Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An ethnographic approach

by Hymes,Dell; Hymes,Dell

• ISBN13: 9780415263962
• ISBN10: 0415263964
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sociolinguistics is conceived here as a fundamental critical perspective on the whole of the study of language. The scientific problems within present linguistics, the book contends, combine with social problems of the society in which linguists participate to press linguistics to discover ethnographic foundations. The work of providing such foundations largely remains to be done.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Toward Ethnographies of Communication	p. 1
Toward ethnographies of communication	p. 3
Studying the interaction of language and social life	p. 29
The Status of Linguistics as a Science	p. 67
Why linguistics needs the sociologist	p. 69
Social anthropology, sociolinguistics, and the ethnography of speaking	p. 83
Bilingual education: linguistic vs. sociolinguistic bases	p. 119
The contribution of folklore to sociolinguistic research	p. 125
The contribution of poetics to sociolinguistic research	p. 135
Linguistics as Sociolinguistics	p. 143
Linguistic theory and functions in speech	p. 145
Syntactic arguments and social roles: Quantifiers, Keys, and Reciprocal vs. Reflexive Relationships	p. 179
The scope of sociolinguistics	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 210
Index	p. 233
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