An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Companion Website
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- Key Concepts
- Knowledge of Language
- Competence and performance
- Variation
- Speakers and Their Groups
- Language and Culture
- Directions of influence
- The Whorfian hypothesis
- Correlations
- The Boundaries of Sociolinguistics
- Methodological Concerns
- Data
- Research design
- Overview of the Book
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- References
- Part I: Languages and Communities
- 2: Languages, Dialects, and Varieties
- Key Concepts
- Language or Dialect?
- Mutual intelligibility
- The role of social identity
- Standardization
- The standard as an abstraction
- The standardization process
- The standard and language change
- Standard English?
- The standard-dialect hierarchy
- Regional Dialects
- Dialect continua
- Dialect geography
- Everyone has an accent
- Social Dialects
- Kiezdeutsch 'neighborhood German'
- Ethnic dialects
- African American Vernacular English
- Features of AAVE
- Development of AAVE
- Latino Englishes
- Styles, Registers, and Genres
- Style
- Register
- Genre
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- References
- 3: Defining Groups
- Key Concepts
- Speech Communities
- Linguistic boundaries
- Shared norms
- Communities of Practice
- Social Networks
- Social Identities
- Beliefs about Language and Social Groups
- Ideologies
- Perceptual dialectology
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- References
- 4: Languages in Contact: Multilingual Societies and Multilingual Discourse
- Key Concepts
- Multilingualism as a Societal Phenomenon
- Competencies and convergence in multilingual societies
- Language ideologies surrounding multilingualism
- Linguistic landscapes
- Language attitudes in multilingual settings
- Diglossia
- Domains
- Language attitudes and ideologies
- Language learning
- The statuses of the H and L varieties
- Extended diglossia and language maintenance
- Questioning diglossia
- Multilingual Discourse
- Metaphorical and situational code-switching
- Accommodation and audience design
- The Markedness Model
- Multilingual identities
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- References
- 5: Contact Languages: Structural Consequences of Social Factors
- Key Concepts
- Lingua Francas
- Pidgin and Creole Languages: Definitions
- Connections between P/C languages and second language acquisition
- Pidgin and Creole Formation
- Theories of creole genesis
- Geographical Distribution
- Linguistic Characteristics of P/C Languages
- Phonology
- Morphosyntax
- Vocabulary
- From Pidgin to Creole and Beyond
- Creole continuum?
- Other Contact Varieties: Mixed Languages
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Further Reading
- References
- Part II: Inherent Variety