Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life

ISBN-13: 9781108491891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 326 str.

Susan Gal; Judith T. Irvine

Opis

An important study of how signs and sign relations create social and linguistic differences - and unities.

Recenzje

'… the book walks the reader through the semiotic experience of everyday life, making it possible to see meaning-making as it happens, a quality that makes it particularly valuable for students.' Cambridge University Press

Spis treści

Prologue: questions and exhibits; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Ethnography: 1. Wolof in Senegal; 2. German-Hungarians in Hungary; Part II. Semiotics: 3. Ingredients: signs, conjectures, perspectives; 4. Comparison: the semiotics of differentiation; 5. Dynamics of change in differentiation; Part III. Sites: 6. Situating ideological work; 7. Among and between sites; 8. Scales and scale-making: connecting sites; Part IV. Pasts: 9. Library to field: ideologies in nineteenth-century linguistic research; Coda: avenues of inquiry.