Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Sociolinguistics

Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping. This book describes second language learners' development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development...

This book, addressed to experienced and novice language educators, provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the field and its relevance to language education around the world. Topics covered include nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, gender and ethnicity, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, and ideologies and power. Whether considering the role of English as an international language or innovative initiatives in Indigenous language...

Am Beispiel der "Nicht-finiten Pradikationskonstruktion" (z.B. "Ich und aufgeben?") wird der Versuch unternommen, ausgehend von den alltagssprachlichen Formen und Funktionen einer grammatischen Konstruktion zu einem Modell ihrer Reprasentation im Sprachgebrauchswissen zu gelangen. Die Hauptdatengrundlage der Untersuchung bilden alltagssprachliche Beispiele aus dem Usenet und aus Foren. Im Anschluss an die Diskussion des Forschungsstands werden in Auseinandersetzung mit kognitions- und interaktionslinguistischen, aber auch zeichentheoretischen Positionen die theoretischen und...

In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster ... a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of "uplifting," "essential," "proper" or even "better" means of communication than any other language. Unfortunately, its relentless global outreach is taking place at the direct expense, and the active denigration, of local and regional languages - not to mention individual identities.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists,...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. A thorough analysis of the sources and implications of social "disadvantage" is presented first, since the nonstandard dialects that children bring with them to school - and the unfavourable perceptions of these dialects - have traditionally given rise to educational difficulties. The persistence of these perceptions is particularly highlighted. More general issues surrounding the range and implications of language attitudes are dealt with, as is the important "test case" of Black English. The book also...

This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, from hip-hop in the US to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book forcefully argues that a critique of common linguistic and metalinguistic suppositions is not only a conceptual but also a sociopolitical necessity. Just as many notions of language are highly suspect, so too are many related concepts premised on a notion of discrete languages, such as language rights, mother tongues,...

Should we not apply the same moral standards to language as we do to behaviour? Should we not demand fair treatment in how others speak to us or include us in conversations?

In The Moral Parameters of Good Talk, Ayim contends it is ludicrous to exempt language from the moral standards we apply to other behaviours. Language, like any other behaviour, is capable of creating harm or good -- we should strive to talk in morally appropriate ways. While freedom of expression is a right we strive for in a democratic society, it is acceptable only when it is conducive to...

Die Akten des 25. Kongresses der Societe de Linguistique Romane (Innsbruck 2007) enthalten die fur den Druck angenommenen Beitrage aus den Bereichen: Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachkontakt, Translation, Phonetik / Phonologie, Morphologie / Syntax, Lexikologie / Wortbildung, Semantik, Phraseologie, Onomastik, Sprachnormierung, Soziolinguistik, gesprochene / geschriebene Sprache, Pragmatik / Diskursanalyse, Textphilologie / diachrone Lexikographie. Gesondert enthalten sie ferner die Beitrage zum Rumanischen, zum Ratoromanischen, zum Sardischen, zum Franzosischen Kanadas und der USA sowie zu den...

This timely book brings together research on the features and evolution of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English, approached from a variety of innovative multilingual frameworks that focus on the emergence of mother tongue speakers. The authors illustrate how language and population contact, history (colonialism), multilingualism, translation, and indigenization have contributed to shaping the norms of postcolonial Englishes and Pidgins. Employing naturalistic data, the volume provides a new fascinating perspective that better situates and supplements existing research in the fields...

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's...

Die Studie verfolgt das Ziel, das geschriebene Alltagsdeutsch in der neueren Sprachgeschichte als sprachliche Normallage zu beschreiben, deren Entwicklungen die Tendenzen der Gegenwartssprache erst verstehbar machen. Es wird erstmals der Versuch unternommen, auf breiter Materialbasis fur das gesamte deutsche Sprachgebiet Gebrauchsnormen der Schriftsprache routinierter wie unroutinierter Schreiberinnen und Schreiber zu ermitteln. Grundlage der sprachlichen Analysen sind Texte privater Auswandererkorrespondenz, ein bislang kaum beachteter Quellentyp, der an Umfang, Nahe zur konzeptionellen...