Towards a Social Science of Language
Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 2: Social interaction and discourse structures
Published on 23. May 1997
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-1-55619-582-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic dynamics of variation and change (II). The study of African American English, and other language varieties in the Americas spoken by people of African descent and influenced by their linguistic heritage, is the subject of the papers in section III of the first volume. The third theme is the study of discourse; the papers in section I of the second volume develop themes in Labovian linguistics that go back to Labov's work on narrative, descriptive, and therapeutic discourse. Fourth is the emphasis on language use, the search for discursive, interactive, and meaningful determinants of the complexity in human communication. Papers with these themes appear in section II of the second volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-582-2 (9781556195822)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Foreword; 3. I. Social Interaction and discourse structures; 4. Discourse analysis, structuralism, and the description of social practice (by Linde, Charlotte); 5. Third Turn repair (by Schegloff, Emanuel A.); 6. The transformation of experience, identity, and context (by Schiffrin, Deborah); 7. Deliberative action constructs: Reference and evaluation in Narrative (by Bower, Anne R.); 8. byplay: Negotiation evaluation in storytelling (by Goodwin, Marjorie H.); 9. An empirical study of textual structure: horse race calls (by Horvath, Barbara M.); 10. Discourse clues to coded language in an impeachment hearing (by Shuy, Roger W.); 11. The Incongruity of jokes, riddles and humorous situations (by Weiner, E. Judith); 12. Discourse enumerators and Schegloff's denominator (by Dubois, Sylvie); 13. On the interactional bases of speech community membership (by Gumperz, John J.); 14. II. Language in use: Syntactic and lexical variation; 15. On focusing sentences in brazilian Portuguese (by Oliviera, Marco Antonio de); 16. On kind-sentences, resumptive pronouns, and relative clauses (by Prince, Ellen F.); 17. Viewpoint, sequencing, and pronoun usage in Javanese short stories (by Myhill, John); 18. Patterns of incorporation of lexemes in language contact: Language typology or sociolinguistics? (by Boyd, Sally); 19. The sociolinguistics dynamics of apparent convergence (by Poplack, Shana); 20. Varbrul and the human/inanimate polarization of the Swahili object marker (by Wald, Benji); 21. Bibliography; 22. Index