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Author : Suzanne Romaine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191607029
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in Society written by Suzanne Romaine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne Romaine provides a clear, lively, and accessible introduction to the field of sociolinguistics and emphasizes the constant interaction between society and language, discussing both traditional and recent issues including: language and social class, language and gender, language and education, and pidgins and creoles. The text shows how our linguistic choices are motivated by social factors, and how certain ways of speaking come to be vested with symbolic value and includes examples drawing on studies of cultures and languages all over the world. This new edition incorporates new material on current issues in the study of gender as well as other topics such as the linguistic dimension to the ethnic conflict in the Balkans, and the controversy over Ebonics in the United States.

Author : Christine Jourdan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139452517
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Culture, and Society written by Christine Jourdan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of speech, leading to subtle differences in how we present ourselves to others. This revealing account brings together eleven leading specialists from the fields of linguistics, anthropology, philosophy and psychology, to explore the fascinating relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. A range of major questions are discussed: How does language influence our perception of the world? How do new languages emerge? How do children learn to use language appropriately? What factors determine language choice in bi- and multilingual communities? How far does language contribute to the formation of our personalities? And finally, in what ways does language make us human? Language, Culture and Society will be essential reading for all those interested in language and its crucial role in our social lives.

Author : Christina Schäffner
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781853594144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation and Quality written by Christina Schäffner and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole basis of quality in relation to translations is considered in this well argued set of essays. The emphasis is on an honest discussion of training needs and the use of examples to illustrate the points that the contributors make.

Author : Rodney H. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498922
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Language and Society written by Rodney H. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

Author : Ofelia García
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190212896
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society written by Ofelia García and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors explore a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes, and multimodality. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the limitations of modernist positivist perspectives, replacing them with novel, up-to-date ways of theorizing and researching. [Publisher]

Author : Annabelle Mooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415576581
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Society and Power written by Annabelle Mooney and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer such questions as: How can a language reflect the status of children and older people? Do men and women talk differently? How can our use of language mark our ethnic identity? It also looks at language use in politics and the media and investigates how language affects and constructs our identities, exploring notions of correctness and attitudes towards language use. While it can be used as a stand-alone text, this edition of Language, Society and Power has also been fully cross-referenced with the new companion title: The Language, Society and Power Reader. Together these books provide the complete resource for students of English language and linguistics, media, communication, cultural studies, sociology and psychology. --Book Jacket.

Author : Linda Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134661606
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Society and Power written by Linda Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tina Hickey
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Education, and Society in a Changing World written by Tina Hickey and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses many of the issues facing language teachers, researchers and policy makers in a world where languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate and are frequently the focus for dispute and conflict.

Author : Jürgen Jaspers
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027289166
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society and Language Use written by Jürgen Jaspers and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this seventh volume underlines the mutually constitutive relation between society and language use. It highlights a number of the most prominent approaches of this relation and it draws attention to a selected number of topics that the study of language in its social context has characteristically brought to bear. Despite their theoretical and methodological differences, each of the chapters in this book assumes that it is necessary to look at society and language use as interdependent phenomena, and that by attending to microscopic linguistic phenomena one is also keeping a finger on the pulse of broader, macroscopic social tendencies that at the same time facilitate and constrain language use. The introduction provides a sketch of the intellectual antecedents of the volume’s two ‘mother disciplines’, viz., linguistics and social theory before pointing at recent common ground in the rising attention for discourse and what has come to be called ‘late-modernity’.

Author : Saravanan Gopinathan
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Society, and Education in Singapore written by Saravanan Gopinathan and published by Marshall Cavendish Academic. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art volume on the interrelationship of developments in language, society and education in Singapore moving into the 21st century.