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

Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts, adapts and incorporates new innovations and technologies into social practice and cultural processes is illuminated - from first mission contact and the introduction of literacy in the 1930s to youth media practices today. This book examines social, cultural and linguistic practices and addresses the implications for...

Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute definitions hold very little water, and where true insight can only emerge when we properly appreciate - from a nuanced, multi-disciplinary perspective - the crucial distinction between the producer's perspective and the consumer's perspective. Theories that afford us a critical appreciation of a creative...

The graphic design of texts has become a linguistic object in its own right. To date, however, it has rarely been considered from a sociolinguistic perspective. The present volume attempts to fill this gap by offering the first comprehensive sociolinguistic theory of visual communication. It shows how "meaning" is generated through graphic variation, based on collective communicative knowledge and social attribution processes.

The Dialects of English series provides concise, accessible, authoritative and up-to-date documentation for varieties of English, including English-based pidgins and creoles, from all over the English-speaking world. Written by experts who have conducted first-hand research, the volumes are the most obvious starting point for readers who would like to know more about a particular regional, urban or ethnic variety. The volumes follow a common structure, covering the context in which one clearly defined variety of English (or a number of closely related varieties) has been established as...

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 textbook is the only one of its kind to introduce the study of Canadian English in the context of basic concepts of linguistics and sociolinguistics. The book provides foundational information on linguistic principles and on the different branches of sociolinguistics, ranging from the large-scale 'macro' study of language usage (the sociology of language, dialect surveys) to the 'micro' study of language use (sociophonetics, sociolinguistic variation and change). Each chapter highlights the different ways of collecting and analyzing data, including census data and historical texts,...

Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Israeli-Palestinian contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, and between structure and agency.

These contexts provide the setting for power relations between Israelis and Palestinians which give rise to a variety of practices of borrowing. Among these practices is the borrowing of Hebrew words and phrases for use in the Palestinians Arabic speech. The use of Hebrew demarcates in-groups, signals aspirations to a modern...

Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects -- complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and its people. Talking Appalachian examines these distinctive speech varieties and emphasizes their role in expressing local history and promoting a...

Die Schriften des Instituts fur Deutsche Sprache (SIDS) werden vom IDS in Mannheim herausgegeben. Das IDS ist eine der bedeutendsten Forschungsinstitutionen fur die Erforschung und Dokumentation der deutschen Sprache in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. In der renommierten Schriftenreihe erscheinen die Ergebnisse der Forschungsprojekte des IDS. Die Serie umfasst hochwertige Handbucher und grundlegende Monographien zu allen Bereichen der Grammatik, Pragmatik, Lexik und Morphologie des Deutschen. Sie ist eine Standardreihe der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft.

Die Schriften des Instituts fur Deutsche Sprache (SIDS) werden vom IDS in Mannheim herausgegeben. Das IDS ist eine der bedeutendsten Forschungsinstitutionen fur die Erforschung und Dokumentation der deutschen Sprache in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. In der renommierten Schriftenreihe erscheinen die Ergebnisse der Forschungsprojekte des IDS. Die Serie umfasst hochwertige Handbucher und grundlegende Monographien zu allen Bereichen der Grammatik, Pragmatik, Lexik und Morphologie des Deutschen. Sie ist eine Standardreihe der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft.