What Is Sociolinguistics?

Gerard Van Herk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

262 Seiten

2012
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4051-9318-4 (ISBN)

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What is Sociolinguistics? offers a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education.

What is Sociolinguistics? is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education, all introduced with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge.
Explores the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and educationProvides useful and clear learning features including numerous innovative exercises and project ideas, spotlighted research readings, glossary terms, chapter summaries, and text boxes The Companion Website for Instructors (www.wiley.com/go/vanherkprofs) has PowerPoint slides for each chapter with suggestions for framing class discussions and exercises, further examples on concepts discussed in the book, tips on additional readings to bring in, and ready–to–go slides for class presentation. The Companion Website for Students (www.wiley.com/go/vanherk) includes links for every chapter from standard sociolinguistic tools to links designed to spark discussion relevant to each chapter, including video clips, oral histories, articles, and more.

Gerard Van Herk is a Canada Research Chair in Regional Language and Oral Text at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has researched and written on varieties of the English language and is the editor of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications (eds. with C. Mallinson and B. Childs, 2013).

Contents vii
List of Boxes xi
Research in the Spotlight xiv
Companion Website xvi
Acknowledgments xvii
1. Introduction 1
2. Language and Society 10
3. Place 25
4. Social Status 47
5. Time 60
6. Ethnicity 75
7. Gender and Identity 85
8. Style 104
9. Interaction 116
10. Multilingualism 127
11. Language Contact 136
12. Attitudes and Ideologies 148
13. Language as a Social Entity 161
14. Education 175
15. What is Sociolinguistics? 188
Glossary 197
Bibliography 213
Index 229

Reihe/Serie	LAWZ - Linguistics in the World
Verlagsort	Chicester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	186 x 243 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4051-9318-2 / 1405193182
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-9318-4 / 9781405193184
Zustand	Neuware