Society and language use / edited by Jürgen Jaspers, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaspers, Jürgen.

Verschueren, Jef.

Östman, Jan-Ola.

Series:

Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 7.

Handbook of pragmatics highlights, 1877-654X ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Language and languages.

Social interaction.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

xii, 324 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The simplest and yet most important contribution of sociolinguistics [and similar disciplines willing to go under that flag] to social scientific knowledge is its insistence on recognizing the considerable variation in speech that exists within even the most homogeneous of societies. The second important contribution is the insistence that this variation is neither trivial nor a pale reflection of 'real' language, but that it is systematic and that the systematicity of linguistic variation is an imperative object of study in itself. Having recognized that different people talk differently, and that the same people talk differently at different times, a central problem of sociolinguistics is - or ought to be - to understand why people talk the way they do. It then becomes clear that the research questions of sociolinguistics are preeminently social questions." (Woolard 1985: 738).

Contents:

Society and Language Use

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction - Society and language use

1. Linguistic antecedents

2. Antecedents in social theory

3. Late modern trends and issues

References

Accommodation theory

1. Overview

2. Speech accommodation theory

3. Conceptual developments

4. The accommodation model: Predictive or interpretive?

5. Discourse attuning

Agency and language

1. Practice theory

2. Anthropological contributions to practice theory

3. Intentionality

4. The grammatical encoding of agency

5. Talk about agency - Meta-agentive discourse

6. Language in action, agency in language

Authority

1. Introduction

2. Authority and the self

3. Authority in each other

4. Authority in the world

5. Authority in (and through) God

6. Authority and gender

7. Authority in language

8. Authority

Bilingualism and multilingualism

Introduction

2. Four approaches to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism

2.1 Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to multilingualism

2.2 Social psychological approaches

2.3 Linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches

2.4 Sociological and anthropological approaches

3. Conclusion

Code-switching

2. Terminological and methodological issues

3. Early studies

4. The meaning of code-switching

4.1 The politics of code-switching

4.2 Code-switching in interaction

5. Grammatical constraints on code-switching

6. Future directions in code-switching research

Cognitive sociology

1. Historical overview

2. The interrelation of interactional sense-making processes and social organization

2.1 Interaction

2.2 Discourse

2.3 Cognition.

2.4 Organizational activities and materials

3. Key concepts

3.1 Interpretive procedures

3.2 Expertise

3.3 Social organization

3.4 Inequality and stratification

3.5 Organizational constraints

4. Methodology

5. A sample analysis

Contact

1. Language contact: Causes, processes and outcomes

2. Theoretical and methodological approaches to language contact

3. The pragmatics of language contact

4. Conclusion

Correlational sociolinguistics

2. Concepts of linguistic variation

2.1 Tradition and innovation

2.2 Methodology

2.3 Description

2.4 Explanation

2.5 Theory

2.6 Application

3. Basic lines of argumentation: The corpus

4. Rules: How instances of usage are described

5. Language change: The perspective of explanations

6. Outlook

Gender

1. Language and gender

2. Pragmatic aspects of gender

3. The prehistory of language and gender research

4. The history of language and gender research

4.1 The 1970s

4.2 The 1980s

4.3 The 1990s

4.4 The 2000s: Some concluding remarks

Interactional sociolinguistics

1. Background

2. Contributions

3. Program

Language dominance and minorization

2. Linguistic hierarchy and nation-building

2.1 Language and nationalism

2.2 Official languages

2.3 Other dominant language ideologies

3. Minorization

3.1 International declarations of minority language rights

Language ideologies - Evolving perspectives

2. The historical emergence of language ideologies

3. Some key concepts

4. Recent developments

5. Perspectives for future research

Language rights.

1. Introduction: Language rights, linguistic human rights, and (linguistic) assimilation or integration

2. Basic concepts, continua and dichotomies

2.1 Who or what can have rights?

2.2 Individual versus collective rights

2.2.1 Individual rights

2.2.2 Collective rights

2.2.3 What is a minority?

2.3 Negative versus positive rights

2.4 Personal versus territorial rights

2.5 Rights in 'hard law' versus 'soft law'

2.6 Expressive versus instrumental rights

2.7 LHR hierarchies

3. LHRs in education

3.1 Are there any binding LHRs in education?

3.2 Linguistic genocide

4. To conclude

Marxist linguistics

2. Marr vs. Stalin

3. Recent trends

4. Gramsci

5. Vološinov

6. Pêcheux

7. Marxist linguistics today

'Other' representation

1. On representation

2. On 'the other'

3. Discourse strategies in representations of 'the other'

3.1 Homogenisation

3.2 Pejoration

3.3 Suppression and silencing

3.4 Displaying 'liberalism'

3.5 Subverting tolerance

4. Beyond minoritisation

Social institutions

2. The social constructivist approach to 'social institutions'

3. Social reproduction and the notion of symbolic resource

4. The discourse of social control: The reproduction of social institutions

5. Family discourse as a form of institutional discourse

6. Conclusion

Speech community

1. Community speech and speech community: Pragmatic vs. distributional perspectives

2. Speech community' at the interface of 'tradition and modernity'

3. Late modern discourse, language and community

4. Communities of practice

5. Community' as a semiotic sign

6. Language ideologies and the production of community.

7. From the 'linguistics of community' to a 'linguistics of contact'

8. Community and discourse in the Information Age

9. Conclusion

Symbolic interactionism

Index

The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612775109

9781282775107

1282775103

9789027289162

9027289166

OCLC:

673658198