Meaning, Identity, and Interaction - Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in Game-Theoretic Pragmatics

"Bringing together research from both sociolinguistics and semantics, this pioneering book presents a new framework for studying the relation between language, ideologies and the social world. It is essential reading for sociolinguists interested in meaning, and semanticists and philosophers interested in language in its social context"--

List of contents

1. A formal semantics for social meaning; 2. Formalizing the third wave; 3. Testing sociolinguistic theories using game-theoretic pragmatics; 4. A materialist semantics for slurs and identity terms; 5. Socially driven language change in game-theoretic pragmatics; Conclusion.

About the author

Heather Burnett is a Senior Research Scientist at Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France. Notable publications include Gradability in Natural Language (2016).

Summary

Bringing together research from both sociolinguistics and semantics, this pioneering book presents a new framework for studying the relation between language, ideologies and the social world. It is essential reading for sociolinguists interested in meaning, and semanticists and philosophers interested in language in its social context.

Foreword

Drawing on cutting-edge research, this book shows how tools from formal semantics can be used to formalize theories from sociolinguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Burnett, Heather (Cnrs-Universite Paris Diderot) Burnett, Burnett Heather
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781108841641
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84164-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Studies in Language Variation and Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc