Sociolinguistics & status people, politics, power & prestige / Sandra Colly-Durand.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oakville, ON : Society Publishing, c2018Description: x, 322 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781773612638 (hardcover)
- P40 C69 2018
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section | Non-fiction | RUS P40 C69 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Room use only | 78017 | 00078964 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.
Introduction -- From structural linguistics to sociolinguistics -- In the beginning: creoles and language genesis -- Englishes of the world -- The rise of sociolinguistics in education -- A space for language & a space for culture: Jamaican teachers negotiating with representations of identify and globalization -- Sociolinguistics and poetry: posture and imposture -- From lingua franca to a globalized culture trope -- Language as commodity --
Language as a belief system and a representation -- Conclusion.
"This book is intended to provide scholars and specialists alike a solid, in depth analysis of topics treating the domains of sociolinguistics and sociology of language. The material in the book is generally designed to encourage additional discussion and research, in perhaps a classroom setting or in workshops. To this end, several case studies and detail research are presented and analysed with a view to providing regionally specific data and then to examine convergence or lack thereof. It provides basic definitions and review all the fundamentals before branching out further afield into a deeper, more complex, less traditional, more current developments and concerns in sociolinguistics and a bit beyond. For example, structuralism is explored, its strengths and weakness discussed. The reader will also find other pillars of linguistics as the book moves from Saussurian and Chomskian linguistics to William Labov’s sociolinguists. It deals with a wide range of topics and sub-topics which have been organized chronologically where possible to allow the reader to get a logical grasp of the various advances in the field.
The reader will find several well-known language controversies and numerous more situations which have not benefitted from the exposure they deserve, particularly as language spread, language domination and linguicde are topics which should interests us all.
A significant part of this work is dedicated to endangered languages and the process which led them to precarious situation. It highlights language ecology and demonstrates how ecolinguistics related to biodiversity examining the issues from a socio-historical angle.
The book concludes with more key facts about languages in general and particularly in order to highlight and underline the urgent language related issues outlined throughout the work. Readers should be left with a desire to act in order to re-establish healthy pre-Colombian status, and prestige to maringalized peoples and their languages."--Back cover
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