Sociolinguistic Styles

Sociolinguistic Styles
Author: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119555434

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Sociolinguistic Styles presents a new and in-depth, historically rooted overview of the phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistic variation. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field, the text explores why, where and when it occurs. Full examination of the complex phenomenon of style-shifting in sociolinguistics, focusing on its nature and social motivations, as well as on the mechanisms for its usage and its effects In-depth, up-to-date critical overview of the different theoretical approaches accounting for stylistic variation, exploring their historical roots not only in sociolinguistics and stylistics or semiotics but also in classical fields such as rhetoric and oratory Coverage of a wide range of related concepts and issues, from the oldest Greek ethos and pathos or Roman elocutio and pronuntiatio to the contemporary enregisterment, stylisation, stance, or crossing Written by an academic who has been instrumental in developing theory in this area of sociolinguistics

Literature as Social Discourse

Literature as Social Discourse
Author: Roger Fowler
Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1981
Genre: Criticism
ISBN:

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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
Author: Penelope Eckert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521597890

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This study of sociolinguistic variation examines the relation between social identity and ways of speaking. Studying variations in language not only reveals a great deal about speakers' strategies with respect to variables such as social class, gender, ethnicity and age, it also affords us the opportunity to observe linguistic change in progress. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation. Beginning with an introduction to theoretical issues, the book goes on to discuss key approaches to stylistic variation in spoken language, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.

Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech

Heteroglossia and Language Play in Multilingual Speech
Author: Darren LaScotte
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2024-01-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110787695

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The studies in this volume show how multilingual learners use language play in second language acquisition to internalize sets of ‘voices’ (rather than decontextualized linguistic systems), namely complexes of linguistic and non-linguistic features incorporating the personalities of significant others. In sociocultural terms, these internalized heteroglossic voices become tools that learners can adapt and use playfully to enact chosen roles, stances, and identities in subsequent oral interactions. Different chapters explore these sociocultural constructs using different approaches, including variationist sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, translanguaging, and positioning theory.

Language, Text and Context

Language, Text and Context
Author: Michael Toolan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131540236X

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First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental separation of text from context, linguistic description from descriptive interpretation, or language from situation. The essays cover a historically diverse set of texts, from Puttenham to Colemanballs, and a number of language-sensitive topics such as post-modernism, irony, newspaper representations, gender and narrative.

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
Author: S. Chapman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137023279

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In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.

Rethinking Language, Text and Context

Rethinking Language, Text and Context
Author: Ruth Page
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351183206

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This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan’s pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field and its related disciplines. Featuring work from an international range of contributors, the book illustrates how the field of stylistics has evolved in the 25 years since the publication of Toolan’s seminal Language, Text and Context, which laid the foundation for the analysis of the language and style in literary texts. The volume demonstrates how technological innovations and the development of new interdisciplinary methodologies, including those from corpus, cognitive, and multimodal stylistics, point to the greater degree of interplay between language, text, and context exemplified in current research and how this dynamic relationship can be understood by featuring examples from a variety of texts and media. Underscoring the significance of Michael Toolan’s extensive work in the field in the evolution of literary linguistic research, this volume is key reading for students and researchers in stylistics, discourse studies, corpus linguistics, and interdisciplinary literary studies.

Political Stylistics

Political Stylistics
Author: Pascale Gaitet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2024-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1040017479

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First published in 1992, Political Stylistics draws together ideas about society and language from a range of theorists including Pratt, Bourdieu, Goody and Watt, and Bakhtin, to establish a political stylistics: a way of studying the formal properties of texts based on the principle that all linguistic production operates within the intricate network of power relations that structure the social realm. On a practical level, this methodology is used to analyse the representation of popular French and argot in three literary works where it extends beyond the speech of the characters and enters the narrative. The book is articulated along three axes: the trajectory of the French working class from mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century; the trajectory of popular language from social margin to literary centre; and the evolution of the novel from naturalism to modernism, to post-modernism. This book will be of interest to students of literature, linguistics, literary theory, and cultural studies.

The State of Stylistics

The State of Stylistics
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401206082

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The State of Stylistics contains a broad collection of papers that investigate how stylistics has evolved throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In so doing, it considers how stylisticians currently perceive their own respective fields of enquiry. It also defines what stylistics is, and how we might use it in research and teaching.