Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Sociolinguistics and social theory / edited by Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi and Christopher N. Candlin.

Contributor(s): Candlin, Christopher N | Coupland, Nikolas, 1950- | Sarangi, Srikant, 1956- | Cardiff Roundtable in Language and Communication (2nd : 1997 : Cardiff University).
Series: Language in social life series. Publisher: Harlow, England : Longman, 2001Description: xvi, 399 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0582327830.Subject(s): Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Congresses | Sociolinguistics -- CongressesDDC classification: 306.44
Contents:
List of contributors. - Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements. - Introduction: Sociolinguistic theory and social theory. - Pt. I. Language, theory and the social. 1. A Comparative perspective on social theoretical accounts of the language-action interrelationship. 2. Dynamics of differentiation: On social psychology and cases of language variation. 3. Sociolinguistics, cognitivism and discursive psychology. - Pt. II. Language and discourse as social practice. 4. Dynamics of discourse or stability of structure: Sociolinguistics and the legacy from linguistics. 5. Discourse, accumulation of symbolic capital and power: The case of American Visions. 6. Co-membership and wiggle room: Some implications of the study of talk for the development of social theory. - Pt. III. Language, ideology and social categorisation. 7. Age in social and sociolinguistic theory. 8. Undoing the macro/micro dichotomy: Ideology and categorisation in a linguistic minority school. 9. The social categories of race and class: Language ideology and sociolinguistics. 10. Language crossing, cross-talk, and cross-disciplinarity in sociolinguistics. 11. Discourse theory and language planning: A critical reading of language planning reports in Switzerland. - Pt. IV. Retrospective commentaries. 12. 'Critical' social theory: Good to think with or something more? 13. Who needs social theory anyway? - 'Motivational relevancies': Some methodological reflections on social theoretical and sociolinguistic practice. - Index.
Summary: This book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including social motivations for language variation and chang ; language, power and authority ; language in institutional and professional settings ; age, language, race and class ; language planning. In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociololinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistic and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistic to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reassessment of the place sociolinguistics accupies in the social sciences generally. - Back cover.
Item type Current location Shelf location Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Main Collection Taylor's Library-TU

Floor 3, Shelf 4 , Side 2, TierNo 1, BayNo 7

306.44 SOC (Browse shelf) 1 Available SOMAC,09030,03,GR 5000046030

Papers presented at the 2nd Cardiff Roundtable in Language and Communication, held June 1997, Cardiff University

List of contributors. - Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements. - Introduction: Sociolinguistic theory and social theory. - Pt. I. Language, theory and the social. 1. A Comparative perspective on social theoretical accounts of the language-action interrelationship. 2. Dynamics of differentiation: On social psychology and cases of language variation. 3. Sociolinguistics, cognitivism and discursive psychology. - Pt. II. Language and discourse as social practice. 4. Dynamics of discourse or stability of structure: Sociolinguistics and the legacy from linguistics. 5. Discourse, accumulation of symbolic capital and power: The case of American Visions. 6. Co-membership and wiggle room: Some implications of the study of talk for the development of social theory. - Pt. III. Language, ideology and social categorisation. 7. Age in social and sociolinguistic theory. 8. Undoing the macro/micro dichotomy: Ideology and categorisation in a linguistic minority school. 9. The social categories of race and class: Language ideology and sociolinguistics. 10. Language crossing, cross-talk, and cross-disciplinarity in sociolinguistics. 11. Discourse theory and language planning: A critical reading of language planning reports in Switzerland. - Pt. IV. Retrospective commentaries. 12. 'Critical' social theory: Good to think with or something more? 13. Who needs social theory anyway? - 'Motivational relevancies': Some methodological reflections on social theoretical and sociolinguistic practice. - Index.

This book sets out to reunite sociolinguistics with the concepts and perspectives of several of the most influential modern theorists of society and social action, including Bakhtin, Foucault, Habermas, Sacks, Goffman, Bourdieu and Giddens. In eleven newly commissioned chapters, leading sociolinguists reappraise the theoretical framing of their research, reaching out beyond conventional limits. The authors propose significant new orientations to key sociolinguistic themes, including social motivations for language variation and chang ; language, power and authority ; language in institutional and professional settings ; age, language, race and class ; language planning. In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociololinguistic theory and the priorities of sociolinguistic methods. Sociolinguistic and Social Theory encourages students and researchers of sociolinguistic to be more reflexively aware and critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a reassessment of the place sociolinguistics accupies in the social sciences generally. - Back cover.