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

Languages and Silence is an ethnography that focuses on a region of Silesia near Opole where the inhabitants speak three languages: Polish, German, and Silesian. The author spent several different extended periods of time living in a town that she calls Dobra, and she attempts to analyze the different ways that the inhabitants use the three languages and the situational, associational, political, and historical reasons they choose to speak whatever language they are speaking at any given moment.

Elizabeth R. Vann describes interpersonal situations in which a speaker uses...

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This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities, from New York to Shanghai, the authors present these cities as sociolinguistic systems in their own rights, show how they are changing, reveal differences and congruencies and what can be learned for theory. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for all in the area of...

This book focuses on what people are doing with language in urban settings around the world. In studying situated language life in fourteen cities, from New York to Shanghai, the authors present these cities as sociolinguistic systems in their own rights, show how they are changing, reveal differences and congruencies and what can be learned for theory. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for all in the area of...

In this timely work, leading theorist Alastair Pennycook turns his attention to the concept of posthumanism in applied linguistics. With an increased focus on the planet and the environment, and a reconsideration of what it means to be human, this book locates itself in compelling contemporary debates: Where do humans end and the outside world begin? How are language and thought distributed in the world? Drawing on a range of contexts and data sources, from urban multilingualism to ecolinguistic studies of animal communication, Pennycook's engaging argument for a shift in our conception of...

In this timely work, leading theorist Alastair Pennycook turns his attention to the concept of posthumanism in applied linguistics. With an increased focus on the planet and the environment, and a reconsideration of what it means to be human, this book locates itself in compelling contemporary debates: Where do humans end and the outside world begin? How are language and thought distributed in the world? Drawing on a range of contexts and data sources, from urban multilingualism to ecolinguistic studies of animal communication, Pennycook's engaging argument for a shift in our conception of...

This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region.

A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad...

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, adopting an integrated approach to diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include psycholinguistic and acquisition-oriented aspects of child and adult multilingualism such as bilingual language processing, second language acquisition, and bilingual first language acquisition; social, formal-structural, and conversational aspects of code switching; diachronic and typological aspects of contact-induced...

This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education as objects of neoliberalization and as powerful tools and sites through which ideological principles underpinning neoliberal societies and economies are (re)produced and maintained (and with that, inequality and exclusion). This book aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal...

This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education as objects of neoliberalization and as powerful tools and sites through which ideological principles underpinning neoliberal societies and economies are (re)produced and maintained (and with that, inequality and exclusion). This book aims to produce a complex understanding of how neoliberal...

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization. It is one outcome of a research project and the lived experiences which surround and influence (and were influenced by) it. The author documents how she and her research partners began studying what had drawn them to US TESOL programs, and how English was and is a symbol of power and...