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The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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This Oxford Handbook challenges basic concepts that have informed
the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. In
27 chapters, the book challenges the modernist positivist
perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech
communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the
ultimate authority. Instead, it offers a critical poststructuralist
perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to
the emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new
theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant
concepts. The contributors to this volume take this critical
poststructuralist perspective as a starting point for engaging in
explorations of a range of sociolinguistic topics including
language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism,
language policy, linguistic landscapes and multimodality. Each of
the contributors provides a critical overview of the limits of
modernist positivist perspectives on their topic and offer ways of
theorizing and researching their topic in ways that are aligned
with a critical poststructuralist perspective. The book also
provides a global perspective on these issues with contributors
focused on North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa.
Together, the interdisciplinary and global contributions reveal the
limits of conventional approaches to sociolinguistics and offer a
glimpse into directions for the future of the field.
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