Sociolinguistics Books
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
£32.27
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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John Wiley & Sons Inc Spoken Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue
Book SynopsisDialogue systems are a very appealing technology with an extraordinary future. Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogues Systems: Development and Assessment addresses the great demand for information about the development of advanced dialogue systems combining speech with other modalities under a multilingual framework. It aims to give a systematic overview of dialogue systems and recent advances in the practical application of spoken dialogue systems. Spoken Dialogue Systems are computer-based systems developed to provide information and carry out simple tasks using speech as the interaction mode. Examples include travel information and reservation, weather forecast information, directory information and product order. Multimodal Dialogue Systems aim to overcome the limitations of spoken dialogue systems which use speech as the only communication means, while Multilingual Systems allow interaction with users that speak different languages. Presents a clear Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction to Dialogue Systems. 1.1 Human-Computer Interaction and Speech Processing. 1.2 Spoken Dialogue Systems. 1.3 Multimodal Dialogue Systems. 1.4 Multilingual Dialogue Systems. 1.5 Dialogue Systems Referenced in This Book. 1.6 Area Organisation and Research Directions. 1.7 Overview of the Book. 1.8 Further Reading. 2. Technologies Employed to Set Up Dialogue Systems. 2.1 Input Interface. 2.2 Multimodal Processing. 2.3 Output Interface. 2.4 Summary. 2.5 Further Reading. 3. Multimodal Dialogue Systems. 3.1 Benefits of Multimodal Interaction. 3.2 Development of Multimodal Dialogue Systems. 3.3 Summary. 3.5 Further Reading. 4. Multilingual Dialogue Systems. 4.1 Implications of Multilinguality in the Architecture of Dialogue Systems. 4.2 Multilingual Dialogue Systems Based on Interlingua. 4.3 Multilingual Dialogue Systems Based on Web Applications. 4.4 Summary. 4.5 Further Reading. 5. Dialogue Annotation, Modelling and Management. 5.1 Dialogue Annotation. 5.2 Dialogue Modelling. 5.3 Dialogue Management. 5.4 Implications of Multimodality in the Dialogue Management. 5.5 Implications of Mulitlinguality in the Dialogue Management. 5.6 Implications of Task Independency in the Dialogue Management. 5.7 Summary. 5.8 Further Reading. 6. Development Tools. 6.1 Tools for Spoken and Multilingual Dialogue Systems. 6.2 Standards and Tools for Multimodal Dialogue Systems. 6.3 Summary. 6.4 Further Reading. 7. Assessment. 7.1 Overview of Evaluation Techniques. 7.2 Evaluation of Spoken and Multilingual Dialogue Systems. 7.3 Evaluation of Multimodal Dialogue Systems. 7.4 Summary. 7.5 Further Reading. Appendix A: Basic Tutorial on VoiceXML. Appendix B: Multimodal Databases. Appendix C: Coding Schemes for Multimodal Resources. Appendix D: URLs of Interest. Appendix E: List of Abbreviations. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisThe second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research to have developed since the original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and discourse-analytic models, in an authoritative two-volume set.Trade Review"this Blackwell volume is the best volume for specialists because of its breadth and clear aim to write for professional linguists." (Exegetical Tools 2016) ‘The 2nd edition of The Handbook of Discourse Analysis boasts chapters by major figures (e.g. Gumperz, Holmes, Johnstone, Labov, Lakoff, Schegloff, Ochs, Shuy, Tannen, van Dijk, Wodak) and its reconfiguration of chapters captures important scholarly trends in discourse analytic research and reflects a fairly substantive reconceptualization of the field.’ (Susan Ehrlich, Journal of Sociolinguistics 20/2, 2016).Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xi Preface to the Second Edition xix Introduction to the First Edition 1 VOLUME I I Linguistic Analysis of Discourse 9 1 Discourse and Grammar 11MARIANNE MITHUN 2 Intertextuality in Discourse 42ADAM HODGES 3 Cohesion and Texture 61J. R. MARTIN 4 Intonation and Discourse 82ELIZABETH COUPER-KUHLEN 5 Voice Registers 105MARK A. SICOLI 6 Computer-Mediated Discourse 2.0 127SUSAN C. HERRING AND JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS 7 Discourse Analysis and Narrative 152ANNA DE FINA AND BARBARA JOHNSTONE 8 Humor and Laughter 168SALVATORE ATTARDO 9 Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and Context 189YAEL MASCHLER AND DEBORAH SCHIFFRIN 10 Historical Discourse Analysis 222LAUREL J. BRINTON 11 Discourse, Space, and Place 244ELIZABETH KEATING 12 Gesture in Discourse 262DAVID MCNEILL, ELENA T. LEVY, AND SUSAN D. DUNCAN II Approaches and Methodologies 291 13 Nine Ways of Looking at Apologies: The Necessity for Interdisciplinary Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis 293ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF 14 Interactional Sociolinguistics: A Personal Perspective 309JOHN J. GUMPERZ 15 Framing and Positioning 324CYNTHIA GORDON 16 Conversational Interaction: The Embodiment of Human Sociality 346EMANUEL A. SCHEGLOFF 17 Transcribing Embodied Action 367PAUL LUFF AND CHRISTIAN HEATH 18 Constraining and Guiding the Flow of Discourse 391WALLACE CHAFE 19 Imagination in Narratives 406HERBERT H. CLARK AND MIJA M. VAN DER WEGE 20 Oral Discourse as a Semiotic Ecology: The Co-construction and Mutual Influence of Speaking, Listening, and Looking 422FREDERICK ERICKSON 21 Multimodality 447THEO VAN LEEUWEN 22 Critical Discourse Analysis 466TEUN A. VAN DIJK 23 Computer-Assisted Methods of Analyzing Textual and Intertextual Competence 486MICHAEL STUBBS 24 Register Variation: A Corpus Approach 505SHELLEY STAPLES, JESSE EGBERT, DOUGLAS BIBER, AND SUSAN CONRAD VOLUME II III The Individual, Society, and Culture 527 25 Voices of the Speech Community: Six People I Have Learned From 529WILLIAM LABOV 26 Language Ideologies 557SUSAN U. PHILIPS 27 Discourse and Racism 576RUTH WODAK AND MARTIN REISIGL 28 Code-Switching, Identity, and Globalization 597KIRA HALL AND CHAD NILEP 29 Cross-cultural and Intercultural Communication and Discourse Analysis 620SCOTT F. KIESLING 30 Discourse and Gender 639SHARI KENDALL AND DEBORAH TANNEN 31 Queer Linguistics as Critical Discourse Analysis 661WILLIAM L. LEAP 32 Child Discourse 681AMY KYRATZIS AND JENNY COOK-GUMPERZ 33 Discourse and Aging 705HEIDI E. HAMILTON AND TOSHIKO HAMAGUCHI 34 Discursive Underpinnings of Family Coordination 728ELINOR OCHS AND TAMAR KREMER-SADLIK IV Discourse in Real-World Contexts 753 35 Institutional Discourse 755ANDREA MAYR 36 Political Discourse 775JOHNWILSON 37 Discourse and Media 795COLLEEN COTTER 38 Discourse Analysis in the Legal Context 822ROGER W. SHUY 39 Discourse and Health Communication 841RODNEY H. JONES 40 Discourse in Educational Settings 858CAROLYN TEMPLE ADGER AND LAURA J. WRIGHT 41 Discourse in theWorkplace 880JANET HOLMES 42 Discourse and Religion 902MICHAEL LEMPERT Author Index 921 Subject Index 939
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Cambridge University Press Gender Shifts in the History of English
Book SynopsisHow did grammatical gender in English get replaced by a system dependent on natural gender? How is this related to 'irregular agreement' (she for ships) and 'sexist' language use (generic he) in Modern English? This study, based on extensive corpus data, offers an important historical perspective on these controversial questions.Trade Review'This book is clearly written and accessible to undergraduates in a variety of disciplines, not just in the field of linguistics. It would also be of interest to those in the area of gender studies and mediaeval history. Each of the main analytical chapters opens with a contemporary question which contextualises the relevance of the study within Modern English footnoting elaborates points made throughout.' Journal of Sociolinguistics'Let me just say that I wish to give it the highest possible marks for its scholarship, convincing argumentation, admirable historical insights, and exactitude. I am sure it will be a valuable textbook in a number of academic disciplines such as English, sociolinguistics, and women's studies.' Language in SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Defining English gender; 2. The gender shift in histories of English; 3. A history of gender, people and pronouns: the story of generic he; 4. Third-person pronouns in the gender shift: why is that ship a she?; 5. Gender and asymmetrical word histories: when boys could be girls; 6. Implications for non-sexist language reform; Appendix 1. Background on early English personal pronouns; Appendix 2. Helsinki corpus texts and methodology; References; Index.
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Georgetown University Press Language Acquisition after Puberty German Perez
Book SynopsisBridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, this title explores what theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Durkheim and the Internet
Book SynopsisJan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.Trade ReviewBlommaert's book is a theoretical tour-de-force, entertaining, challenging and immensely enlightening. It encompasses a wide swath of thinking about the relationship between language and society, both in history and now. * Internet Pragmatics *Once again, Blommaert challenges sociolinguists to reflect on our discipline in new and exciting ways. While we have long devoted much energy to the linguistic half of the sociolinguistic equation, here Blommaert makes a compelling argument for engaging more fully with the social half, and for the relevance of classical sociology to understanding the new ways language is being used in the age of globalisation and digital communication. * Rodney H. Jones, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading, UK *In this concise but absorbing book, Blommaert provides a highly persuasive argument for why sociology should engage seriously with research into language. In doing so he details the profound and wide-ranging benefits that the study of communicative interaction can offer for a theorization of society in general. The book is likely to become essential reading for both sociolinguists, sociologists, and those interested in the ways that digital media are transforming the modern world. * Philip Seargeant, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University, UK *Table of Contents1. Sociolinguists as sociologists 2. Durkheim’s social fact 2.1 Norms and concepts 2.2 Integration and anomie 2.3 Durkheim’s impact and the challenge of 'Rational Choice' 3. Sociolinguistics and the social fact: Avec Durkheim 3.1 Language as a normative collective system: ordered indexicality 3.2 Language variation: dialects, accents & languaging 3.3 Inequality, voice, repertoire 3.4 Language, the social fact 4. What Durkheim could not have known: Après Durkheim 4.1 Preliminary: A theory of vernacular globalization 4.2 An indexical-polynomic theory of social norms 4.3 A genre theory of social action 4.4 A microhegemonic theory of identity 4.5 A theory of “light” social groups 4.6 A polycentric theory of social integration 4.7 Constructures 4.8 Anachronism as power 5. The sociological re-imagination References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Applied Linguistics and Politics
Book SynopsisChristian W. Chun is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.Trade ReviewThis excellent volume brings together an impressive assembly of scholars from around the world to explore a range of contexts relevant to the study of language and politics, from media, to economics, to education. Each contribution stands as a dramatic reminder of the relevance of Applied Linguistics to the precarious political moment we find ourselves in. * Rodney H. Jones, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading, UK *At a time when many of us are bewildered and dismayed by the political terrain we find ourselves navigating, Chun has assembled an international gathering of extraordinary, insightful scholars, including the now-late Jan Blommaert, who offer analyses of languaging and discourse practices across a shockingly broad array of (often under-researched) communities and realms and shed much-needed clarity on the crucial question of how the work of applied linguists can change the political conditions of lives.” * Suhanthie Motha, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Washington, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Part I. Media 1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Part II. Economy 3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism’s Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK) 4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria) 5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore) Part III. Culture and Identity 6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Part IV. Affect 8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Part V. Education 10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong) 11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index
£150.00
Edinburgh University Press New Perspectives on English Word Stress
Book SynopsisThe study of English word stress: New perspectives on its history, current state and issues.
£95.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Pennsylvania Dutch
Book SynopsisDrawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents-most of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readers-this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story.Trade Review[ Pennsylvania Dutch] is written in a very accessible style and provides good information about the Pennsylvania Dutch language. Canadian Mennonite Louden captures the spirit of the folk-cultural narrative and remains engaging, accessible and entertaining to a wide range of audiences. Pennsylvania Heritage Mark Louden, author of Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language, surely has written the definitive guide to the subject. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society Indeed, this is a one-of-a-kind, exceptionally valuable book... So, scrape your pennies together, and go buy this book-before it's sold out! Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Louden's interdisciplinary work, sweeping as it does through centuries of history and across a vast continent, draws on three decades of study into the language's evolution and social history. Mennonite World Review Louden successfully weaves a complex tapestry that provides an exhaustive historical account of this language and its speakers and is easily accessible to multiple audiences. Upon finishing this work the scholar is left curious as to what the future holds for Pennsylvania Dutch and its legacy. H-Net Reviews This book is the first attempt at researching and synthesizing the historical, cultural, and linguistic development of Pennsylvania Dutch across all the communities that speak it. It is a bold and broad goal. I'm happy to say that Louden has set the highest standard for any subsequent attempts... It is wonderful story to follow from 1683 to the present. Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story o f an American Language is a splendid addition to the discipline of linguistics and, more specifically, to the field of Pennsylvania Dutch language and culture. A language this remarkable-thanks to its Old Order speakers, it is one of only a few heritage languages in America that is not endangered-deserves a firstrate book, and this is it. It will likely be unsurpassed for years to come. Communal Societies...Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. What Is Pennsylvania Dutch?2. Early History of Pennsylvania Dutch3. Pennsylvania Dutch, 1800–18604. Profiles in Pennsylvania Dutch Literature5. Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye6. Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish and Mennonites7. An American StoryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Edinburgh University Press Campus Talk
Book SynopsisThe first of two workbooks aimed at upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness and develop active listening skills.
£105.00
Edinburgh University Press Campus Talk
Book SynopsisThese workbooks are aimed at upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness and develop active listening skills.
£105.00
Edinburgh University Press Rethinking Language Policy
Book SynopsisDrawing on four decades of research, Bernard Spolskypresents an updated theory of language policy that starts with the individual speaker instead of the nation.
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Edinburgh University Press World Englishes
Book SynopsisTraces the recent history of the English language, covering all contexts of use equallyTrade Review"The work of a leading scholar in the field, this volume is the most original work on this topic to be published in recent years. Wide-ranging and insightful, Prof van Rooy's book covers such topics as the history of world Englishes, Inner Circle and Outer Circle varieties, language contact, migration, and English on the Internet. One particular strength of this volume is the insight into the sociolinguistics of English as a global language, with reference to such processes as language transplantation, language contact, language shift, and the linguistic analysis of varieties of English." -Kingsley Bolton, Stockholm University
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Social Justice and the Language Classroom
Book SynopsisPedagogical principles and practices to integrate social justice issues into your language classroomTrade Review"Social Justice and the Language Classroom makes a compelling and grounded argument for connecting social justice, language education and decolonial perspectives. As language educators we cannot sit silently by in the face of local and wider injustices. It shows both why critical language education projects are essential and how they can be developed." -Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Homemaking in the RussianSpeaking Diaspora
Book SynopsisExamines the material culture of Russian-speaking migrantsTrade Review"All the chapters show how the material objects we often take for granted become part of us and keep us alive. Everyone will find reading this book intellectually and spiritually rewarding and will see their surrounding objects and themselves in a new light." -Igor Klyukanov, Eastern Washington University
£99.90
University of South Carolina Press Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Book SynopsisA unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa. Initially published in 1949, this groundbreaking work of Afrocentric scholarship opened American minds to a little-known culture while initiating a means for the Gullah people to reclaim and value their past. The book presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and education, offering important reminders about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural prejudice. In their introduction to the volume, Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery set the text in its sociolinguistic context, explore recent developments in the celebration of Gullah culture, and honor Turner with a recounting of his life and scholarly accomplishments.
£27.70
University of New Orleans Press Immigration as a Process: Temporality Concepts in
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Georgetown University Press Arabic Sociolinguistics: Topics in Diglossia,
Book SynopsisIn this second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics, Reem Bassiouney expands the discussion of major theoretical approaches since the publication of the book’s first edition to account for new sociolinguistic theories in Arabic contexts with up-to-date examples, data, and approaches. The second edition features revised sections on diglossia, code-switching, gender discourse, language variation, and language policy in the region while adding a chapter on critical sociolinguistics—a new framework for critiquing the scholarly practices of sociolinguistics. Bassiouney also examines the impact of politics and new media on Arabic language. Arabic Sociolinguistics continues to be a uniquely valuable resource for understanding the theoretical framework of the language.Table of Contents1. Diglossia and dialect groups in the Arab world2. Code-switching3. Language variation and change4. Arabic and gender5. Language policy and politics6. Arabic critical sociolinguistics
£37.24
Bridge21 Publications, LLC Memes, Communities and Continuous Change: Chinese
Book Synopsis"Chinese Internet Vernacular," a complex of novel language varieties associated with the Chinese internet, is usually thought to consist of an increasing host of linguistic memes currently or once virally spread. Focusing on the vernacular's most prominent character - meaning change, this book attempts to account for the different dimensions and aspects that contribute to the memes' meaning and function variations, based on the quantitative and qualitative data meticulously collected by following and recording the various memes' diffusions on Chinese social media over four years. Through the discussion of four comprehensive case studies, what we experience as noticeable meaning change throughout a viral meme's diffusion may in fact be indexical to, under different circumstances, interpersonal communicative effects, collective identities, and community affiliations, as well as larger sociocultural values and ideologies, all of which can be reflexively performed, enacted, and calibrated in social media interactions. With such efforts, this book hopes to do justice to the complexities and dynamics of the "Chinese Internet Vernacular" as a holistic sociolinguistic phenomenon.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Methodological Preliminaries Chapter 3 Meaning change in CIV neologisms: The case of three 'very X very XX' phrases Chapter 4 Meaning change in virality and viral diffusion as meaning-making: The case of 'duang' Chapter 5 Enregisterment of an innovated phrase: Languaging and identities of Chinese fans of Thai TV Chapter 6 Chinese Internet vernacular (re)defined Endless spinning of reflexivity: The case of sarcastic Chapter 7 Conclusion References Appendices
£60.00
Counterpoint The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the
Book SynopsisIn this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, a journalist and activist, seeking a new way to talk about racism in America, discusses the historical origins of ethnocide in the US, while examining the personal, lived consequences of existing within an ongoing erasure.
£22.10
Les Belles Lettres Fondements Sociolinguistiques de la Traduction
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Les Belles Lettres Lqi: La Langue Quotidienne Informatisee
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Classiques Garnier Les Metropoles Francophones Europeennes
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Classiques Garnier Pour Une Linguistique de l'Intime: Habiter Des
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Brepols N.V. Spoken and Written Language: Relations Between
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Brepols N.V. Language and History in Viking Age England:
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Brepols N.V. Conceptualizing Multilingualism in Medieval
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Brepols N.V. Toward a Historical Sociolinguistic Poetics of
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Brepols N.V. Pursuing a New Order II: Late Medieval
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De Gruyter Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
Book Synopsis Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization. In the last decade, the field has expanded in various way. The current volume takes stock of current and emerging advances in the field in short academic contributions. The studies collected in this book have a usage-based approach to language variation and change, drawing on the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and are sensitive to social variation, be it cross-linguistic or language-internal. Three types of contributions are collected in this book. First, it contains theoretical overview papers on the domains that have witnessed expansion in recent years. Second, it presents novel research ideas in proof-of-concept contributions, aimed at blue-sky research and out-of-the-box linguistic analyses. Third, it showcases recent empirical studies within the field. By combining these three types of contributions, the book provides an encompassing overview of novel developments in the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.
£154.99
de Gruyter The Influence of the Lexifier
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de Gruyter Breton in Contemporary Media
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De Gruyter Personenreferenz im Dialekt
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De Gruyter Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical
Book SynopsisAn examination of the terms used in specific historical contexts to refer to those people in a society who can be categorized as being in a position of ‘strong asymmetrical dependency’ (including slavery) provides insights into the social categories and distinctions that informed asymmetrical social interactions. In a similar vein, an analysis of historical narratives that either justify or challenge dependency is conducive to revealing how dependency may be embedded in (historical) discourses and ways of thinking. The eleven contributions in the volume approach these issues from various disciplinary vantage points, including theology, global history, Ottoman history, literary studies, and legal history. The authors address a wide range of different textual sources and historical contexts – from medieval Scandinavia and the Fatimid Empire to the history of abolition in Martinique and human rights violations in contemporary society. While the authors contribute innovative insights to ongoing discussions within their disciplines, the articles were also written with a view to the endeavor of furthering Dependency Studies as a transdisciplinary approach to the study of human societies past and present.
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de Gruyter Public Attitudes Towards GenderInclusive Language
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de Gruyter Diglossic Translanguaging
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de Gruyter Studien Zur Nationalsprachlichen Entwicklung in
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de Gruyter Sprache im Sozialistischen Industriebetrieb
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de Gruyter M. M. Guchmann Der Weg Zur Deutschen
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de Gruyter Sprachliche Kommunikation Und Gesellschaft
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de Gruyter Sprachtypologie Und Sprachdenken
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de Gruyter Gesprochenes Deutsch in Der Altmark
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de Gruyter Zur Kritik Des Sprachwissenschaftlichen
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de Gruyter Soziolinguistische Und Stilistische Aspekte Des
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de Gruyter Sprachen Der Ökonomischen Leitung Und Der
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De Gruyter Nachbaren Bis Pålen
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de Gruyter Laut Und Formenbestand Der Niederdeutschen
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