Why Do Linguistics?
Reflective Linguistics and the Study of Language
(Sprache: Englisch)
What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is...
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What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is about noticing. It is about encouraging readers to pay attention to the language that surrounds them. The book addresses fundamental linguistic questions such as: Where do people's beliefs about language come from? Who decides what language we should speak? How do we choose the best way to express what we mean? It introduces a set of practical tools for language analysis and, using examples of authentic communicative activity including overheard conversations, Facebook posts and public announcements, shows how this kind of analysis works and what it can tell us about social interaction.Exploring language and language use from a social, intercultural and multilingual perspective, the authors demonstrate the relevance of linguistics in understanding day-to-day interaction. This book will help readers not only to become informed, active observers of language for its own sake, but also to be able to take on and challenge some of the misconceptions, assumptions and prejudices that so often underlie public discussion of language issues.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Why Do Linguistics? “
Authors' AcknowledgementsPublisher's AcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionPart IIntroduction to Part I - Reflective Linguistics1. About Noticing: Becoming a linguistic ethnographer2. About Correctness : What is good language?3. About Belonging : How does language enact community? 4. About Diversity : How do societies organise language?5. About Difference : Do all languages work the same way?Part IIIntroduction to Part II - The Study of Language6. Essential Linguistic Tools7. A Framework for Analysis8. Speaking and Spokenness9. Writing and Writtenness10. Choosing our WordsPart IIIIntroduction to Part III - Why Do Linguistics?11. Translanguaging : When the mixed code is the code12. Myths and Moral Panics? : Linguistics and the public domain13. The Subject That Isn't a Subject : Language at school14. Communicating At The Sharp Edge : Linguistics and the workplace15. So, Why Do Linguistics?ReferencesIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Fiona English, Tim Marr
Fiona English is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Multimodal Research, Department of Culture, Media and Communication, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Tim Marr is a Visiting Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Educational Research and Services, Pontificia Universidad Cat lica del Per , Lima, Peru
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Fiona English , Tim Marr
- 2015, 304 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 1441166092
- ISBN-13: 9781441166098
Sprache:
Englisch
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