The Oxford handbook of language and society / edited by Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, and Massimiliano Spotti.

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Book
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English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
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xx, 562 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

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    Summary note
    This book challenges basic concepts that have informed the study of sociolinguistics since its inception in the 1960s. It challenges the modernist positivist perspective of the field that has treated languages and speech communities as bounded and the idealized native speaker as the ultimate authority. In its place it proposes a critical poststructuralist perspective that examines the socio-historical context that led to the emergence of dominant sociolinguistic concepts and develops new theoretical and methodological tools that challenge these dominant concepts. The contributors to this volume take this critical poststructuralist perspective as a starting point for engaging in explorations of a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes, and multimodality. Each of the contributors provides a critical overview of the limits of modernist positivist perspectives on his or her topic and offers ways of theorizing and researching the topic in ways that are aligned with a critical poststructuralist perspective. The book also provides a global perspective on these issues, with contributors focused on North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. Together, the interdisciplinary and global contributions reveal the limits of conventional approaches to sociolinguistics and offer a glimpse into directions for the future of the field.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Bi-multilingualism, globalization and super-diversity
    • Sociolinguistic repertoire / Massimiliano Spotti, Jan Blommaert
    • Language shift and sustainability: Critical discourses and beyond / Mel M. Engman, Kendall A. King
    • Language and political economy / Alfonso Del Percio, Mi-cha Flubacher, Alexandre Duchêne
    • Linguistic landscapes / Mieke Vandenbrouke, Luk Van Mensel, Robert Blackwood
    • Indigenous peoples and their languages / Pia Lane, Miki Makihara
    • The Internet, language and virtual interactions / Piia Varis, Tom van Nuenen
    • Mediatization and the language of journalism / Tom van Hout, Peter Burger
    • Language and society: Historical overview and emergence of a field of study / Florian Coulmas
    • Language policy and local practices / Alastair Pennycook
    • Language, imperialism and the modern nation-state system: Implications for language rights / Stephen May
    • Linguistic profiling and discrimination / John Baugh
    • Language ideologies / Jonathan Rosa, Christa Burdick
    • Discourses of endangerment from mother tongues to machine / Robert Moore
    • Language and sexuality / Tomasso M. Milani
    • Language and power / Luisa Martín Rojo
    • From Gerontolinguistics to Elderspeak: Sociolinguistic myths / Sinfree B. Makoni
    • Multiliteracies & Transcultural Education / Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
    • Introduction: Language and Society: A critical poststructuralist perspective / Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, Massimiliano Spotti
    • Conclusion: Moving the study of Language and Society into the future / Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, Massimiliano Spotti
    • Multimodality / Elisabetta Adami
    • Entry Visa Denied: The Construction of Symbolic Language Borders in Educational Settings / Guadalupe Valdés
    • Language, migration, diaspora: Challenging the big battalions of groupism / Finex Ndhlovu
    • Bilingual Education / Nelson Flores
    • Diglossia and beyond
    • Jürgen Jaspers
    • Sign languages / H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Joseph J. Murray
    • Language and racialization / Anne H. Charity Hudley
    • Work / Melissa G. Moyer.
    ISBN
    • 0190212896 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9780190212896 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016019834
    OCLC
    964291142
    Other standard number
    • 40026642286
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