How can sociolinguistics help improve human well-being? What could make sociolinguistics more relevant outside academia? How can public engagement with sociolinguistic research be facilitated? Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact presents a range of contemporary sociolinguistic research projects which answer these questions. Spanning contexts including education, government, the justice system, the workplace, and museums, the chapters show sociolinguists achieving significant improvements in the real-world conditions of people's lives. They also offer critical reflections on the…mehr
How can sociolinguistics help improve human well-being? What could make sociolinguistics more relevant outside academia? How can public engagement with sociolinguistic research be facilitated? Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact presents a range of contemporary sociolinguistic research projects which answer these questions. Spanning contexts including education, government, the justice system, the workplace, and museums, the chapters show sociolinguists achieving significant improvements in the real-world conditions of people's lives. They also offer critical reflections on the meaning of 'impact', as well as clear advice for others pursuing this ascendant priority.
Robert Lawson is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Birmingham City University, UK. Dave Sayers is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK.
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Foreword John R. Rickford Introduction Robert Lawson and Dave Sayers1. Where we're going, we don't need roads: The past, present and future of impact Robert Lawson and Dave Sayers 2. Beyond Empowerment: Accompaniment and Sociolinguistic Justice in a Youth Research Program Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee3. When Children Challenge What's "Obvious". Identities, Discourses, and Representations from the Perspective of Schoolchildren in Vancouver, Canada Catherine Levasseur4. Sociolinguistics in the Museum: Enrichment, Engagement and Education Fiona Douglas5. Public Sociolinguistic Education in the United States: A Proactive, Comprehensive Program Walt Wolfram6. The Signed Language Interpreter's Role in Team Meeting Discourse Jules Dickinson7. Summing Up in Jury Trials as Interactive Discourse - One Plank in the New Zealand Judiciary's Effort to Improve Communication with Juries Bronwen Innes8. Developing a Linguistically Informed Approach to Police Interviewing Nicci MacLeod and Kate Haworth 9. Sociolinguistics in the Public Eye: Mass Media and Social Media in Sociolinguistics Robert Lawson 10. Exploring the Enigma of Welsh Language Policy (or, How to Pursue Impact on a Shoestring) Dave Sayers 11. 'To Be Consulted, to Encourage and to Warn': The Impact of Language-in-Education Research in the Developing World, and its Limits Hywel Coleman12. The Impact of Sociolinguistics on Refugee Status Determination Peter Patrick
Foreword John R. Rickford Introduction Robert Lawson and Dave Sayers1. Where we're going, we don't need roads: The past, present and future of impact Robert Lawson and Dave Sayers 2. Beyond Empowerment: Accompaniment and Sociolinguistic Justice in a Youth Research Program Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas and Jin Sook Lee3. When Children Challenge What's "Obvious". Identities, Discourses, and Representations from the Perspective of Schoolchildren in Vancouver, Canada Catherine Levasseur4. Sociolinguistics in the Museum: Enrichment, Engagement and Education Fiona Douglas5. Public Sociolinguistic Education in the United States: A Proactive, Comprehensive Program Walt Wolfram6. The Signed Language Interpreter's Role in Team Meeting Discourse Jules Dickinson7. Summing Up in Jury Trials as Interactive Discourse - One Plank in the New Zealand Judiciary's Effort to Improve Communication with Juries Bronwen Innes8. Developing a Linguistically Informed Approach to Police Interviewing Nicci MacLeod and Kate Haworth 9. Sociolinguistics in the Public Eye: Mass Media and Social Media in Sociolinguistics Robert Lawson 10. Exploring the Enigma of Welsh Language Policy (or, How to Pursue Impact on a Shoestring) Dave Sayers 11. 'To Be Consulted, to Encourage and to Warn': The Impact of Language-in-Education Research in the Developing World, and its Limits Hywel Coleman12. The Impact of Sociolinguistics on Refugee Status Determination Peter Patrick
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