Social Theory And Language

Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000142736
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and Language written by Glyn Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical developments underpinning our present understandings of the relationship between language and the social by integrating the study of language with key strands of sociological theory.// The book posits that theory conditions how objects are constructed and in turn the meanings allocated to them and explores the implications for the relationship between language and the social. The volume traces this relationship from its foundations in the work of Enlightenment philosophers, in which sociology and linguistics emerged as coherent disciplines. Taking this work as a point of departure, the book examines the unfolding of the interplay between language and the social across developments in sociological theory in subsequent eras, encompassing such strands as Marxism, functionalism, interactionism, anti-foundationalism, poststructuralism, critical theory, and critical realism. A final chapter turns its eye toward contemporary sociolinguistics and its treatment of different sociological perspectives and future directions for its continued development. // Reflecting on trajectories in sociological theory toward informing our understanding of the relationship between language and the social today, this book will be key reading for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, and those working in sociology and geography with an interest in language issues.

Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881451
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Social Theory written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including- - social motivations for language variation and change - language, power and authority - language and ageing - language, race and class - language planning In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociolinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistics to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reasessment of the place sociolinguistics occupies in the social sciences generally.

Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881443
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Social Theory written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory. The book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including- - social motivations for language variation and change - language, power and authority - language and ageing - language, race and class - language planning In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociolinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistics to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reasessment of the place sociolinguistics occupies in the social sciences generally.

Author : Marek Korczynski
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191558133
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory at Work written by Marek Korczynski and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work is fundamental to human society and modern organizations, and consequently has been central to the thinking of major social theorists and social science disciplines. This book offers a 'one-stop-shop' guide to classical and contemporary perspectvies of work written by leading international experts. Schools covered include: Weberian, Marxian, Durkheimian, feminist, neo-classical economics, institutional economics, ethics, Foucauldian, postmodernist, organizational sociology and economic sociology. Each chapter traces the origins of the theoretical school, reviews seminal contributions,and considers major criticisms of the approach. In addition, the book features a section on key aspects of work - professions, technology, identity and globalisation - to which these theories have been applied. The book makes a major contribution in a number of ways: · Provides systematic coverage of major social and economic theories and the way they aid our understanding of work; · Includes a section of chapters that consider, in an applied way, how social theories have helped the analysis of key substantive areas of work; · Includes contributions from leading academics from both Europe and the USA; · Each chapter can be read as free-standing summary of a particular school of theoretical approach; · In addition, the introductory and concluding chapters examine themes cross-cutting the other chapters in the book. It is an essential text for academics and advanced students concerned with the sociology of work, management, and organization studies.

Author : Timothy Jay
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027221863
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Curse written by Timothy Jay and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and unites them to explain and describe the psychological, neurological, cultural and linguistic factors that underlie this phenomenon.

Author : Frederick Erickson
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745624716
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talk and Social Theory written by Frederick Erickson and published by Polity. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. introduces the study of 'talk' linked to social theory; develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk; the use of everyday examples - a family dinner table, a school classroom, an academic advising session in an community college - enhances the book’s appeal to a non-specialist as well as a specialist audience; reviews the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in social theory and in the sociolinguistic study of talk.

Author : Jose Lopez
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society and Its Metaphors written by Jose Lopez and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both classical and contemporary social theorists have created a range of frameworks to formulate and develop concepts of social structure. Focusing on the work of the key theorists, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Louis Althusser, Society and its Metaphors maps the linguistic basis of different theories of social structure.

Author : Heine Anderson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631212881
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical and Modern Social Theory written by Heine Anderson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-09-13 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical and Modern Social Theory is comprehensive introduction to the field, covering a wide historical range of thinkers, from the classical to the postmodernist, as well as key themes in social theory and a guide to the major debates. Designed for students with little or no background in social theory, this single volume covering both classic and contemporary theory introduces the basic concepts at the center of social theory in accessible language and provides readers with a useful reference source to the field.

Author : Barry Sandywell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317651324
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry (RLE Social Theory) written by Barry Sandywell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work of social theory and philosophy which seeks to make the constitution of social theory a ‘social’ activity. It is essentially a collaborative text, by five authors, committed to a re-awakening of some of the forgotten dimensions of social theorizing. The collaborative work was originally occasioned by an attempt to analyse the notion of social stratification and its treatment in the sociological tradition. The authors’ main concern here is with the nature of social theorizing, and in particular the ‘difference’ between Self and Other, being and beings, Language and Speech. The papers in the book focus on themes that are fundamental to the sense of inquiry and tradition which they are concerned to display. The themes discussed include speech, Language, Identity, Difference, Critical Tradition, Community, Metaphor, Dialectics, Observing and Reading.

Author : Pertti Alasuutari
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761951650
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Theory and Human Reality written by Pertti Alasuutari and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gets to the heart of what the social sciences really know about the elusive and contradictory object of research: human reality.