Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics: 125 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027236283 ISBN 13: 9789027236289

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1996

Synopsis

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics. It explores, with courage and sensitivity, some very important areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian 'idiolect' and Chomskyan 'UG' in order to situate the human linguistic enterprise, and offers valuable insights into human linguisticality and sociality. These explorations expose the limits of correlationism, determinism, and positivistic reificationism, and offer new ways of doing sociolinguistics. Intended for both practicing and future sociolinguists, it is an ideal text-book for the times, particularly for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

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Synopsis

This collection of 12 essays by European and North-American sociolinguists offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics. It explores some areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian "idiolect" and Chomskyan "UG" in order to situate the human linguistic enterprise, and offers valuable insights into human linguisticality and sociality. Intended for both practising and future sociolinguists, it can be used as a textbook, particularly for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027236283
• ISBN 13: 9789027236289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Singh Rajendra