How We Talk about Language: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics

ISBN-13: 9781108725965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str.

Betsy Rymes

Opis

Drawing on examples of conversation, social media and daily news, Rymes illustrates how knowledge about language and its social value spreads through everyday language debates. A lively account of how we talk about language, it will be an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

Recenzje

'This is an extremely useful call to think new and to try to go to the roots of how to democratise our understandings of how we talk about language from a participatory, dialoguing and non-authoritative sociolinguistics perspective. Indeed, an invitation worth considering, for anyone to become not only a citizen but a citizen sociolinguist actor.' Maria Sabaté-Dalmau, Language in Society

Spis treści

Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its Study; 1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise; 2. Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language; 3. Doing citizen sociolinguistics: the medium is the method; 4. Fomenting arrest and wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops; 5. Citizen sociolinguistics and narrative; 6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics; Conclusion: why we must talk about language.