Attitudes to Language

Informationen zum Autor Peter Garrett is Professor of Language and Communication at the Cardiff University Centre for Language and Communication Research. His recent publications include Investigating Language Attitudes: Social Meanings of Dialect, Ethnicity and Performance (with Coupland and Williams, 2003). Klappentext This lively introduction discusses language attitudes and their implications for our use of language. Zusammenfassung Everyone appears to have an opinion about language! and these attitudes permeate our daily lives. Using a range of examples this lively introduction explores the intricate and fascinating ways in which language influences our everyday thoughts! feelings and behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Garrett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521766043
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76604-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics; Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics