The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics,
developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been
matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time,
social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many
ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. Sociolinguistics and
Social Theory is the first book to explore the interface between
sociolinguistic analysis and modern social theory.
Nikolas Coupland is Professor and Director of the Centre for
Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. Srikant
Sarangi is Reader in Language and Communication at the Centre for
Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, and
Christopher N. Candlin is Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics
and Director of the Centre for English Language Education and
Communication Research, City University of Hong Kong.
The 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 change
- language, power and authority
- language and ageing
- language, race and class
- language planning
In substantial introductory and concluding chapters, the editors
and invited discussants reassess the boundaries of sociolinguistic
theory and the priorities ofsociolinguistic methods.
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory encourages students and
researchers of sociolinguistics to be more reflexively aware and
critical of the social bases of their analyses and invites a
reasessment of the place sociolinguistics occupies in the social
sciences generally.
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