William Downes

Language and Society 2ed

Herausgeber: Aitchison, Jean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a clear and reliable introduction to the field of sociolinguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780521456630
• ISBN-10: 0521456630
• Artikelnr.: 22269641

Autorenporträt

William Downes is currently a Senior Fellow in the School of Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Adjunct Professor of English and Linguistics at Glendon College, York University, Toronto. Educated at Queen's University and the University of Toronto and at University College London, he has taught at York University, Toronto, and in England at the London School of Economics and the University of East Anglia. He has been a Northrop Frye Fellow at Victoria College and Senior Resident at Massey College, University of Toronto. His most recent book Language and Religion: A Journey into the Human Mind was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. Committed to interdisciplinarity - he has bridged the human sciences, linguistics, and the humanities, literature, philosophy, history and politics - he believes that the concept of the 'two cultures' is an over-simple and problematical notion within the overall philosophy and history of disciplined inquiry. His long term research programme has been the use of the science of linguistics, broadly understood to include cognition and communication, as a method for the study of cultural representations in social context in a way sensitive to issues in philosophy and politics and the other humanities. This is a study of the nature of the representation of information in all its forms; in cognition or the mind-brain, in behaviour, in language in all its varieties and contexts, in history, literature, music, art and architecture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Linguistics and sociolinguistics
2. A tapestry in space and time
3. Language varieties: processes and problems
4. Discovering the structure in variation
5. Rhoticity
6. At the intersection of social factors
7. Change, meaning and acts of identity
8. The discourse of social life
9. Communication: words and world
10. Action and critique
11. Language and social explanation
Further reading
References
Index.