Synopses & Reviews
This reader brings together a variety of original work ranging from explorations in dialect variation to language attitudes and stereotyping, multilingualism and face-to-face interaction. The second edition includes 25 new readings, balancing "classic" and new texts, a new section on Language, Gender and Sexuality, and a comprehensive introduction.
Synopsis
This indispensable volume complements the original Sociolinguistics Reader and brings together many of the discipline's most influential authors and texts. Including important new approaches to language and gender, social change and multilingualism, the editors point to key themes, debates and shifts within modern Sociolinguistics.
Synopsis
Fully updated and expanded for the second edition, this core textbook provides rigorous coverage of the key themes and debates at the cutting edge of sociolinguistics research and brings together many of the most influential scholars in the field. Comprising 6 distinctive parts and almost 50 individual chapters, it introduces students to a wealth of issues in sociolinguistics, including refashioning linguistic identities, code-switching, language rights and the social functions of small talk. Chapters are richly illustrated with examples and informed by the latest scholarly debates.
This is an essential companion for all undergraduates and postgraduates involved in the study of sociolinguistics. It will be an ideal resource for lecturers teaching modules on topics such as language variation, language and gender, language attitudes and multilingualism.
New to this Edition:
- Includes 25 new readings
- Features a new section on language, gender and sexuality
Synopsis
This reader brings together a variety of original work ranging from explorations in dialect variation to language attitudes and stereotyping, multilingualism and face-to-face interaction. The second edition includes 25 new readings, balancing "classic" and new texts, a new section on Language, Gender and Sexuality, and a comprehensive introduction.
Synopsis
This reader brings together much original work in sociolinguistics, ranging from fundamental theoretical statements and methodological articles, to classic explorations in dialect and style variation, language attitudes and stereotyping, gender and sexuality, multilingualism, face-to-face interaction and ethnography of communication. The contributors are eminent sociolinguists acclaimed internationally as pioneers and leading authorities in the field. This textbook is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of sociolinguistics and neighboring disciplines.
The second edition includes 25 new readings providing a better balance between 'classic' and new texts, a new section on Language, Gender and Sexuality, and a comprehensive new introduction. This outlines the main sub-fields of this dynamic and changing field and the links between them and addresses key research questions, such as language and globalization, shifts in the conception of the speech community and new methodological priorities.
About the Author
NIKOLAS COUPLAND is Professor and was Director of the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University from its creation until 2002. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney.
ADAM JAWORSKI is Reader at the Cardiff Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. He was formerly Lecturer at the Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan and the Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College. He has also taught at Gainesville, Florida, Washington, D. C., Bern and Auckland.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Social Worlds through Language--N Coupland and A Jaworski * PART I: SOCIOLINGUISTICS: ORIGINS AND APPROACHES * Editorial Introduction to Part I * On Communicative Competence-- D.Hymes * Objectivity and Commitment in Linguistic Science--W.Labov * The Sociology of Language--J.Fishman * Language in a Social Perspective--M.Halliday * Speech Community--B.Rampton * Language and Communities of Practice--J.Holmes and M.Meyerhoff * PART II: DIALECT AND LANGUAGE VARIATION SURVEYS * Editorial Introduction to Part II * Dialect in Society--W.Wolfram * The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores--W.Labov * The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich--P.Trudgill * Linguistic Variation and Vernacular Culture--J.Cheshire * Network Structure and Linguistic Change--J.Milroy and L.Milroy * Quotative BE+LIKE in Canada and Britain--S.Tagliamonte and R.Hudson * Demythologising Sociolinguistics--D.Cameron * PART III: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY * Editorial Introduction to Part III * Women's Language' or 'Powerless Language'?--W.O'Barr and B.K.Atkins * Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls--J.Coates * 'Why Be Normal?': The Language and Identity Practices of Nerd Girls--M.Bucholtz * Indexing Gender--E.Ochs * Fraternity Men: Variation and Identity--S.Kiesling * No--D.Kulick * Interaction: The Work Women Do--P.Fishman * PART IV: STYLE, STYLISATION AND IDENTITY * Editorial Introduction to Part IV * Style as Distinctiveness--J.Irvine * Accommodation Theory--H.Giles * Language Style as Audience Design--A.Bell * Acts of Conflicting Identity: The Sociolinguistics of British Pop-song Pronunciation--P.Trudgill * Yorkville Crossing--C.Cutler * PART V: LANGUAGE ATTITUDES, IDEOLOGY AND SOCIAL STEREOTYPES * Editorial Introduction to Part V * Social Groups and Social Stereotypes--M.Hewstone and H.Giles * Perceptual Dialectology--D.Preston * Social Class Differences and the Identification of Sex in Children's Speech--J.Edwards * Language Ideology--K.Woolard * Race, Class and Language Ideology--L.Milroy * PART VI: MULTILINGUALISM, CODE-SWITCHING AND DIGLOSSIA * Editorial Introduction to Part VI * Language Types in Multilingual Situations--W.Stewart * Classical Diglossia--C.Ferguson * Code-switching in Conversation--P.Auer * Pidgin English Advertising--S.Romaine * Patois and the Politics of Protest: Black English in British Classrooms--V.Edwards * Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community--S.Gal * Language Death--N.Dorian * Sociolinguistics and Globalisation--J.Blommaert * PART VII: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND INTERACTION * Editorial Introduction to Part VII * The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language--B.L.Whorf * Poetics and Performance--R.Bauman and C.Briggs * Rules for Ritual Insults--W.Labov * Politeness, Power and Humour in the Workplace--J.Holmes * Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom-- S.U.Phillips * 'Griping' as a Verbal Ritual--T.Katriel * Index