The Language , Society and Power Reader (Paperback)

Section 1: Language and Power  1.1 David Crystal, How to look after Languages: recognizing functions and How to look after languages: recognizing varieties  1.2 Norman Fairclough, Global capitalism and critical awareness of language  Section 2: Language and Thought  2.1 Geoffrey Pullum, The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax  2.2 Benjamin Lee Whorf, The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behaviour to Language  2.3 John Lucy, Through the Window of Language: Assessing the Influence of Language Diversity on Thought  Section 3: Language and Politics  3.1 Geoffrey Nunberg, Media: Label whores  3.2 Naima Boussofara-Omar, Learning the ‘linguistic habitus’ of a politician: A presidential authoritative voice in the making  3.3 Anne-Marie Simon-Vanedbergen, Peter R R White and Karin Aijmer, Propositions and 'taking-for-granted' in mass communicated political argument: an illustration from British, Flemish and Swedish political colloquy  Section 4: Language and Media  4.1 Anthea Irwin, Race and Ethnicity in the Media  4.2 Laura Miller, Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slang, and Media Assessments  4.3 Joanna Thornborrow, Authenticating Talk: Building Public Identities in Audience Participation Broadcasting  Section 5: Language and Gender  5.1 Anne Pauwels, Linguistic sexism and feminist linguistic activism  5.2 Mary Talbot, ‘I wish you'd stop interrupting me!' Interruptions and asymmetries in speaker-rights in 'equal encounters'  5.3 Deborah Cameron, Performing gender identity: Young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity  Section 6: Ethnicity  6.1 Teun A. van Dijk, Racist Discourse  6.2 Diana Eades, Telling and Retelling Your Story in Court: Questions, Assumptions and Intercultural Implications  Section 7: Language and Age  7.1 Sinfree Makoni and Karen Grainger, Comparative Gerontolinguistics: Characterizing Discourses in Caring Institutions in South Africa and the United Kingdom  7.2 Penelope Eckert, Adolescent Language  Section 8: Language and Social Class  8.1 Paul Kerswill, Mobility, meritocracy and dialect levelling: the fading (and phasing) out of Received Pronunciation  8.2 William Labov, Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence  8.3 Michael Gos, Overcoming social class markers: preparing working class students for college  Section 9: Language and Identity  9.1 Penelope Eckert, The meaning of style  9.2 John Olsson, The Man with the Baseball Bat  9.3 Audrei Gesser, Learning about Hearing People in the Land of the Deaf: An Ethnographic Account  Section 10: Standard Englishes  10.1 Jacqueline Lam Kam-Mei, Asia’s Englishes and World Englishes: Interview with Braj B Kachru  10.2 B. E. Evans, English as official state language in Ohio: market forces trump ideology  10.3 Jennifer Jenkins, English as a lingua franca: interpretations and attitudes