Stance sociolinguistic perspectives pdf

This book is a collection of nine essays organized around the topic of stance from a sociolinguistic perspective. Lancaster university department of linguistics and english language lancaster university lancaster la1 4yl england g. Sociolinguistic perspectives, 2009 online research. Pdf on aug 1, 2012, paul kockelman and others published stance.

Pdf social class and language mohammed umar academia. Although formal semantics pragmatics has become increasingly informed by psycholinguistic research in the past 15 years, it is only extremely recently that classic sociolinguistic topics such as stance and identity construction have begun to be investigated from a formal perspective smith et al. The study provides three examples of different forms of egyptian public discourse related directly to identity that took place during the 2011 revolution of egypt, a time when state tv media stations cast doubt on the identity of the protestors by utilizing linguistic resources. Ronald wardhaugh introduction to sociolinguistics fifth edition 5. I argue that kdoes not encode any feature of event structure, but rather signals the speakers epistemic primacy over the addressee. Sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe investigating variation. This chapter situates the study of stance within major currents of sociolinguistic inquiry, including such topics as footing and framing, style and stylization, language ideologies, performance, and indexicality. Department of anthropology, barnard college, columbia university, 3009 broadway, new york, ny 10027. John clark and colin yallopan introduction to phonetics and phonology second edition 10. Using clips from the channel 4 television programme benefits street we conducted focus groups in four locations across the united kingdom, working with people from different socioeconomic backgrounds who had different experiences with the benefits system. Solidarity, stance, and class identities language in. Nikolas coupland adam jaworski cardiff universityrecentl. Stances as the explanation for patterns of sociolinguistic variation.

The sociolinguistics study of gender address patterns in. This authority may relate to concrete perceptual factors in the field of discourse, or to. Stance sociolinguistic perspectives alexandra jaffe oxford studies in sociolinguistics. Stancetakingor speaker positioningis central to communication. Abstractmurrinhpatha, an aboriginal language of northern australia, has an initial kalternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis. Reviewed by greg myers the term stance has been used by many linguists in the last twenty years, but it soon becomes clear in scanning any bibliography of the topic that there are different stances on stance. Oxford university press, 2009 find, read and cite all the research.

In all three cases, linguistic variation and code choice are mediated not only through linguistic and sociolinguistic variables, but through an ideological process in which talk about language is at times as significant as linguistic choices. Sociolinguistic perspective on teaching english intonation. The study of style in sociolinguistic variation has had renewed interest in recent years. It argues that stance is the basis of style in sociolinguistic variation. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and formal perspectives on. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and formal perspectives on meaning. Michael kenstowicz phonology in generative grammar 8. The analyses also focus on how speakers deploy and take up stances visavis sociolinguistic variables and the critical role of stance in the processes of indexicalization. The study of stance in the contemporary literature is wideranging and quite heterogeneous see englebretson 2007, and has a robust history in a number of analytic traditions, ranging from corpuslinguistic treatments of authorial stance as connected to particular academic genres, to critical discourse analyses of embedded stances in political. Linguistic variation is at the heart of the concept of linguistic stylewithout variation there is no basis for distinguishing social meanings. Stancetaking is viewed as a social action that shares the speakers view of an. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, all communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional and social. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical texts, naturally occurring conversation, classroom interaction and. Sociolinguistics is the study of the connection between language and society and the way people use language in different social situations.

Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies in sociolinguistics. When a speaker describes an object in a way that expresses their attitude or relation to the object, the speaker is taking a stance. In this study, i explore three cases related to linguistic variation and the individual in the egyptian sociopolitical context. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours. Sociolinguistic perspectives all communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional, and. Sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe. Stance hardcover alexandra jaffe oxford university press. Stance sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies. Rationale the notion of stance and stancetaking has been increasingly appealed to as the motivations for patterns of language use found in discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistic variation. The sociolinguistic approach has examined languages in contact in bilingual or migrant communities and concerns itself with the social and political motivations for its use. Variation can occur syntactically, lexically, and phonologically. Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an. Gender, interaction, and indexicality in mexican immigrant youth slang in stance.

Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. It proposes that stance based sociolinguistic analysis 1 situates linguistic acts of stance within the sociocultural matrices that give stances their social meanings. As the editor broadly frames it, stancetaking involves taking up a position with respect to the form or the content of ones utterance p. Stance by alexandra jaffe overdrive rakuten overdrive. Subjects architecture and design arts asian and pacific studies business and economics chemistry classical and ancient near eastern studies computer sciences cultural studies engineering general interest geosciences history industrial chemistry islamic and middle eastern studies jewish studies law library and information science, book studies life sciences linguistics and semiotics literary. It ranges greatly in depth and detail, from the study of dialects across. This collected volume explores stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, looking at how speakers use language to position themselves and others and exploring how speakers and writers make.

Jun 04, 2009 the analyses also focus on how speakers deploy and take up stances visavis sociolinguistic variables and the critical role of stance in the processes of indexicalization. More recently 8, 9 has compared gender differences in language as more similar to cultural difference cultural difference approach. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Macedo ma tefltesl program university of birmingham, england module 6 may 31st 2001. The sociolinguistics study of gender address patterns in the. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures. Sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe article pdf available in journal of linguistic anthropology 222 august 2012 with 110 reads how we measure reads. The pragmatics of politeness hmj sastra arab uns qismu. Social boundaries, selflamination, and metalinguistic anxiety in white kenyan narratives about the african occult, in stance. In this context, social meanings can include group membership, personal attributes, or beliefs. The dominant perspectives in the study of codeswitching have been either sociolinguistic or grammatical in nature.

All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visa vis the. This book brings together contributions in a new and dynamic current of academic explorations of stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. Stance, style, and the linguistic individual, barbara johnstone 3. Prosodic features of stance strength and polarity valerie freeman indiana university lsa annual meeting. Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies in sociolinguistics reprint edition by alexandra jaffe author 4. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and formal perspectives. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Stance, for example, has been shrunk to a focus on selfmention and expanded to include all expressions of personal opinion, whereas voice has been regarded as a key marker of individuality and. Introduction hose who have ever tried to read something of an academic character about the role of culture and language, would hardly deny the deep rooted and. Affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction. In linguistics, stance is the way in which speakers position themselves in relation to the ongoing interaction, in terms of evaluation, intentionality, epistemology or social relations. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical.

All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional, and social implications of their speech. Sociolinguistic perspectives alexandra jaffe print publication date. It asks the question, how does language affect the social nature of human beings, and how does social interaction shape language. Lancaster university department of linguistics and english language lancaster university lancaster la1 4yl. Stance, for example, has been shrunk to a focus on selfmention and expanded to include all expressions of personal opinion, whereas voice has been. We show how sociolinguistic approach with the focus on conscious control of using intonation can enhance the communicative performance of linguistic students at novosibirsk state technical university. Stance oxford studies in sociolinguistics general editors. Sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe find, read. Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies in sociolinguistics by alexandra jaffe isbn. Comparing conversational goals, she argued that men have.

Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford university press. Stance sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe 1 2009 1 oxford university press, inc. All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech. Rather than assigning sociolinguistic meaning in a correlational fashion via a direct mapping between linguistic forms and social categories, as in earlier approaches to sociolinguistic variation, current theorists draw either implicitly or explicitly on the concept of indexicality, or contextually. Reviewed by greg myers the term stance has been used by many linguists in the last twenty years, but it soon becomes clear in scanning any bibliography of the topic that there are different stances on. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a pdf of a single chapter of a. The effects of social organization and social setting nancy c.

In this article, we examine the way that audiences respond to particular representations of poverty. Contemporary sociolinguistic work on style, including schilling. In this paper, we aim at identifying the efficiency of teaching english intonation at the university level. Stance and voice are two of the most significant concepts in applied linguistics today, but at the same time, and perhaps because of this, they are also among the most contested and ambiguous. This book is the first corpusbased description of epistemic stance in conversational american english. Estes 1998, eckert 2000, and the edited volume by eckert and rickford. A sociolinguistic study kay richardson language without rights lionel wee paths to postnationalism monica heller language myths and the history of english. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion. This study aims to offer a fresh look at the relationship between identity, stancetaking and code choice.