31.3266, Books: How We Talk about Language: Rymes

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:54:30
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: How We Talk about Language: Rymes

 


Title: How We Talk about Language 
Subtitle: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/how-we-talk-about-language-exploring-citizen-sociolinguistics?format=PB 


Author: Betsy Rymes

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108488310 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 79.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108488310 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 59.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108488310 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 70.01
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108725965 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108725965 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108725965 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 23.33


Abstract:

The most important challenges humans face - identity, life, death, war, peace,
the fate of our planet - are manifested and debated through language. This
book provides the intellectual and practical tools we need to analyse how
people talk about language, how we can participate in those conversations, and
what we can learn from them about both language and our society.  Along the
way, we learn that knowledge about language and its connection to social life
is not primarily produced and spread by linguists or sociolinguists, or even
language teachers, but through everyday conversations, on-line arguments,
creative insults, music, art, memes, twitter-storms - any place language grabs
people's attention and foments more talk. An essential new aid to the study of
the relationship between language, culture and society, this book provides a
vision for language inquiry by turning our gaze to everyday forms of language
expertise.

Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its
Study; 1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise; 2.
Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language; 3. Doing citizen
sociolinguistics: the medium is the method; 4. Fomenting arrest and
wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops; 5. Citizen
sociolinguistics and narrative; 6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics;
Conclusion: why we must talk about language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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