Language, Society, and New Media: Sociolinguistics Today

ISBN-13: 9780367456290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 284 str.

Marcel Danesi

Opis

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach, integrating frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, to demonstrate the relationship between language, society, thought, and culture to students

Spis treści

1. Sociolinguistics  2. Language and Society  3. Variation in Geographical Space  4. Variation in Social Space  5. Language, Personality, and Identity  6. Conversation and Discourse  7. Writing and Society  8. Language, Mind and Culture  9. Language, Media, and Social Evolution  Exercises and Discussions   Appendices: A: The International Phonetic Alphabet; B: A Brief Lesson in Basic Statistics; C: Koasati Phonemes and Alphabet; D: English Vowels  Glossary

O autorze

Marcel Danesi is Full Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has authored numerous books and articles on language in use and on applications of sign theory to language and culture.