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9275 results in Sociolinguistics

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  • 8 - Researching Linguistic Landscapes

  • Jeffrey L. Kallen, Trinity College, Dublin
  • Book:
    Linguistic Landscapes
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023, pp 247-302

  • Summary

    This chapter understands the Linguistic Landscape (LL) as a flow of discourse in time. LL units are structured as texts, materials, and discourse, but the LL only unfolds when these units engage the sign instigator and the sign viewer in discourse in the public eye. Using the foodscape as a focal point, the boundaries between the LL and other social practices are examined. A review of LL research methodology examines the role of photographs and the photographer’s point of view, fieldwork approaches that include interviews and reflexive ethnography, and the position of quantitative analysis. The chapter discusses relationships between the material LL and online linguistic landscapes (OLL), examining language displays in the OLL and ways in which users transcend the apparent boundaries between the two. Pointing out the long history of representing the LL in literature, the chapter discusses James Joyce’s Ulysses for its portrayal of the outer forms of the LL and its representation of the inner world of characters who move through the LL. Recommendations are made for further expansion of the field geographically, temporally, materially, and ethnographically.

Meaning, Identity, and Interaction
  • Sociolinguistic Variation and Change in Game-Theoretic Pragmatics
  • Heather Burnett
  • Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023
  • Exciting parallel developments have been made in sociolinguistics and formal semantics, yet these two subfields have had very little contact in the past. This pioneering book bridges this gap, bringing together research and methodologies from both areas of study into a new framework for studying the relation between language, ideologies and the social world. It demonstrates how tools from semantics can be used to formalize theories from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and gender studies, and also shows how tools from epistemic game theory can be used to bring those theories in closer line with empirical studies of sociolinguistic variation and identity construction through language. Engaging and accessible, it highlights how a cross-pollination of ideas in sociolinguistics and semantics can open up a completely new empirical domain of research. It is essential reading for sociolinguists interested in meaning, and semanticists and philosophers interested in language in its social context.

Linguistic Landscapes
  • A Sociolinguistic Approach
  • Jeffrey L. Kallen
  • Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023
  • Visible language is widespread and familiar in everyday life. We find it in shop signs, advertising billboards, street and place name signs, commercial logos and slogans, and visual arts. The field of linguistic landscapes draws on insights from sociolinguistics, language policy and semiotics to show how these public forms of language relate to multiple issues in language policy, language rights, language and education, language and culture, and globalization. Stretching from the earliest stone inscriptions, to posters and street signs, and to today's electronic media, linguistic landscapes sit at the crossroads of language, society, geography, and visual communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book-length synthesis of this exciting, rapidly-developing field. Using photographic evidence from across three continents, it demonstrates the methodology and approaches used, and summarises its findings and developments so far. It also seeks to answer common questions from its critics, and to suggest new directions for further study.

  • 10 - #StatsWithCats

  • Edith Podhovnik
  • Book:
    Purrieties of Language
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023, pp 253-280

  • Summary

    The chapter ’#StatsWithCats’ shows some statistical methods to interpret and visualise the cat-related online data. The selected sociolinguistic variables are the social media platforms and the cat account types. The chapter takes frequencies and crosstabs to describe linguistic variation across four social media platforms and four cat account types. The selected linguistic variables refer to the choices of non-meowlogisms and meowlogisms on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube as well as in collective, for-profit celebrity, working-for-cause, and individual cat accounts. Additionally, the chapter uses social network analysis to illustrate the networks in cat-related digital spaces.

  • 8 - Going on Pawtrol

  • Edith Podhovnik
  • Book:
    Purrieties of Language
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023, pp 199-220

  • Summary

    The chapter ’Going on Pawtrol’ describes how to conduct linguistic research using the cat examples from the original research done for this book. It looks at methodological issues, like research design, research methods, sampling methods, data collection, wordlists, and surveys. The chapter also discusses ethics in relation to the protection of research participants and the research, touching on the laws in place to protect people’s privacy and data and the ethical guidelines established for researchers.

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