ISBN:
0521571766
,
0511255632
,
0521576857
,
9780521571760
,
9780521576857
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 427 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language no. 24
Parallel Title:
Print version Language and Social Relations
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Interpersonal communication
Abstract:
Explores the important role of language in various aspects of our social life, such as identity, gender relations, class, kinship, status, and hierarchies. Drawing on authentic data from over thirty different languages and societies, it shows how we use language to formulate and transmit models of social life and conduct
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Typographical conventions; Introduction; 1 Reflexivity; 2 From referring to registers; 3 Register formations; 4 The social life of cultural value; 5 Regrouping identity; 6 Registers of person deixis; 7 Honorific registers; 8 Norm and trope in kinship behavior; Notes; References; Index; Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-418) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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