Reader in Czech sociolinguistics / edited by Jan Chloupek, Jiří Nekvapil et al.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chloupek, Jan.

Nekvapil, Jiří.

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 23.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Czechoslovakia.

Czech language--Variation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987, c1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as between the two world wars in the activity of the Prague Linguistic School, and is influenced in a positive way also by a contemporary philosophico-ideological climate. The contents of the present volume include contributions of prominent Czech linguists, especially research workers from academic an

Contents:

READER IN CZECH SOCIOLINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Introduction: On Czech Linguistics and Sociolinguistics; Notes; References; On the Socially Conditioned Nature of Language; Notes; The Relationship between the Communicative Sphere and Language Variety in the Slavonic Languages; Notes; References; Basic Types of Norm in Language Communication; References; On the Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Notion of Functional Style; References; The Changing Dichotomy between Informal and Formal Utterance; Notes

On the Shaping of Everyday Speech in Moravian TownsNotes; Some Sociolinguistic Aspects of Linguistic Geography; Notes; References; Literary Languages in Contact; Notes; References; The Influence of Social Roles of Participants on Group and Interpersonal Verbal Communication; 1. Communicative situation; 2. Social roles; 3. Influence of participants' social roles on verbal communication; 3.1. Language indicators of the mutual influencing of participants in the verbal communication of a small group (at operative meetings)

3.2. Language indicators of the mutual influencing of participants in an interpersonal verbal communicationNotes; References; On the Communicative Approach to the Study of Slang; 1. The study of slang in the ČSSR: its past and present; 2. On the conception of slang in the ČSSR; 3. Typology of approaches to the investigation of slang; 4. An individual as the knower and user of several types of slang; 5. Slang in ontogenesis.Obligatory and facultative types of slang and their different influence on the core of national language; 6. Some prospects; Notes; References

Values and Attitudes in Language StandardizationNotes; References; The Language Treatment as an Aspect of Language Culture; Notes; References; Language Planning Implications in a Socialist Society; References; Some Remarks on Personal Pronouns in the Addressing Function; Notes; References; On Historical Sociolinguistics; Notes; Language Texts and Language Informants; Notes; References; Linguistics - Sociology; References; List of Authors

Notes:

Translated from Czech.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-32842-9

9786613328427

90-272-7892-X

OCLC:

654266714