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

In der Computervermittelten Kommunikation kreieren User multicodale Zeichensysteme, indem sie neben verbalen Auerungen z.B. auch Bilder, Emoticons und Schriftfarbe einsetzen. Facework wurde bislang hauptsachlich anhand des verbalen codes untersucht. Inwiefern bietet jedoch gerade der para- und nonverbale code relevante Informationen fur face? Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die systematische Untersuchung sowohl des verbalen als auch des para- und nonverbalen codes mit Blick auf politeness und facework. Dazu wird anhand Computervermittelter Kommunikation in spanischsprachigen...

The use of English as a global lingua franca has given rise to new challenges and approaches in our understanding of language and communication. One area where ELF (English as a lingua franca) studies, both from an empirical and theoretical orientation, have the potential for significant developments is in our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity. ELF challenges traditional assumptions concerning the purposed 'inexorable' link between a language and a culture. Due to the multitude of users and contexts of ELF communication the supposed language, culture...

New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics. Yet the city's speech has never before received a comprehensive description and analysis. In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the NY dialect region. He uses data from a variety of sources including older dialectological accounts, classic and recent variationist studies, and original research on speakers from around the dialect region. All levels of...

By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world. Drawing on a range of digital media from email to chatrooms and social media such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube Lee demonstrates how online multilingualism is closely linked to people's offline literacy practices and identities, and examines the ways in which people draw on multilingual resources in their internet participation. Bringing together central concepts in sociolinguistics and internet linguistics, the eight chapters cover key issues such...

This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework for Application. Techniques used include Conversation Analysis in combination with other methods, Genre Analysis in combination with other methods, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Contributions are loosely grouped by setting and include the following: workplace and business settings; education...

This book examines how young people at a martial arts club in an urban setting participate and interact in a recreational social community. The author relates analyses of their interactions to discussions of relevance to the sociology of sports, anthropology and education, ultimately providing an analytically nuanced contribution to the study of contemporary sociolinguistic processes and identity practices. The author explores how the young participants negotiate their place in the social order, create and maintain friendship groups and relate to different social categories using the...

Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics outlines and evaluates the major approaches and methods used in Arabic sociolinguistic research with respect to diglossia, codeswitching, language variation and attitudes and social identity.

This book:

• outlines the main research findings in these core areas and relates them to a wide range of constructs, including social context, speech communities, prestige, power, language planning, gender and religion
• examines two emerging areas in Arabic sociolinguistic research, internet-mediated communication and heritage...

• Offers the first authoritative collection exploring research strands in the emerging and fast-moving field of Spanish sociolinguistics
• Highlights the contributions that Spanish Sociolinguistics has offered to general linguistic theory
• Brings together a team of the top researchers in the field to present the very latest perspectives and discussions of key issues
• Covers a wealth of topics including: variationist...

Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book Prize

This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People's Republic of China.

Perez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and cultural ideologies linked to modernization are being institutionally (re)produced, legitimated, and inter-personally negotiated through everyday practice in the current context of Chinese educational reforms. He places special emphasis on those...