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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,...

Nicht allein Sprachwissenschaftler, auch Alltagssprecher tun mehr als sich der Sprache blo zu bedienen. Sie denken uber sprachliche Fragen nach, unterhalten sich untereinander uber sprachliche Themen und hegen mitunter dezidierte Vorstellungen uber Sprache und Sprachliches. Die vorliegende Arbeit will durch drei unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen Genaueres uber diese bislang nur sparlich erforschten sprachbezogenen Ansichten und Wissensbestande innerhalb der Alltagswelt in Erfahrung bringen. Ausgangspunkt hierfur sind die Ansatze zur Erforschung des Alltags, die von Alfred Schutz und...

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,...

In this intriguing book, renowned sociolinguistics experts explore the importance of discourse analysis, a process that examines patterns of language to understand how users build cooperative understanding in dialogues. It presents discourse analyses of sign languages native to Bali, Italy, England, and the United States.

Studies of internal context review the use of space in ASL to discuss space, how space in BSL is used to package complex narrative tasks, how signers choose linguistic tools to structure storytelling, and how affect, emphasis, and comment are added in text telephone...

A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide range of key topics including:

• international politics
• colonial history
• critical pedagogy
• postcolonial...

Die juristische Textarbeit im Kontext der Gesetzgebung ist aus rechtslinguistischer Perspektive ein bislang unbearbeitetes Forschungsfeld. Hier setzt die vorliegende Studie an: Am Beispiel der Norm(text)genese der sog. "Online-Durchsuchung" arbeitet sie empirisch die vielfaltigen diskursiven Verknupfungen und handlungsleitenden Konzepte der verschiedenen Akteure heraus. Berucksichtigt werden hierfur uber 1000 Texte aus den Kommunikationsbereichen der Legislative, Exekutive, Judikative, Rechtswissenschaft und der Medien. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich die Genese rechtlicher Normen als semantischer...

For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. In this bold and provocative study, linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows how the evolution of different language forms--that is, different grammar--reflects how language is influenced by human societies and experiences, and how it expresses their great variety....

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia.

The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be...

Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume...

Deeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ("the language of slaves") still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the structures of thought and feeling they left behind permanently affected Western culture. The Vulgar Tongue explores the history of European vernacularity through more than a dozen studies of language situations from twelfth-century England and France to twentieth-century India and North America, and from the building of nations,...