[PDF] Responses To Language Varieties eBook

Author : Alexei Prikhodkine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027267936

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This book is about responses to language variety — their variability, shape, and content, as well as the variable cognitive and neural pathways underlying them. The chapters explore access to, processing of, and outcomes of that diversity and complexity. Many traditions are represented: from social psychology come classic experimental methods as well as more current discourse-based analyses; anthropology is represented in indexicality, iconization, recursivity, erasure, enregisterment, and ideologies; the sociolinguistic focus on specific rather than global elements that trigger responses is highlighted. The individual chapters address a variety of questions concerning language attitude, belief, and ideology, in some cases singly, in others with a more general focus, including attempts to relate one style of research to another. If we accept the fact that individuals house great variability in the underlying cognitive structures that inform responses, it follows that no single way of eliciting and studying them will do. This book provides a tour of the emerging tools that have been productive in such investigations.

Author : Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195115236

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The author explores the implications of the phenomenon known as "codeswitching", where in given situations, different people with access to the same linguistic repertoire (or one person in various situations) will make different linguistic choices.

Author : Ralph W. Fasold
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780878402144

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Twenty-four linguists analyze natural and social differences in language form, use, and attitudes.

Author : Miriam R. Eisenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1489909001

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Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor who possesses communicative compe tence, a knowledge of language which accounts for its use in real-world con texts. Areas of variation previously relegated to idiosyncratic differences in performance have been found to be dynamic yet consistent and lend themselves to study and systematic description. Because language acquisition involves the development of communicative competence, by its very nature it incorporates variation and systematicity. Sec ond-language acquisition is similarly variable, since interlanguage is subject to the same universal and language-specific conventions. In addition, aspects of the second language have been found to be unevenly acquired and are differ entially reflected in particular contexts or settings. Yet, despite our expanding knowledge, this variability is only beginning to be treated in much of the sec ond-language acquisition literature. This volume presents the work of some researchers and methodologists who have taken on the challenge of including variation in their research designs and pedagogical recommendations. Variation is shown to be relevant to lin guistic, social, and psychological aspects of language. It is apparent in the registers and dialects of the target language and in the inter language of learners.

Author : Robert Bayley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190233745

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This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.

Author : Peter Garrett
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 2003-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783162074

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This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering a demonstration of language attitude research in one specific and important context, the English language in Wales. In addition to discussing different ways of expressing attitudes, from teenagers' and teachers' attitudes to regional and subcultural variation in attitudes, the book also considers issues such as degrees of authentic Welshness, the impact of rapid social change in Wales.

Author : Dominic Watt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2014-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748669787

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Identifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.

Author : J. K. Chambers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1119457084

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Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its unrivalled scope and depth of analysis in this interdisciplinary field Includes seven new chapters, while the remainder have undergone thorough revision and updating to incorporate the latest research and reflect numerous developments in the field Accessibly structured by theme, covering topics including data collection and evaluation, linguistic structure, language and time, language contact, language domains, and social differentiation Brings together an experienced, international editorial and contributor team to provides an unrivalled learning, teaching and reference tool for researchers and students in sociolinguistics

Author : Gaëlle Planchenault
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027258864

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What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as an 'accent'? In the 12 chapters of this volume, an international group of sociolinguists, applied linguists, anthropologists, and scholars in media studies, develop an innovative approach that we describe as the ‘pragmatics of accents’. In this volume, we present a variety of languages and go beyond the traditional structural description of accents. From ideologies in national contexts, to L2 education, to accent discrimination in the media and the workplace, this volume embraces a new perspective that focuses on the use of accents as symbolic resources, and emphasizes the importance of context in the human experience of accents.