Speech Communities

Speech Communities presents the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups.

List of contents

1. What are speech communities?; 2. Representing speech communities; 3. Constructing speech communities; 4. The African-American speech community; 5. Youth communities: the hip-hop nation; 6. Voice and empowerment in gender and sexuality; 7. Online speech communities; 8. Language in and out of the classroom; 9. Performance and play in speech communities; 10. Power, ideology and prejudice.

About the author

Marcyliena Morgan is Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University.

Report

'This is the book we were waiting for. An informed and innovative introduction that makes us appreciate speech communities as sites for socialization, contestation, and creativity. We come away with a much better understanding of the authority of standard languages, the creativity of marginalized speech styles, and the attraction of new forms of digital literacy. A great resource for teaching and thinking critically about the power of language as well as its limitations.' Alessandro Duranti, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Product details

• Authors: Marcyliena Morgan, Marcyliena H Morgan, Marcyliena H. Morgan, Marcyliena H. (Harvard University Morgan, Morgan Marcyliena H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107678149
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67814-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics; Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology; Key Topics in Linguistic Anthr; Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology