Sociolinguistics

The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work.

The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact.

An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya.

Anthropology and linguistics, as historically developing disciplines, have had partly separate roots and traditions.

This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs.

This volume consists of six essays on interrelated themes, focusing on key aspects of language reflection during the period 1500-1800, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century.

In the late Qing period, from the Opium War to the 1911 revolution, China absorbed the initial impact of Western arms, manufactures, science and culture, in that order.

The American courtroom trial is a speech situation.

This volume covers many of the ways of speaking that create problems between doctor and patient.

Today, computer-mediated communication spans a range of activities from interactive messages to word processing.

This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent.

The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology.

This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa.

Pretend play in early childhood arises in the context of social interaction and, as such, constitutes a form of discourse indigenous to the child's world.

An empirical study based on an analysis of 35 taped job interviews.

The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift.

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition.

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries.

The book sketches a systematics of non-verbal communication.

This is the second volume of papers on sign-based linguistics to emerge from Columbia School linguistics conferences.

The selection of entries in this bibliography reflects the following definition of pragmatics: The study (i) of the use and extra-linguistic function(s) of language, and (ii) of the relation between such uses or functions and the structure of language, i.

It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being "e;irrelevant"e;.

Walburga von Raffler-Engel takes a novel approach to compiling information about doctor-patient communication.

In this book, a study is made of ethnic prejudice in cognition and conversation, based on intensive interviewing of white majority group members.

This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate (showing putative competitors to be either false to fact, too narrow or too wide, or demonstrably equivalent).

The assumption underlying this book is that we are facing a societal transformation, a "e;silent revolution"e; in fact, with consequences at least as far reaching as those of the Industrial Revolution.

Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic.

Pragmatics and Fiction explores the basic pragmatic differences between fictional and nonfictional discourse.

The various contributions to this volume converge on two themes.

With reference to a brief description of inherent properties of the international news reporting process in a free press tradition, Verschueren criticizes their being neglected in linguistic approaches to the language of the media.

Mentally retarded individuals have been studied almost exclusively as clinical entities, not as persons immersed in the stream of social life.

This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior.

Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach is a pioneering collection of papers that take Dialogue Studies out of its 'classic' narrow definition into the study of the complexities and processes in dialogue.

Two of the most prominent hypotheses about why the structures of the Creole languages of the Atlantic and the Pacific differ are the universalist and he substrate hypotheses.

Translation from the original Russian edition.

The "e;common core"e; of different sociolinguistic schools includes a number of general problems such as the social differentiation of language, the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and diglossia, the typology of linguistic situations, language engineering, national and standard languages and their social functions, etc.

Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics provides a treasure of information on the Japanese language and the social and cultural system it has developed and is embedded in.

Jucker endeavors to test pragmatic concepts (such as Grice's principles of conversational inference) by applying them to concrete data.

This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages.

This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature.