ERIC Number: ED479135
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 520
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ISBN: ISBN-0-631-22717-2
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Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings. Linguistics: The Essential Readings.
Paulston, Christina Bratt, Ed.; Tucker, G. Richard, Ed.
This collection of papers includes the following: (1) "A Brief History of American Sociolinguistics 1949-1989" (Roger W. Shuy); (2) "Reflections on the Origins of Sociolinguistics in Europe" (Louis-Jean Calvet); (3) "Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life" (Dell Hymes); (4) "I Came to Sing: Negotiating Identities and Places in the Tuscan 'Contrasto': (Valentina Pagliai); (5) "Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience" (William Labov and Joshua Waletzky); (6) "'Narrative Analysis' Thirty Years Later" (Emanuel A. Schegloff); (7) "Narrative Structure: Some Contrasts between Maori and Pakeha Story-telling" (Janet Holmes); (8) "Contextualization Conventions" (John J. Gumperz); (9) "The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity" (Roger Brown and Albert Gilman); (10) "Complimenting: A Positive Politeness Strategy" (Janet Holmes); (11) "Selections from 'Language and Woman's Place'" (Robin Lakoff); (12) "The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender Dominance" (Deborah Tannen); (13) "Some Sociolinguistic Principles" (William Labov); (14) "On the Construction of Vernacular Dialect Norms" (Walt Wolfram); (15) "The Linguistic Individual in an American Public-Opinion Survey" (Barbara Johnstone); (16) "Trade Jargons and Creole Dialects as Marginal Languages" (John E. Reinecke); (17) "A Social Psychology of Bilingualism" (Wallace E. Lambert); (18) "BICS and CALP: Origins and Rationale for the Distinction" (Jim Cummins); (19) "Linguistic Diversity, Schooling, and Social Class: Rethinking Our Conception of Language Proficiency in Language Minority Education" (Jeff MacSwan and Kellie Rolstad); (20) "Diglossia" (Charles Ferguson); (21) "Bilingualism With and Without Diglossia; Diglossia With and Without Bilingualism" (Joshua A. Fishman); (22) "Toward the Systematic Study of Diglossia" (Alan Hudson); (23) "Empirical Explorations of Two Popular Assumptions: Inter-Polity Perspective on the Relationship between Linguistic Heterogeneity, Civil Strife, and Per Capita Gross National Product" (Joshua A. Fishman); (24) "Linguistic Minorities and Language Policies" (Christina Bratt Paulston); (25) "Dialect, Language, Nation" (Einar Haugen); (26) "Language Planning Goals: A Classification" (Moshe Nahir); and (27) "Literacy and Language Planning" (Nancy H. Hornberger). (Papers contain references.) (SM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Creoles, Dialects, Diglossia, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Global Approach, Language Minorities, Language Planning, Language Proficiency, Language Usage, Literacy Education, Minority Group Children, Multilingualism, Oral Language, Personal Narratives, Pidgins, Pragmatics, Pronouns, Public Opinion, Sex Discrimination, Social Class, Sociolinguistics, Story Telling, Student Diversity
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Language: English
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