Sociolinguistics Today

International Perspectives
Herausgeber: Bolton, Kingsley; Kwok, Helen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays developed out of a conference held in Hong Kong in 1988. The aim was to provide a forum for an exchange of views between academics working within the field of sociolinguistics, in particular between those working in the West and those working in the East. Sociolinguistics Today has taken this aim a step further to produce an overview of contemporary research into sociolinguistics worldwide. The book contains articles by acknowledged leaders in the study of language and society, and the presence of sociolinguists working in Asia provides a new and exciting challenge to the hitherto western-dominated field. The comprehensive study of Asian sociolinguistics is unique and engages with the non-Asian contributions to great effect. The range of contributors reinforces the international emphasis of the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138996342
• ISBN-10: 1138996343
• Artikelnr.: 44145778

Autorenporträt

Kingsley Bolton, Helen Kwok

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Introduction 1. Sociolinguistics Today : Asia and the West
Kingsley Bolton Part 2. Sociolinguistic Theory 2. Dialect Contact,
Dialectology and Sociolinguistics Peter Trudgill 3. Meaning in
Sociolinguistic Theory Ruqaiya Hasan 4. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Literacy
R.B. Le Page Part 3. Language Variation, Culture and Society 5. Social
Network and Prestige Arguments in Sociolinguistics James Milroy 6. New
Perspectives in the Analysis of Sex Differentiation in Language Lesley
Milroy 7. Diversity and Uniformity in Chinese Syntax: A Scalar Parametric
Perspective Ping Chen 8. The Non-Beijing Dialect Component in Modern
Standard Chinese Peter Davies 9. The Form and Meaning of Digraphia: The
Case of Chinese Yat-Shing Cheung 10. 'Talk is cheap...' but 'My word is my
bond': Beliefs About Talk Howard Giles, Nikolas Coupland and John Wiemann
11. Invoking the Spirits in Palawan: Ethnography and Pragmatics Charles
Macdonald Part 4. Multilingualism 12. Some Major Features of the
Sociolinguistic Situation in Europe and the European Charter Andrée
Tabouret-Keller 13. Vernacular-Language Education Reconsidered Ralph W.
Fasold 14. Reconceptualization, Translation and the Intellectualization of
a Third World Language: The Case of Filipino Andrew Gonzalez 15. Contact
Features of Singapore Colloquial English Anthea Fraser Gupta Part 5.
Current Perspectives in Sociolinguistics 16 Sociolinguistics in Linguistics
Ralph Fasold 17. The Theoretical Status of Linguistics James Milroy 18.
Current and Future Directions in Sociolinguistics: A Social Psychological
Contribution Howard Giles