Signs of Difference - Language and Ideology in Social Life

An important study of how signs and sign relations create social and linguistic differences - and unities.

List of contents

Prologue: questions and exhibits; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Ethnography: 1. Wolof in Senegal; 2. German-Hungarians in Hungary; Part II. Semiotics: 3. Ingredients: signs, conjectures, perspectives; 4. Comparison: the semiotics of differentiation; 5. Dynamics of change in differentiation; Part III. Sites: 6. Situating ideological work; 7. Among and between sites; 8. Scales and scale-making: connecting sites; Part IV. Pasts: 9. Library to field: ideologies in nineteenth-century linguistic research; Coda: avenues of inquiry.

About the author

Susan Gal is Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago. She is author of Language Shift (1979) and The Politics of Language (in Hungarian, 2018), as well as co-author with Gail Kligman of Politics of Gender after Socialism (2000) and co-editor with Kathryn Woolard of Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority (2001).Judith T. Irvine is Edward Sapir Collegiate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of many articles and chapters in linguistic anthropology, she is co-editor with Jane H. Hill of Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse (1993); co-editor with Regna Darnell et al. of the Collected Works of Edward Sapir (1999) and Associate Editor of the journal Language in Society.

Summary

How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? Written by two recognised authorities on language and culture, this book asks how differences in language and in social life are made (and unmade), and how we should interpret them.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Gal, Susan (University of Chicago) Gal, Susan (University of Chicago) Irvine Gal, Gal Susan, Judith Irvine, Judith T. Irvine, Judith T. (University of Michigan Irvine, Irvine Judith T.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108741293
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74129-3
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology