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This book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks
to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are
firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production,
focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex
relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters
address issues ranging from author positionality to the central
theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the
language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin
to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about
everything from academic writing to research methods and language
teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration
for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial
hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’
sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful
argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and
social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is
our future and how we imagine it.
This book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks
to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are
firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production,
focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex
relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters
address issues ranging from author positionality to the central
theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the
language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin
to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about
everything from academic writing to research methods and language
teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration
for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial
hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’
sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful
argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and
social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is
our future and how we imagine it.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of
multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of
linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a
theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic
citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand
sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular
on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies.
The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and
radical social transformations in democracies in the north and
south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a
resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics.
Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship
by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice)
should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize
what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of
multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of
linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a
theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic
citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand
sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular
on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies.
The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and
radical social transformations in democracies in the north and
south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a
resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics.
Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship
by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice)
should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize
what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.
Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern
linguistics and deals with the place of language in human
societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics
expertly synthesises the main approaches to the subject. The book
covers areas such as multilingualism, code-choice, language
variation, dialectology, interactional studies, gender, language
contact, language and inequality, and language and power. At the
same time it provides an integrated perspective on these themes by
examining sociological theories of human interaction. In this
regard power and inequality are particularly significant. The book
also contains two chapters on the applications of sociolinguistics
(in education and in language policy and planning) and a concluding
chapter on the sociolinguistics of sign language. New topics
covered include speaking style and stylisation, while current
debates in areas like creolisation, globalisation and language
death, language planning, and gender are reflected. Written
collaboratively by teachers and scholars with first hand experience
of sociolinguistic developments on four continents, this book
provides the broadest introduction currently available to the
central topics in sociolinguistics. Features: * Provides a solid
foundation in all aspects of sociolinguistics and explores
important themes such as power and inequality, sign language,
gender and the internet * Well illustrated with maps, diagrams,
inset boxes, drawings and cartoons * Accessibly written with the
beginner in mind * Uses numerous examples from multilingual
settings * Explains basic concepts, supported by a glossary *
Further Reading lists, a full bibliography, and a section on 'next
steps' provide valuable guidance.
This book applies sociolinguistic methodologies and theories to
mobile communication. Have wireless mobile communication
technologies changed the way people talk to one another? What does
it mean to be able to speak or write to anyone, anywhere, 24/7/365,
and get an immediate response? And what does the current profusion
of these technologies mean for the study of language in social
life? This volume takes a global perspective and provides readers
with a nuanced, ethnographically-informed understanding of mobile
communication and sociolinguistics. It explores a wide range of
digital applications, including SMS, email, Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, chatting, blogging, Wikipedia, Second Life and gaming. It
raises important questions about the nature of language, the roles
of multimodality and intertextuality in creating meaning, and the
realities and consequences of digital linguistic inequality. It
explores the formation of virtual communities, ways of online
socialising and the performance of the digital 'self'. Based on a
multicultural and multilingual approach, it gives a comprehensive
and intriguing overview of digital communication. It contains a
glossary of relevant terms. It provides a global context which
highlights common trends and practices in mobile communication. It
utilises extensive original multilingual data within case studies.
It discusses new research insights and innovative interdisciplinary
approaches.
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