Language, Society, and New Media : Sociolinguistics Today (Paperback, 2 New edition)

Preface

Features

Rapid Overview

Illustrations

1.1 Language

1.1.1 Features

1.1.2 Acquiring Language

1.2 Sociolinguistics

1.2.1 Historical Roots

1.2.2 Subdivisions

1.2.3 Linguistic Anthropology

1.3 Methodology

1.3.1 Interviews

1.3.2 Fieldwork

1.3.3 Ethnography

1.3.4 Statistics

1.4 Sociolinguistics in Practice

1.4.1 Language Use

1.4.2 Personality

1.4.3 Geographical Variation

1.4.4 Social Variation

1.4.5 Bilingualism

1.4.6 Speech Communities

1.4.7 Sociolinguistics and New Media

2.1 Vocabulary

2.1.1 The Lexicon

2.1.2 Groups and Vocabulary

2.1.3 Semantics

2.1.4 Contextualized Meaning

2.2 Figurative Language

2.2.1 Connecting Concepts

2.2.2 Figurative Language and Society

2.3 Grammar

2.3.1 Morphology

2.3.2 Syntax

2.4 Phonology

2.4.1 Phonology and Society

2.4.2 Netlingo

3.1 Dialects

3.1.1 Dialect Atlases

3.1.2 Pidgins and Creoles

3.1.3 Lingua Francas

3.2 Diglossia, Bilingualism, and Multilingualism

3.2.1 Diglossia

3.2.2 Bilingualism and Multilingualism

3.2.3 Code-Switching

3.3 Languages in Contact

3.3.1 Borrowing

3.3.2 Nativization

3.4 Standard Languages and Literacy

3.4.1 Language Loyalty

3.4.2 Language Planning

3.4.3 Literacy

3.4.4 Twitteracy

4.1 Sociolects

4.1.1 Slang

4.1.2 Jargon

4.2 Register

4.2.1 Formality

4.2.3 Politeness

4.2.3 Honorifics

4.3 Style and Genre

4.3.1 Style

4.3.2 Genre

4.4 Social Variables

4.4.1 Class

4.4.2 Race and Ethnicity

4.4.3 Twitterlects

5. Language, Personality, and Identity

5.1 Personality

5.1.1 Age

5.1.2 Bilingualism and Personality

5.2 Identity

5.2.1 Theories

5.2.2 Linguistic Identity

5.3 Names

5.3.1 The Social Functions of Names

5.3.2 Nicknames

5.4 Online Identities

5.4.1 Identity Construction

5.4.2 Twin Identities

6.1 Conversation

6.1.1 Conversation Analysis

6.1.2 Grice’s Maxims

6.1.3 Speech Acts

6.2 Communicative Competence

6.2.1 Modeling Communicative Competence

6.2.2 Speech Functions

6.2.3 Politeness: A Case-in-Point

6.3 Discourse and Dialogue

6.3.1 Discourse

6.3.2 Ritualistic Discourse

6.3.3 Critical Discourse

6.3.4 Dialogue

6.3.5 Online Discourse

6.4 Body Language

6.4.1 Kinesics and Proxemics

6.4.2 Gesture and Gesticulation

6.4.3 Facial Expression

7.1 Writing Systems

7.1.1 Pictography and Alphabets

7.1.2 Writing and Society

7.1.3 Stylometry

7.2 Compressive Writing

7.2.1 Social Implications

7.2.2 Zipf’s Law

7.3 Literacy Practices

7.3.1 Myth and Narrative

7.3.2 New Literacies

7.4 International Writing Systems

7.4.1 Artificial Systems

7.4.2 Emoji Writing

8. Language, Mind, Culture, and Technology

8.1 Classification

8.1.1 The Lexicon

8.1.2 Concepts

8.2 The Whorfian Hypothesis

8.2.1 Language and Thought

8.2.2 Specialized Vocabularies

8.3 Ethnosemantics

8.3.1 Componential Analysis

8.3.2 Schemas

8.4 Cyberspace,

8.4.1 Technologically Blended Cognition

8.4.2 Communal Brain

9. Language, Media, and Social Evolution

9.1 Language in Motion

9.1.1 Evolutionary Tendencies

9.1.2 Language Change and Virtual Communities

9.2 Mediation

9.2.1 Types of Media

9.2.2 Emergence

9.3 Communicative Competence Again

9.3.1 Conversation Analysis Revisited

9.3.2 Social Media

9.4 How to Speak to an Alien

Exercises and Discussions

Appendices

A: The International Phonetic Alphabet

B: A Brief Lesson in Basic Statistics

C: Koasati Phonemes and Alphabet

D: English Vowels

Glossary

References

Index