Lectures Against Sociolinguistics exposes the very serious limitations of sociolinguistics as we know it. Its twelve lectures critically examine the standard sociolinguistic ways of exploring several intersections of human linguisticality and sociality (variability, inter-ethnic and cross-sex communication, language-contact, and 'native'/'non-native' speech, etc.). In addition, this book outlines a linguistically and sociologically less naive sociolinguistics.
Dr. Singh argues against correlationism and disguised culturism as sociolinguistics, and invites the next generation of linguists and sociolinguists to undertake a more responsible and meaningful study of the intersection of human linguisticality and sociality.
| ISBN: | 9780820430973 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 1997 |
| Author: | Rajendra Singh |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 180 pages |
| Genres: |
Language: history and general works Sociolinguistics Dialect, slang and jargon Communication studies Cultural studies: customs and traditions |
Lectures Against Sociolinguistics exposes the very serious limitations of sociolinguistics as we know it. Its twelve lectures critically examine the standard sociolinguistic ways of exploring several intersections of human linguisticality and sociality (variability, inter-ethnic and cross-sex communication, language-contact, and 'native'/'non-native' speech, etc.).
Lectures Against Sociolingustics features in the following genres: Language: history and general works, Sociolinguistics, Dialect, slang and jargon, Communication studies, Cultural studies: customs and traditions
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Lectures Against Sociolingustics was written by Rajendra Singh and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Lectures Against Sociolingustics has 180 pages