Betsy Rymes

How We Talk about Language

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on examples of conversation, social media and daily news, Rymes illustrates how knowledge about language and its social value spreads through everyday language debates. A lively account of how we talk about language, it will be an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781108488310
• ISBN-10: 1108488315
• Artikelnr.: 59991738

Autorenporträt

Betsy Rymes is Professor of Educational Linguistics at The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its Study
1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise
2. Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language
3. Doing citizen sociolinguistics: the medium is the method
4. Fomenting arrest and wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops
5. Citizen sociolinguistics and narrative
6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics
Conclusion: why we must talk about language.