Socio Linguistics Beau Patterson & Ryan West
- ISBN: 9781788824026
- Edition: 1st
- ©Year: 2020
- List Price : 140
About the Book
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It differs from sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society. Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics. It is historically closely related to linguistic anthropology, and the distinction between the two fields has been questioned.This bookdeals with the social life of language.The field ranges from micro-analyses to broadly-based policy and planning undertakings. As such, this book draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and psycholinguistics. The relationship between language and identity - whether of an individual or a group - is a strong thread linking all the topics covered in the book. For researchers and advanced students, it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research.
Contents: 1. Language Development, 2. Having Language Proficiency, 3. Language change and Variation, 4. English as a Global Language, 5. Language and Society,
6. Language and Literacy, 7. Diglossia and Prestige, 8. Language Ideology,
9. Sociolinguistics Relationship with other Related Fields.
Beau Patterson is a Senior Lecturerat the Nottingham. He is the author of Investigating English Language, Linguistics and co-editor of Contextualized Stylistics. He has researched and written on varieties of the English language and is the editor of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications. Beau Patterson's current book updated thoroughly and new examples have been added to enhance understanding. A major addition to this edition is an extended chapter on discourse analysis which outlines a number of different approaches to analyzing spoken language in its social context. Beau Patterson is very passionate about all reading, writing, rights and benefits.
Ryan West is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at Toronto. He is the author of a number of books, including Proper English, About Linguistics and Understanding English Grammar, both published by a reputed publication. Ryan West's present edition of Socio Linguistics expertly synthesizes the main approaches to the subject. It covers areas such as multilingualism, code-choice, language variation, dialectology, interactional studies, gender, language contact, language and inequality, and language and power. He has to his credit about 44 research articles published in national and international journals of repute and conference proceedings.