Languaging class : Reflecting on the linguistic articulations of structural inequalities / edited by Claudia Ortu, Francesco Bachis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ortu, Claudia, editor.

Series:

Series in language and linguistics.

Series in Language and Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Art and Science Inc., [2023]

Summary:

This volume explores the issue of social class from the point of view of its linguistic articulations. Indeed, as Machin and Richardson (2008) stated, "discourses may be variously approached as (often simultaneously) reflecting class structures, as a site of class inequalities, as expressive of class identities or class consciousness and/or as a constituent part of more performative class action." Some of the contributions that make up the volume were presented at a conference held at Cagliari University, Italy, in 2017 and responded to the call for analyses on the role of language in reflecting, maintaining, enacting, and inculcating ideas on social class in literary and non-literary texts and discourses in any cultural or linguistic setting. This volume aspires to encourage scholars in disciplines and academic fields that have shied away from reflections on structural inequalities in favor of studies on ethnic, gender, and cultural identities in the last decades to take back on board the concept of social class and to engage with it in a novel way. The variety of approaches - ranging from the more traditional sociolinguistic one, anthropology, to literary and discourse studies - and cultural settings - with case studies coming from 3 continents - represented in the chapters show that social class is a productive and illuminating concept for trying to (re)make sense of social reproduction and change.

Contents:

Class on board! : reflecting on the linguistic articulations of structural inequalities

Social class and phonological variation : the case of T-glottaling in Cockney

Gender and social class : a variationist phonological analysis of gay language in London

"Here it's more of a get-by" : social class as the "bigger challenge" of the new Latinx diaspora

New realism, language variation, and Egyptian society

The complex articulation of class and race in a South African novel : Coconut by Kopano Matlwa

The Twitter crier : Discourse analysis of how grocery retailers target their market through microblogging

A matter of class? Environmental conflict and the vernacular politics of the commons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781648896477

1648896472

OCLC:

1369669060