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SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
SOCIOLINGUISTICS The branch of knowledge which studies...of the major advances of modern sociolinguistics has been the introduction of quantitative...their dialects. Language planning Sociolinguistics can be concerned with observing...
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sociolinguistics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sociolinguistics the study of language as it affects and is affected by social relations. Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns...Bibliography: See R. A. Hudson, Sociolinguistics (1980); P. Trudgill, Dialects...
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Meaning
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...perspective derives from a variety of 1960s theoretical innovations, including symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, ethnomethodology, structuralism, social movement theory, pragmatics, and social...
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LECT
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
LECT. A term in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for a speech variety; it is used relatively little on its own but often occurs in combination, as in idiolect . See ACROLECT , BASILECT , DIALECT , ENGLISH , GRAMMATICALITY , IDIOLECT , MESOLECT , PRIVATE LANGUAGE , SOCIOLECT .
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REGISTER
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
REGISTER. In SOCIOLINGUISTICS and STYLISTICS , a VARIETY of language defined according to social use, such as scientific, formal, religious, and journalistic...
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CODE-MIXING AND CODE-SWITCHING
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CODE-MIXING AND CODE-SWITCHING. Terms in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for language and especially speech that draws to differing extents on at least two languages combined in different ways, as when...
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CONTACT LANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
CONTACT LANGUAGE. In SOCIOLINGUISTICS , a simplified variety of language that develops in situations where most speakers have no common language, such as ports, trading...
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Uriel Weinreich
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Weinreich taught linguistics at Columbia (1951-67) and is noted for his contributions to Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics , dialectology, and for the increased acceptance of semantics as a branch of linguistics. His dissertation (1951...
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Teacher Learning Communities
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...been used by Stanley Fish and other theorists to refer to a network of people with similar meaning perspectives. In sociolinguistics, "speech community" has been used by Dell Hymes, John Gumperz, and other linguistic anthropo
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Conversational Analysis
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...convergence of Harold Garfinkel ’ s ethnomethodology, Erving Goffman ’ s interactionism, and sociolinguistics. Beginning with Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, Gail Jefferson, and Anita Pomerantz in the 1960s, CA has become...
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