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How We Talk About Language - Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics

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Drawing on examples of conversation, social media and daily news, Rymes illustrates how knowledge about language and its social value spreads through everyday language debates. A lively account of how we talk about language, it will be an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

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Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its Study; 1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise; 2. Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language; 3. Doing citizen sociolinguistics: the medium is the method; 4. Fomenting arrest and wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops; 5. Citizen sociolinguistics and narrative; 6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics; Conclusion: why we must talk about language.

About the author

Betsy Rymes is Professor of Educational Linguistics at The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

Summary

The most important challenges humans face - identity, life, death, war, peace, the fate of our planet - are manifested and debated through language. This book provides the intellectual and practical tools we need to analyse how people talk about language, how we can participate in those conversations, and what we can learn from them about both language and our society. Along the way, we learn that knowledge about language and its connection to social life is not primarily produced and spread by linguists or sociolinguists, or even language teachers, but through everyday conversations, on-line arguments, creative insults, music, art, memes, twitter-storms - any place language grabs people's attention and foments more talk. An essential new aid to the study of the relationship between language, culture and society, this book provides a vision for language inquiry by turning our gaze to everyday forms of language expertise.

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‘In this volume, Betsy Rymes captures the advances that must be attained to democratize language use and communication: reconfigure speakers’ expertise, reinforce speakers’ agency, and create epistemic communities, in which language researchers and citizens participate to foreground local forms of expertise and to build common ground production of linguistic concepts, and ideologies.’ Luisa Martin Rojo, Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Product details

Authors Rymes Betsy Rymes, Betsy Rymes, Betsy (University of Pennsylvania) Rymes, Rymes Betsy
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.11.2020
 
EAN 9781108725965
ISBN 978-1-108-72596-5
No. of pages 250
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics

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