Språksociologi

Språket har många sociala sidor. Varje samtal, yttrande och ord har en social innebörd som i sin tur får sociala konsekvenser. Vårt språk har också betydelse för hur vi definierar oss själva och vår omgivning. Läs mer Inom sociolingvistiken studer...

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Vårt språk påverkas av en mängd olika faktorer: var i landet vi vuxit upp, vilken socialgrupp vi tillhör, hur gamla vi är, vilket kön vi har etc. De flesta människor varierar också sitt språk efter situation och samtalspartner. Det här är en intro...

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Språkpolitik kan handla om två ting. Dels om förhållandet mellan olika språk i samhället: något eller några ska vara landets huvudspråk, några ska användas som undervisningsspråk, i myndighetskontakter eller i medier. Dels om det inre tillståndet ...

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Introducing Multilingualism is a comprehensive and user-friendly introduction to the dynamic field of multilingualism. Adopting a compelling social and critical approach and covering important social and educational issues, the authors expertly gu...

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Fully updated to reflect the most recent scholarship in the field and revised to include many more pedagogical features, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th Edition builds on its foundation as the most preeminent textbook in sociolinguistics,...

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Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety of social contexts.a This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society and how it varies according to age, ethnicit...

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Vad du säger och hur du säger saker har betydelse både för dig själv och för andra. Det finns en stark koppling mellan ett hårt språkbruk och känslan av otrygghet i olika grupper. Genom kunskap och engagemang kan du få barn och unga att själva var...

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Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates expl...

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Djupare insikter i sociolingvistik - studier av hur språk och samhälle hänger samman - nås bäst genom att utföra egna undersökningar, inte genom att enbart läsa om andras studier. I den här boken visar ett antal forskare hur de rent praktiskt gör ...

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From Scotland to Singapore, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of Standard English spoken around the world. Comparisons across the variet...

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Few books have addressed research for teachers to turn to as a resource for classroom practice but here Kumashiro draws on interviews with gay activists as a starting point for discussion of models of reading and challenging oppression.

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Den språkliga jämställdheten mellan könen är relativt god i Sverige, internationellt sett. Ändå förekommer åtskilligt språkligt könsförtryck i attityder, i val av ord och uttryckssätt, i samtalsvanor och framställningsperspektiv. Perspektiv och fö...

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This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters tr...

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The third edition of World Englishes provides an engaging overview of the global variations in vocabulary, grammar, phonology and pragmatics of English as it is used worldwide. This book introduces the principles of linguistic variation and provid...

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This volume offers a new and distinct multicultural approach to the philosophy of social science. In providing a complete introductory overview of the nature of social inquiry, Fay explores issues inherent in the study of human beings from the per...

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Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with a comprehensive, up-to-date and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller ex...

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This study provides a definition and a typology of swearing and compares its manifestations in English and 24 other languages. In addition the study traces the history of swearing from its first known appearance in Ancient Egypt to the present day.

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This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar with the key concepts and methods in various domains while learning...

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This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or c...

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Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people's everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in thei...

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Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly synthesises the main approaches to the subject. The book co...

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This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise fo...

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An interdisciplinary group of scholars investigates the claim that humans are essentially normative animals. They do so by looking at the nature and relations of three types of norms, or putative normssocial, moral, and linguisticand asking whethe...

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This book is about how language is used in the context of schooling. It demonstrates that the variety of English expected at school differs from the interactional language that students use for social purposes outside of school, and provides a lin...

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This introduction to that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and cultural phenomenon ranges over gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics. This edition looks at the development of a language as a res...

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The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the boo...

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This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised "Ejerci...

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Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society and how it varies according to age, ethnicity...

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Hur lyckades Donald Trump övertyga så många väljare att rösta fram honom till USA:s näste president? Medan en hel värld skakade på huvudet kunde författaren och hypnotisören Scott Adams leverera ett nyktert svar: Trump använde sig av kraftfulla öv...

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