The guidebook to sociolinguistics / Allan Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Allan, 1947-

Series:

Introducing Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK : Wiley, c2013.

Summary:

The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics presents a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and terms of sociolinguistics, and of the goals, methods, and findings of sociolinguistic research. Introduces readers to the methodology and skills of doing hands-on research in this fieldFeatures chapter-by-chapter classic and contemporary case studies, exercises, and examples to enhance comprehensionOffers wide-ranging coverage of topics across sociolinguistics. It begins with multilingualism, and moves on through language choice and variation to style and iden

Contents:

The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1 What Are Sociolinguistics?; 1.1 What is language?; 1.2 What is a language?; Naming languages; 1.3 What then are sociolinguistics?; Sociology of language; Critical-constructivist sociolinguistics; Ethnographic-interactional sociolinguistics; Variationist sociolinguistics; 1.4 Neighbouring and overlapping fields; 1.5 A guide to the guidebook; The book's trajectory; General reading; Doing sociolinguistics; References; 2 A Profusion of Languages; 2.1 Being multilingual; Who is bilingual?

How multilingualism arisesThe values of multilingualism; 2.2 Six dimensions of bilingualism; 1: Individual versus social; 2: Productive versus receptive; 3: Primary versus secondary; 4: Additive versus subtractive; 5: Stable versus dynamic; 6: Indigenous versus immigrant; 2.3 Approaches to multilingualism; The sociology of language; Ethnolinguistic vitality; Critical/constructivist approaches; 2.4 Language surveys and censuses; 2.5 The case of Canada; Controversy over questions; Comparing French and English; Language transfer; The place of Québec; The uses of censuses

2.6 Research activity: A bilingual survey2.7 Summary; 2.8 Further reading; References; 3 Language Shift and Maintenance; 3.1 Introducing language contact; 3.2 Language functions; Official and national languages; Malawi; 3.3 Shifting languages; Low status; Unfavourable demographics; Institutional opposition; 3.4 Maintaining and revitalizing languages; Reversing language shift; Linguistic human rights; 3.5 The case for Māori; The Treaty, te reo and television; Māori revitalized?; 3.6 Research activity doing a project (1) - the setup; Step 1: Aims and rationale; Step 2: Literature review

Step 3: Design and method3.7 Summary; 3.8 Further reading; References; 4 Language Birth and Death; 4.1 Pidgins and creoles; Jargons; Pidgins; Creoles; Attempting definitions; 4.2 Where do pidgins and creoles come from?; Comparing theories; 4.3 The creole continuum; 4.4 Language danger and death; Counting languages in danger; Discourses of language death; Processes of language death; 4.5 The microlinguistics of dying languages; 4.6 The cases of Gaelic and Melanesian; East Sutherland Gaelic in Scotland; Creoles of the Pacific; 4.7 Research activity the making of Melanesian Pidgin; 4.8 Summary

4.9 Further readingReferences; 5 Codes and Choices; 5.1 Varieties, codes and repertoires; 5.2 The speech community; 5.3 Diglossia; Classic diglossia; Fishman and Fasold extend diglossia; Diglossia: caveats and critiques; 5.4 Code switching; 5.5 The sociolinguistics of code switching; Gumperz: interactional code switching; Myers-Scotton: the Markedness Model; Auer: code switching as practice; 5.6 The case of Oberwart; 'Peasant men can't get wives'; Language choice in Oberwart-Felsöör; 5.7 Research activity observation versus self-report; 5.8 Summary; 5.9 Further reading; References

6 Situated Language

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-394-26087-3

1-118-59397-9

1-118-59396-0

OCLC:

854521434