Metalanguage

by Jaworski, Adam; Jaworski, Adam; Coupland, Nikolas; Galasinski, Dariusz; CARDIFF ROUNDTABLE IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1

• ISBN13: 9783110178777
• ISBN10: 311017877X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory, sociolinguistic accounts of language variation, and accounts of linguistic usage. The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage, reflexivity, and metapragmatics, and offers a new, integrating perspective from various fields of sociolinguistics: perceptual dialectology, variationism, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, and social semiotics. The broad range of theoretical issues and accessible style of writing will appeal to advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and in other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities including linguists, communication researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, social psychologists, critical and social theorists. The book includes chapters by Deborah Cameron, Nikolas Coupland, Dariusz Galasiński, Peter Garrett, Adam Jaworski, Tore Kristiansen, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Dennis Preston, Theo van Leeuwen, Kay Richardson, Itesh Sachdev, Angie Williams, and John Wilson.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction
Metalanguage: Why now?	3	(12)
Adam Jaworski
Nikolas Coupland
Dariusz Galasinski
Part 1. Approaches to metalanguage
Introduction to Part 1	11	(4)
Adam Jaworski
Nikolas Coupland
Sociolinguistic perspectives on metalanguage: Reflexivity, evaluation and ideology	15	(38)
Nikolas Coupland
Adam Jaworski
Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language use	53	(22)
Jef Verschueren
Folk metalanguage	75	(32)
Dennis R. Preston
Part 2. Metalanguage and ideological construction
Introduction to Part 2	105	(2)
Adam Jaworski
Nikolas Coupland
Metalanguage in social life	107	(24)
Theo van Leeuwen
Restoring the order: Metalanguage in the press coverage of Princess Diana's Panorama interview	131	(16)
Dariusz Galasinski
Lying, politics and the metalinguistics of truth	147	(20)
John Wilson
Part 3. Metalanguage and social evaluation
Introduction to Part 3	165	(2)
Adam Jaworski
Nikolas Coupland
Social meaning and norm-ideals for speech in a Danish community	167	(26)
Tore Kristiansen
Adolescents' lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs	193	(34)
Peter Garrett
Nikolas Coupland
Angie Williams
Teachers' beliefs about students' talk and silence: Constructing academic success and failure through metapragmatic comments	227	(22)
Adam Jaworski
Itesh Sachdev
Part 4. Metalanguage and stylisation
Introduction to Part 4	247	(2)
Adam Jaworski
Nikolas Coupland
Stylised deception	249	(26)
Nikolas Coupland
Metadiscourses of culture in British TV commercials	275	(14)
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
Retroshopping: Sentiment, sensation and symbolism on the high street	289	(22)
Kay Richardson
Commentary
Out of the bottle: The social life of metalanguage	311	(12)
Deborah Cameron
Index	323