Figueroa Sociolinguistic Metatheory

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4832-9609-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Language and Communication Library

Linguistics is a discipline with ever expanding boundaries and interests. Despite the narrow definition of linguistics which dominates academia, sub-fields continue to flourish and ways of doing linguistics continue to expand. As ways to do linguistics increase, and as approaches to linguistics accumulate over time, it becomes increasingly necessary for students of linguistics to have ways of understanding and comparing developments in linguistics.Sociolinguistic Metatheory is a book which explains foundational developments in linguistics by taking the past three decades of developments in sociolinguistics and relating them to contemporaneous developments in received linguistics. Sociolinguistic Metatheory takes the reader through the basic philosophical questions which drive linguistic research. It looks in detail at three models of sociolinguistics - Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication, William Labov and Sociolinguistic Realism, and John Gumperz and Interactional Sociolinguistics - and focuses on such questions as: Where is language located? How is an utterance-based approach to linguistics different from a sentence-based approach? How do metatheoretical paradigm assumptions such as realism or relativism affect the development of linguistic theory? What interesting developments in linguistic theory and analysis have sociolinguistics provided?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Figueroa, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Sociolinguistic Metatheory;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Content;8
5;Acknowledgements;10
6;Part One: Paradigms: The Metaphysical Level;28
6.1;Chapter 1. Introduction;12
6.1.1;The Problem;12
6.1.2;Overview of Study;21
6.1.3;Notes;25
6.2;Chapter 2. Foundations of Sociolinguistic Theory;28
6.2.1;The Need for "Metaworries'';28
6.2.2;Markova's Frameworks;30
6.2.3;Sociolinguistic Metatheory;36
6.2.4;Conclusion;38
6.2.5;Notes;40
7;Part Two: Paradigms: Disciplinary Matrix Level Sociolinguistic Disciplinary Matrixes;42
7.1;Chapter 3. Dell Hymes and the Ethnography of Communication—Sociolinguistic Relativism;42
7.1.1;Sociolinguistics According to Dell Hymes;42
7.1.2;Sociolinguistic Theory and Linguistic Theory;51
7.1.3;Ethnography of Communication as Linguistic Theory;67
7.1.4;Conclusion;76
7.1.5;Notes;78
7.2;Chapter 4. William Labov and Sociolinguistic Realism;80
7.2.1;Sociolinguistics According to William Labov;80
7.2.2;Sociolinguistic Theory and Linguistic Theory;84
7.2.3;Labovian Sociolinguistics as Linguistic Theory;95
7.2.4;Conclusion;116
7.2.5;Notes;118
7.3;Chapter 5. John Gumperz and Interactional Sociolìnguistics—Intentìonality, Interpretation and Social Meaning;122
7.3.1;Sociolinguistics According to John Gumperz;122
7.3.2;Sociolinguistic Theory and Linguistic Theory;126
7.3.3;Interactional Sociolinguistics as Linguistic Theory;128
7.3.4;Conclusion;150
7.3.5;Notes;152
8;Part Three: Paradigms: The Construct Level;154
8.1;Chapter 6. Sociolìnguistics and Utterance;154
8.1.1;Introduction;154
8.1.2;Sociolinguistics and Utterance;154
8.1.3;Utterance and Linguistic Theory;166
8.1.4;Utterance and Linguistics of Particularity;177
8.1.5;Linguistics of Particularity;181
8.1.6;Notes;184
8.2;Chapter 7. Conclusion;188
8.2.1;Sociolinguistic Disciplinary Matrixes: A Comparison;188
8.2.2;Sociolinguistics Revisited;190
8.2.3;Notes;195
8.3;References;196
9;Index;212