ISBN:
9780415725071
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (745 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
Parallel Title:
Print version Sociolinguistics Today : International Perspectives
DDC:
306.4/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part I: Introduction; 1. Sociolinguistics today: Asia and the west; Background; The Hong Kong conference; Hong Kong - tension and change; Sociolinguistic issues in Hong Kong; Sociolinguistics Today; The development of sociolinguistics; The scope of sociolinguistics; The 'sociology of language' and 'sociolinguistics'; 'Macro' and 'micro' sociolinguistics; Objectives; Current perspectives; Recent surveys of sociolinguistic studies
Description / Table of Contents:
'Western sociolinguistics' versus 'Asian sociolinguistics'Sociolinguistics in Asia; China; Hong Kong and Macau; India; Japan; Malaysia; The Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; Sociolinguistics in other Asian societies; Future Directions in Sociolinguistics; 'Formalist' versus 'functionalist' approaches; Linguistic theory: 'segregationalism' versus 'integrationalism'; Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives; Bibliography; Part II: Sociolinguistic theory; 2. Dialect contact, dialectology and sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Description / Table of Contents:
Different Approaches to the Same Problem: DiffusionA dialectological approach; A macro-sociolinguistic/geolinguistic approach; A micro-linguistic approach; Conclusion; References; 3. Meaning in sociolinguistic theory; Introduction; I: Empirical Foundations; The focus of the research; About the subjects; Social class: an excursus; The social position of the subjects; The nature of the data; The semantic debate; Semantic networks; The statistical analysis; The context of control: some dialogues; Meanings in control: a sociolinguistic variable; The semantic features; II: Theory from Practice
Description / Table of Contents:
Invisible control: the meaning of PCISemantic variation: data in search of theory; Basil Bernstein on class and control: visible and invisible; Coda: the subject-matter of sociolinguistics; Notes; References; 4. Sociolinguistic aspects of literacy; The International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy -1988 Workshop; Focusing and diffusion; 1988 workshop concerns; Earlier Structuralist Approaches; 'The Mother Tongue' Assumption; Focused and Diffuse Communal Usage; Chinese; Computers as standardizing agents; Motivation for literacy; Nigeria
Description / Table of Contents:
Post-colonial stereotypes and political willMauritius; Former French colonies in Africa; Senegal and Ivory Coast and the Central African Republic; The Caribbean; A comparative success story: Swahili in East Africa; Change and variation; focusing and diffusion in writing systems; Variability within and between orthographies; Variables in the assessment of literacy: overt and covert stereotypes, Europe and elsewhere; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part III: Language variation, culture and society; 5. Social network and prestige arguments in sociolinguistics; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Prestige, Class and the Tradition
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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