[lg policy] book notice: Attitudes to Language: Garrett

[Harold Schiffman]

Attitudes to Language: Garrett
Date: 17-Apr-2010
From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org>

Title: Attitudes to Language
Published: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Peter Garrett

Abstract:

Just about everyone seems to have views about language. Language attitudes
and language ideologies permeate our daily lives. Our competence,
intelligence, friendliness, trustworthiness, social status, group
memberships, and so on, are often judged from the way we communicate. Even
the speed at which we speak can evoke reactions. And we often try to
anticipate such judgements as we communicate. In this lively introduction,
Peter Garrett draws upon research carried out over recent decades in order
to discuss such attitudes and the implications they have for our use of
language, for social advantage or discrimination, and for social identity.
Using a range of examples that includes punctuation, words, grammar,
pronunciation, accents, dialects and languages, this book explores the
intricate and fascinating ways in which language influences our everyday
thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

1. Introduction;
2. Fundamentals of language attitudes;
3. Main approaches to the study of language attitudes;
4. Matched and verbal guise studies: focus on English;
5. Matched and verbal guise research in more contexts;
6. Attitudes to speech styles and other variables: communication features,
speakers, hearers, and contexts;
7. Communication accommodation theory;
8. Language attitudes in professional contexts;
9. Societal treatment studies;
10. Direct approach;
11. Folklinguistics;
12. An integrated programme of language attitudes research;
Conclusion.


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=47488

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