Hakutulokset: Sarja studies in the social and cultural foundations of language
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Language and Social Relations
Language is closely linked to our social relationships and is the medium through which we participate in a variety of social activities. This fascinating study explores the …
Voices of Modernity
Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern …
Learning How to Ask
Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received …
Language Contact in a Plantation Environment
Jeff Siegel's fascinating book provides a sociolinguistic history of language contact in Fiji where, from the 1860s until 1920, some 90,000 labourers from other Pacific islands and …
Rethinking Context
The essays in this collection critically re-examine the concept of context from a variety of different angles.
Culture and Language Development
As children are learning to become competent members of their society, so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In other words socialisation and …
Language, Culture, and Society
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into entirely new varieties of …
Language and Emotion
Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, …
Investigating Obsolescence
Languages die for political, economic and cultural reasons, and can disappear remarkably quickly. Between ten and fifty per cent of all languages currently spoken can be considered …
Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume …
Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia
Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has …
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular …