| Description |
315 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Language in society ; 3 |
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Language in society (Oxford, England) ; 3
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction:. -- Scope and Focus. -- Method. -- Historical Background. -- Significance. -- Organization of the Book. -- 2. Basic Terms, Concepts, and Issues:. -- Patterns of Communication. -- Communicative Functions. -- Speech Community. -- Communicative Competence. -- The Competence of Incompetence. -- Units of Analysis. -- Categories of Talk. -- Language and Culture. -- Social Structure and Ideology. -- Routines and Rituals. -- Universals and Inequalities. -- 3. Varieties of Language:. -- Language Choice. -- Diglossia and Dinomia. -- Code-Switching and Style-Shifting. -- Code-Markers. -- Varieties Associated with Setting. -- Varieties Associated with Activity Domain. -- Varieties Associated with Region. -- Varieties Associated with Ethnicity. -- Varieties Associated with Social Class, Status, and Role. -- Varieties Associated with Role-Relationships. -- Varieties Associated with Sex. -- Varieties Associated with Age. -- Varieties Associated with Personality States and ?Abnormal? Speech. -- Non-Native Varieties. -- 4. The Analysis of Communicative Events:. -- Relationship of Ethnographer and Speech Community. -- Types o f Data. -- Survey of Data Collection and Analytic Procedures. -- Identification of Communicative Events. -- Components of Communication. -- Relationship among Components. -- Elicitation within a Frame. -- Analysis of Interaction. -- Sample Analyses of Communicative Events. -- Further Illustrations of Ethnographic Analysis. -- 5. Contrasts in Patterns of Communication:. -- Comparative Rhetoric. -- Historical Development. -- Ethnographic Perspective. -- Establishing Validity. -- Situated Event Analysis. -- Other Data Collection and Analytic Procedures. -- Cross-Cultural Communication. -- Concepts of ?Face?;. -- Constructing an Unseen Face. -- 6. Attitudes toward Communicative Performance:. -- Methodology. -- Attitudes Toward Language and Language Skills. -- Attitudes Toward Languages and Varieties. -- Stereotyping. -- Appropriateness. -- Language and Identity. -- Language Maintenance, Shift, and Spread. -- Taboos and Euphemisms. -- 7. Acquisition of Communicative Competence:. -- Early Linguistic Development. -- Social Interaction. -- Language and Enculturation. -- Definition of Stages and Roles. -- Communicative Strategies. -- Formulaic Expressions. -- Nonverbal Communication. -- Peer Influence and Extended Acquisition.. -- Speech Play. -- Formal Education. -- Multilingual Contexts.. -- Children?s Beliefs about Language. -- 8. Politeness, Power, and Politics:. -- Language and Politics. -- Language and Social Theories. -- Linguistic Signs of Power. -- Linguistic Performances of Power. -- Linguistic Resistance and Rebellion. -- Language Planning. -- Responsibilities and Limitations. -- 9. Conclusion:. -- References. -- Index of Languages. -- General Index |
| Summary |
Deals with how and why language is used, and how its use varies in different cultures. Presents the essential terms and concepts developed by Dell Hymes |
| Analysis |
Man Communication Linguistic aspects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Previous ed. : 1982 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [272]-307 |
| Subject |
Language and culture.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| LC no. |
88034292 |
| ISBN |
0631166785 |
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