Sociolinguistics - Brossura

Spolsky, Bernard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0194372111 ISBN 13: 9780194372114

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2012

Riassunto

Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which different groups of people use language. This book provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field, making links with related disciplines such as history, politics, and gender studies.

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Descrizione del libro

Lengua extranjera: inglés.Inglés. Material Complementario.

Contenuti

• Preface
• SECTION 1
• Survey
• 1 The social study of language:
• The scope of enquiry
• Complementary approaches
• The methods of enquiry
• What are the data?
• The sociolinguist at work
• The approach in this book
• 2 The ethnography of speaking and the structure of conversation:
• The ethnography of speaking
• The structure of conversations
• Politeness and politeness formulas
• Terms of address
• 3 Locating variations in speech:
• Speech communities and repertoires
• Dialect
• 4 Styles, gender, and social class:
• Styles
• Specialized varieties or registers and domains
• Slang and solidarity
• Language and gender
• Social stratification
• Accommodation and audience design
• 5 Bilinguals and bilingualism:
• Language socialization
• The description of bilingualism
• Bilingual competence
• Code switching and code mixing
• 6 Societal multilingualism:
• Multilingualism
• Language loyalty and reversing language shift
• Language and ethnic identity
• Language and politics
• Language rights
• Pidgins and creoles
• Diglossia
• 7 Applied sociolinguistics:
• Language policy and language planning
• Status planning
• Corpus planning
• Normativism and prescriptivism
• Language acquisition planning or language education policy
• Language diffusion policy or linguistic imperialism
• The spread of English - imperialism or hegemony?
• Conclusions
• SECTION 2
• Readings
• SECTION 3
• References
• SECTION 4
• Glossary

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0194372111
• ISBN 13: 9780194372114
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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