Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452483103321
• Autore: Singh Rajendra
• 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