More than that, he illuminates where we stand in making sense of human life in terms of social theory. This is a book not to be missed." Dell Hymes, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsDedication. Preface. Acknowledgements. PART ONE: Examples of the conduct of talk. 1. Sketching the terrain. 2. Seventy-five dollars goes in a day. 3. I can make a "P". 4. You wrestlin’?. 5. He has no history of IVDA. PART TWO: Thinking about talk and social theory. 6. General perspectives on talk and social theory. 7 Toward a more practical theory of practices in talk. 8 Summing up. Further Reading. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Semiotics for a Complex World
Book SynopsisSocial semiotics reveals language?s social meaning ? its structures, processes, conditions and effects ? in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination. Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and strategies for better understanding key problems and issues involving language and social action in today?s hyper-complex world driven by globalization and new media. Its semiotic basis incorporates insights from various schools of linguistics (such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics) as well as from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and literary studies. It employs a multi-modal perspective to follow meaning across all modes of language and media, and a multi-scalar approach that ranges between databases and one-word slogansTrade Review"Few scholars are as qualified as Bob Hodge to reassess, in yet another sweeping and erudite synthesis, what social semiotics can mean in a world in which communication is changing fast and gaining more and more power and influence in the process. Hodge�s eclectic approach brings out the best of recent decades of work in a truly innovative and refreshing text." Jan M. E. Blommaert, Tilburg University "This is a thoughtful, original and stimulating account of social semiotics as a uniquely powerful and inclusive framework for analysing the essential contribution of language and meaning in effective action: they are 'part of every problem and every attempted solution.' The book provides valuable insights into how this works in complex, digital and multimodal contemporary social practices." Norman Fairclough Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsPreface PART I: Principles and Practices Chapter 1: Key Concepts Chapter 2: Some Notes on Method PART II: From Linguistics to Semiotics Chapter 3: Words Chapter 4: Grammar Chapter 5: Reading and Meaning PART III: Meaning and Society Chapter 6: The Semiotics of Reality Chapter 7: Ideology and Social Meaning Chapter 8: Multiscalar Analysis Chapter 9: Conclusions
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Semiotics for a Complex World
Book SynopsisSocial semiotics reveals language?s social meaning ? its structures, processes, conditions and effects ? in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination. Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and strategies for better understanding key problems and issues involving language and social action in today?s hyper-complex world driven by globalization and new media. Its semiotic basis incorporates insights from various schools of linguistics (such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics) as well as from sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology and literary studies. It employs a multi-modal perspective to follow meaning across all modes of language and media, and a multi-scalar approach that ranges between databases and one-word slogansTrade Review"Few scholars are as qualified as Bob Hodge to reassess, in yet another sweeping and erudite synthesis, what social semiotics can mean in a world in which communication is changing fast and gaining more and more power and influence in the process. Hodge�s eclectic approach brings out the best of recent decades of work in a truly innovative and refreshing text." Jan M. E. Blommaert, Tilburg University "This is a thoughtful, original and stimulating account of social semiotics as a uniquely powerful and inclusive framework for analysing the essential contribution of language and meaning in effective action: they are 'part of every problem and every attempted solution.' The book provides valuable insights into how this works in complex, digital and multimodal contemporary social practices." Norman Fairclough Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsPreface PART I: Principles and Practices Chapter 1: Key Concepts Chapter 2: Some Notes on Method PART II: From Linguistics to Semiotics Chapter 3: Words Chapter 4: Grammar Chapter 5: Reading and Meaning PART III: Meaning and Society Chapter 6: The Semiotics of Reality Chapter 7: Ideology and Social Meaning Chapter 8: Multiscalar Analysis Chapter 9: Conclusions
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