34.29, Books: The Social Life of Words: Wright

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Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:22:12
From: Aleksandra Tasic [atasic at wiley.com]
Subject: The Social Life of Words: Wright

 


Title: The Social Life of Words 
Subtitle: A Historical Approach 
Series Title: Language in Society  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Wiley
	   http://www.wiley.com
	

Book URL: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Social+Life+of+Words%3A+A+Historical+Approach-p-9781119881032 


Author: Laura Wright

Electronic: ISBN:  9781119881056 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 36.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781119881032 Pages: 224 Price: U.S. $ 44.95


Abstract:

A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social
meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining
demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis

The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of
the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social
connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text
matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to
discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social
factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and
criminality are discussed in British and American English.

>From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like
burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade,
slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a
new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible
chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts
such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and
enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language
regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look
at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words:

Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the
lexicon
Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own
analyses of words in English and other languages
Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting
students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for
themselves
Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social
Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students,
graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in
sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and
development of modern English.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=166553




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