Stance, style, and the linguistic individual, barbara johnstone 3. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical texts, naturally occurring conversation, classroom interaction and. Drawing on data from such diverse contexts as advertising, tourism, historical. Lancaster university department of linguistics and english language lancaster university lancaster la1 4yl. Oxford university press, 2009 find, read and cite all the research. Linguistic variation is at the heart of the concept of linguistic stylewithout variation there is no basis for distinguishing social meanings.
Department of anthropology, barnard college, columbia university, 3009 broadway, new york, ny 10027. Sociolinguistic perspective on teaching english intonation. It proposes that stancebased sociolinguistic analysis 1 situates linguistic acts of stance within the sociocultural matrices that give stances their social meanings. 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 dominant perspectives in the study of codeswitching have been either sociolinguistic or grammatical in nature. 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. Fuller 2015, wileyblackwell, isbn 9781118732298 zeinab kafi1a, khalil motallebzadeh2a 1. Janet mcintosh, professor of anthropology and chair of the department of anthropology, is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, language ideology, narrative and discourse, personhood, essentialism, religion, ritual, islam, ethnic identity, colonialism and postcoloniality, whiteness studies, the united states military. Sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe find, read. In this context, social meanings can include group membership, personal attributes, or beliefs. When a speaker describes an object in a way that expresses their attitude or relation to the object, the speaker is taking a stance.
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 pragmatics of politeness hmj sastra arab uns qismu. In this paper, we aim at identifying the efficiency of teaching english intonation at the university level. It ranges greatly in depth and detail, from the study of dialects across. Macedo ma tefltesl program university of birmingham, england module 6 may 31st 2001. All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visa vis the.
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. This authority may relate to concrete perceptual factors in the field of discourse, or to. Sociolinguistic perspectives alexandra jaffe print publication date. Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford university press. 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. 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.
Social boundaries, selflamination, and metalinguistic anxiety in white kenyan narratives about the african occult, in stance. Sociolinguistic perspectives all communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional, and. 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. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and formal perspectives. 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. 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. A sociolinguistic study kay richardson language without rights lionel wee paths to postnationalism monica heller language myths and the history of english. In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings. In this article, we examine the way that audiences respond to particular representations of poverty. Affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction.
Comparing conversational goals, she argued that men have. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and formal perspectives on. Stance, for example, has been shrunk to a focus on selfmention and expanded to include all expressions of personal opinion, whereas voice has been. 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. As the editor broadly frames it, stancetaking involves taking up a position with respect to the form or the content of ones utterance p. 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. Estes 1998, eckert 2000, and the edited volume by eckert and rickford.
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. Nikolas coupland adam jaworski cardiff universityrecentl. This book brings together contributions in a new and dynamic current of academic explorations of stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon. Stance hardcover alexandra jaffe oxford university press. All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional, and social implications of their speech. 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.
Stance sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies. Stance by alexandra jaffe overdrive rakuten overdrive. Stance sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe 1 2009 1 oxford university press, inc. 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. Sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and formal perspectives on meaning.
This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. 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. Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies in sociolinguistics reprint edition by alexandra jaffe author 4. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures. 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. Pdf social class and language mohammed umar academia. The effects of social organization and social setting nancy c. This study aims to offer a fresh look at the relationship between identity, stancetaking and code choice. 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. Sociolinguistic perspectives, 2009 online research. All communication involves acts of stance, in which speakers take up positions visavis the expressive, referential, interactional and social implications of their speech.
It proposes that stance based sociolinguistic analysis 1 situates linguistic acts of stance within the sociocultural matrices that give stances their social meanings. 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. More recently 8, 9 has compared gender differences in language as more similar to cultural difference cultural difference approach. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Variation can occur syntactically, lexically, and phonologically.
John clark and colin yallopan introduction to phonetics and phonology second edition 10. Lancaster university department of linguistics and english language lancaster university lancaster la1 4yl england g. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion. Prosodic features of stance strength and polarity valerie freeman indiana university lsa annual meeting. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours. The sociolinguistics study of gender address patterns in. Stance as the explanation for patterns of sociolinguistic variation. This book is the first corpusbased description of epistemic stance in conversational american english. Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies in sociolinguistics by alexandra jaffe isbn. This book is a collection of nine essays organized around the topic of stance from a sociolinguistic perspective. Stances as the explanation for patterns of sociolinguistic variation. Abstractmurrinhpatha, an aboriginal language of northern australia, has an initial kalternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis.
In this study, i explore three cases related to linguistic variation and the individual in the egyptian sociopolitical context. 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. Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an. 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. Sociolinguistic perspectives edited by alexandra jaffe investigating variation. Sociolinguistic perspectives oxford studies in sociolinguistics. Stance oxford studies in sociolinguistics general editors. Sociolinguistics is the study of the connection between language and society and the way people use language in different social situations. 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. 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. It asks the question, how does language affect the social nature of human beings, and how does social interaction shape language. 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.
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. Gender, interaction, and indexicality in mexican immigrant youth slang in stance. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Michael kenstowicz phonology in generative grammar 8. Stancetaking is viewed as a social action that shares the speakers view of an. Solidarity, stance, and class identities language in. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a pdf of a single chapter of a. Contemporary sociolinguistic work on style, including schilling. The sociolinguistics study of gender address patterns in the. It argues that stance is the basis of style in sociolinguistic variation. Stance sociolinguistic perspectives alexandra jaffe oxford studies in sociolinguistics. Pdf on aug 1, 2012, paul kockelman and others published stance.
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