Why do linguistics? : reflective linguistics and the study of language / Fiona English and Tim Marr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

English, Fiona, author.

Marr, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Study and teaching.

Linguistics.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is about noticing. It is about encouraging readers to pay attention to the language that surrounds them. The book addresses fundamental linguistic questions such as: Where do people's beliefs about language come from? Who decides what language we should speak? How do we choose the best way to express what we mean? It introduces a set of practical tools for language analysis and, using examples of authentic communicative activity including overheard conversations, Facebook posts and public announcements, shows how this kind of analysis works and what it can tell us about social interaction. Exploring language and language use from a social, intercultural and multilingual perspective, the authors demonstrate the relevance of linguistics in understanding day-to-day interaction. This book will help readers not only to become informed, active observers of language for its own sake, but also to be able to take on and challenge some of the misconceptions, assumptions and prejudices that so often underlie public discussion of language issues.

Contents:

pt. ONE Reflective linguistics

Introduction to Part I

1. About noticing: Becoming a linguistic ethnographer

2. About correctness: What is 'good' language?

3. About belonging: How does language enact community?

4. About diversity

how do societies organize language?

5. About difference: Do all languages work the same way?

pt. TWO The study of language

Introduction to Part II

6. Essential linguistic tools

7.A framework for analysis

8. Speaking and spokenness

9. Writing and writtenness

10. Choosing our words

pt. THREE Why do linguistics?

Introduction to Part III

11. Translanguaging: When the mixed code is the code

12. Myths and moral panics? Linguistics and the public domain

13. The subject that isn't a subject: Language at school

14.Communicating at the sharp edge: Linguistics and the Workplace

15. So why do linguistics?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781441166098

1441166092

9781472593597

1472593596

9781441123091

1441123091

9781441110831

1441110836

OCLC:

1201426700