31.1885, Books: Signs of Difference: Gal, Irvine

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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:09:34
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Signs of Difference: Gal, Irvine

 


Title: Signs of Difference 
Subtitle: Language and Ideology in Social Life 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/signs-difference-language-and-ideology-social-life?format=HB 


Author: Susan Gal
Author: Judith T. Irvine

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108650762 Pages: 326 Price: U.S. $ 20.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108491891 Pages: 326 Price: U.S. $ 89.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108741293 Pages: 326 Price: U.S. $ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108741293 Pages: 326 Price: U.K. £ 19.99


Abstract:

How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles
shaped by their social positions and values? How is difference, in language
and in social life, made - and unmade? How and why are some differences
persuasive as the basis for action, while other differences are ignored or
erased? Written by two recognised authorities on language and culture, this
book argues that ideological work of all kinds is fundamentally communicative,
and that social positions, projects and historical moments influence, and are
influenced by, people's ideas about communicative practices. Neither true nor
false, ideologies are positioned and partial visions of the world, relying on
comparison and perspective; they exploit differences in expressive features -
linguistic and otherwise - to construct convincing stereotypes of people,
spaces and activities. Using detailed ethnographic, historical and
contemporary examples, this outstanding book shows readers how to analyse
ideological work semiotically.

Prologue: questions and exhibits
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Ethnography:
1. Wolof in Senegal
2. German-Hungarians in Hungary
Part II. Semiotics:
3. Ingredients: signs, conjectures, perspectives
4. Comparison: the semiotics of differentiation
5. Dynamics of change in differentiation
Part III. Sites:
6. Situating ideological work
7. Among and between sites
8. Scales and scale-making: connecting sites
Part IV. Pasts:
9. Library to field: ideologies in nineteenth-century linguistic research
Coda: avenues of inquiry.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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