What Is Sociolinguistics?John Wiley & Sons, 27 feb 2012 - 243 páginas "I'm sitting here in Newfoundland, in Canada, writing a book about sociolinguistics, and you're out there somewhere, starting to read it. If you were here and could hear me talk—especially if you were Canadian, especially if you had some training—you could tell a lot about me. When I speak English, most people can tell I'm North American (I pronounce schedule with a [sk] sound), Canadian (I rhyme shone with gone, not bone), and probably from Quebec (I keep my socks in a bureau). And if I was wherever you are, I could probably tell a lot about your speech community and where you fit into it. The fact that we can do this is one of the things that interest sociolinguists..." It's rare to encounter a textbook that one will want to read cover to cover. But Gerard van Herk has written exactly that, introducing students to the field of sociolinguistics as the best teachers do: with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge. 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. The chapters contains useful and clear features including:
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Introduction | 1 |
Language and Society | 10 |
Dialect slang accent variety | 15 |
Where to next? | 21 |
Place | 25 |
Dialect leveling | 28 |
Shibboleths | 34 |
The people in the neighborhood | 40 |
Different tasks different attention to speech | 106 |
Interaction | 116 |
Ethnography as a research practice | 119 |
Multilingualism | 127 |
Where to next? | 132 |
Exercises | 134 |
Attitudes and Ideologies | 148 |
Language as a Social Entity | 161 |
Social Status | 47 |
Chapter 4 | 51 |
Where to next? | 57 |
Time | 60 |
Language change and age grading in Panama | 65 |
Chapter 5 | 69 |
Ethnicity | 75 |
Calling people names | 79 |
Gender and Identity | 85 |
20 | 92 |
Style | 104 |
21 | 166 |
Education | 175 |
28 | 177 |
What is Sociolinguistics? | 188 |
Glossary | 197 |
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