How We Talk about Language

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'In this volume, Betsy Rymes captures the advances that must be attained to democratize language use and communication: reconfigure speakers' expertise, reinforce speakers' agency, and create epistemic communities, in which language researchers and citizens participate to foreground local forms of expertise and to build common ground production of linguistic concepts, and ideologies.' Luisa Martin Rojo, Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 'This book is for all people who care about language and are interested in it. It is definitely not intended for trained linguists only. Reading this book has been a pleasurable and worthwhile experience, and I heartily recommend it to everyone even remotely interested in the way we talk and to those who want to learn more about how to talk about language.' Marijana Javornik Cubric, LINGUIST List 'This is an extremely useful call to think new and to try to go to the roots of how to democratise our understandings of how we talk about language from a participatory, dialoguing and non-authoritative sociolinguistics perspective. Indeed, an invitation worth considering, for anyone to become not only a citizen but a citizen sociolinguist actor.' Maria Sabate-Dalmau, Language in Society