Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Author : Markus Rheindorf
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 178892469X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control written by Markus Rheindorf and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a ‘refugee crisis’ – this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies, set against the background of the rise of nationalist and populist movements. The voices of migrants and refugees are rarely heard in this context: usually, they are debated about, summarized and reported but their agency is denied. Each contribution to this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants.

Author : Douglas Biber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359321
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register written by Douglas Biber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phenomena; it includes empirical analyses and linguistic descriptions, as well as explanations for existing patterns of variation and proposals for theoretical frameworks. The book treats languages in obsolescence and in their youth; it examines registers from languages from around the globe; and it offers several of the most complete studies of registers and register variation published to date, adopting both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Author : Alexandra Jaffe
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195331648
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stance written by Alexandra Jaffe and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-is central to communication. This collected volume explores stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, looking at how speakers use language to position themselves and others and exploring how speakers and writers make use of and sometimes transform the meaning of sociolinguistic variables in their acts of stance.

Author : Charles A. Ferguson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195357701
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Perspectives written by Charles A. Ferguson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.

Author : Jenny Cheshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521395656
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Around the World written by Jenny Cheshire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social development of English as a world language emerges from a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of it as well as the gaps in understanding which future research can remedy.

Author : Gerald Stell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110383942
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives written by Gerald Stell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by social factors in the occurrence, forms, and outcomes of code-switching. The contributions in this volume are divided into three parts: “code-switching between cognition and socio-pragmatics”, “multilingual interaction and identity”, and “code-switching and social structure”. The case studies represent contact settings on five continents and feature languages with diverse linguistic affiliations. They are predictive and descriptive in their research goals and rely on experimental or naturalistic data. But they share the common goal of seeking to explain how social structures, ideologies, and identity impact on the grammatical and conversational features of code-switching and language mixing, and on the emergence of mixed languages. Given its scope, this volume is a significant addition to the empirical and theoretical foundations of the study of code-switching. It is also of relevance to the general debate on the inter-relationships between language and society.

Author : J. K. Chambers
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631183266
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Theory written by J. K. Chambers and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a critical synthesis of sociolinguistics, centring on the study of language variation and change. It opens with a discussion of the linguistic variable and its historical methodology and theoretical significance

Author : Gabriele Kasper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317894618
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communication Strategies written by Gabriele Kasper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the topic of communication strategies, the ways in which people seek to express themselves or understand what someone else is saying or writing. Typically, the term has referred to the strategies that non-native speakers use to address the linguistic and pragmatic problems encountered in interactions with native and non-native speakers of the language in question. Studies adopting a psycholinguistic perspective are well represented and updated in this volume. Other chapters re-examine communication strategies from a sociolinguistic perspective, exploring the strategies non-native speakers and their conversational partners use to create shared meanings in ongoing discourse. These studies reveal how communication strategies can serve to construct participants' identities and social relationships. Finally, the book incorporates a number of chapters which cover strategy-like behaviour in other related areas, such as language pathology, child bilingualism, normal native adult interaction, and mother tongue education. These studies add fresh dimensions to the study of communication strategies, showing how the concept can usefully be extended beyond the realm of second language acquisition and use, and pointing out the commonalities in many domains of language behaviour.

Author : Anna De Fina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502581
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Narrative written by Anna De Fina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The socially minded linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this dynamic field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and identities, narrative language, power and ideologies. It also offers an overview of a wide range of methodologies, analytical modes and perspectives on narrative from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, to linguistic anthropology and ethnography of communication. The discussion engages with studies of narrative in multiple situational and cultural settings, from informal-intimate to institutional. It also demonstrates how recent trends in narrative analysis, such as small stories research, positioning analysis and sociocultural orientations, have contributed to a new paradigm that approaches narratives not simply as texts, but rather as complex communicative practices intimately linked with the production of social life.

Author : Christina Bratt Paulston
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853591464
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education written by Christina Bratt Paulston and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of articles on ethnic bilingualism and bilingual education from a sociolinguistic perspective. It covers theoretical paradigms (primarily structural-functionalism and group conflict theory and the problem formulations in BE typical of the paradigms), practical research methodology and a number of exemplificatory case studies.