1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452483103321

Autore

Singh Rajendra

Titolo

Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996

ISBN

1-282-16382-5

9786612163821

90-272-9969-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics -- Analysis

Sociolinguistics -- Study and teaching

Sociolinguistics

Philology & Linguistics

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TOWARDS A CRITICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Where Does the Sociolinguistic Variable Stop?; 2 Syntactic Variation and Dialect Divergence; 3 The Autonomy of Social Variables The Indian Evidence Revisited; 4 The Quiet Demise of Variable Rules; 5 The Status of Sociological Models and Categories in Explaining Language Variation; 6 Descriptive and Explanatory Power of Rules in Sociolinguistics

7 Report from an Underdeveloped Country: Toward Linguistic Competence in the United States8 Language Death; 9 Sex Roles, Interruptions and Silences in Conversation; 10 Communication in a Multilingual Society: Some Missed Opportunities; 11 The Political Topography of Spanish and English: The View from a New York Puerto Rican Neighborhood; 12 Language Planning As Discourse; References; Author index; Language index; Subject index; The Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT)series



Sommario/riassunto

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics. It explores, with courage and sensitivity, some very important areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian 'idiolect' and Chomskyan 'UG' in order to situate the hum

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143822803321

Autore

Wormald Patrick

Titolo

The times of Bede [[electronic resource] ] : studies in early English Christian society and its historian / / Patrick Wormald ; edited by Stephen Baxter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-281-30940-0

9786611309404

0-470-69337-1

0-470-69265-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaxterStephen David <1969->

Disciplina

274.2/02

942.015

Soggetti

Monasticism and religious orders - Great Britain - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) - England

Learning and scholarship - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Historiography - Great Britain - History - To 1500

Christian saints - Great Britain

Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 Historiography

Great Britain Church history 449-1066

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bede; Contents; Foreword; Editorial Note; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I An Early Christian Culture and its Critic; 1 Bede and Benedict Biscop; 2 Bede,Beowulf and the Conversion of the Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy; 3 Bede,the Bretwaldas and the Origins of the Gens Anglorum; 4 Bede and the Conversion of England:The Charter Evidence; Part II The Impact of Bede 's Critique; 5 Æthelwold and his Continental Counterparts:Contact, Comparison,Contrast; 6 The Venerable Bede and the 'Church of the English '; 7 How do we know so much about Anglo-Saxon Deerhurst?

8 Corruption,Decline and the 'Real World 'of the early English Church: Aristocrats as AbbotsAppendix Hilda,Saint and Scholar (614 -680); Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by the late Patrick Wormald, one of the leading authorities on Bede's life and work over a 30-year period, this book is a collection of studies on Bede and early English Christian society.A collection of studies on Bede, the greatest historian of the English Middle Ages, and the early English church.Integrates the religious, intellectual, political and social history of the English in their first Christian centuries.Looks at how Bede and other writers charted the establishment of a Christian community within a warrior society.Features the first map of all known or l