Sociolinguistics

Within the European context, linguistic diversity can be studied at the level of both official state languages and non-national languages.

The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts.

This book presents current research that discusses some of the major issues in pragmatics from new perspectives, and directs attention to aspects of fundamental tenets that have been investigated only to a limited extent.

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change.

The volume addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to impoliteness phenomena.

The book uses critical sociolinguistic analysis to examine the social consequences of courtroom talk.

The book is an invitation to a genealogical understanding of the ideological and discursive processes that have emerged out of the regulation of linguistic minorities issues within an international context and, more precisely, at the United Nations.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "KONTAKTLINGUIST.

No detailed description available for "e;SOCIOLINGUISTICS (AMMON) 3.

The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century.

This book is about the doing and experiencing of diagnosis in everyday life.

Globalization has many faces.

The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before.

This volume investigates the linguistic and semantic encodings and conceptions of space in the East-Polynesian language Marquesan by focusing on the great variety of language- and culture-specific ways of referring to space, thus documenting an essential part of human behaviour and everyday communication in a South Pacific island population.

This volume explores the reversing language shift (RLS) theory in the Mexican scenario from various viewpoints: The sociohistorical perspective delves into the dynamics of power that emerged in the Mexican colony as a result of the presence of Spanish.

How does a country find itself 'at war' over spelling?

Narrative as Social Practice sets out to explore the complex and fascinating interrelatedness of narrative and culture.

Is the world en route to becoming a linguistic colony of the United States?

This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondonia, Brazil.

Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Text- und Gesprächslinguistik 2.

No detailed description available for "e;FACHSPRACHEN (HOFFMANN) 2.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "KONTAKTLINGUISTIK (GOEBL U.

No detailed description available for "e;HASPELMATH ET AL:LANG.

The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes.

Mastering the vocabulary of a foreign language is one of the most daunting tasks that language learners face.

A union of Cognitive Linguistics and Sociolinguistics was bound to happen.

The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set Body, Language and Mind introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it.

One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "e;mind"e; and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment.

As you are reading this, you are finding yourself in the ubiquitous public sphere that is the Web.

A Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety.

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries.

In today's globalized world of international contact and multicultural interaction, effective intercultural communication is increasingly seen as a pre-requisite for social harmony and organisational success.

This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in international institutions in a globalized world.

A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author's fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India.

This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles.

Hermann Glasers Sprachfeuilletons beschäftigen sich mit der Stereotypie der öffentlichen Sprache, mit jener Form von Kommunikation, die sich stereotyper Formeln und Redeweisen bedient, innerhalb eines bestimmten sozialen und lokalen Rahmens, der vorab schon jegliche Übereinkünfte und Zustimmungen festgelegt hat und voraussetzt.

Eine 1994 erstmals veröffentlichte Auseinandersetzung mit Filmen, die jugendliche Lebenswelten aufnehmen, widerspiegeln und weiterentwickeln: von den »Halbstarken«- und »Schlager«-Filmen der 50er Jahre über die »Undergroundfilme«, »Kultfilme« und »Szenen-Filme« bis hin zu den nostalgischen Rückblicken.

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented.

Überall wird im öffentlichen Diskurs heute auf Befindlichkeiten Rücksicht genommen: Es werden vor Gefahren wie »expliziter Sprache« gewarnt, Schreibweisen mit Binnen-I empfohlen, dritte Klotüren installiert.

Sprache dient der Verständigung.

"Solange es nur Menschenrechte gibt, gibt es noch keine Menschengerechtigkeit.

entlarvend – vernichtend – schonungslosWenn eine Regenhose zur »Schutzwaffe« wird, um friedliche Demonstranten als Bedrohung hinzustellen, der Gefahrenbereich zur »Sicherheitszone« mutiert oder der staatlich sanktionierte Mord zur »gezieltenTötung« wird, um sie notwendig und richtig erscheinen zu lassen – dann steckt eine Absicht dahinter: Verschleiern, was das Zeug hält!

Dieser Sammelband präsentiert Ergebnisse des DFG-Forschungsprojekts "Lexikalische und grammatische Typologie des Yukatekischen Maya" (Universitäten Bielefeld und Erfurt 1996–2002, Leitung Christian Lehmann).