This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological imagination, exploring how we construct and operate in online spaces, and what the implications of this are for offline social practice.

Taking Emile Durkheim's concept of the 'social fact' (social ...

The fully revised edition of this 'classic' helps teachers give their learners the tools they need to express themselves through a range of stimulating drama contexts. This completely revised edition of the classic title Drama Techniques provides: *150 ideas for interesting and productive fluency practice *a large selection of drama-based techniques which focus learners' attention on communicative tasks or activities *techniques suitable for all levels *clear instructions for the teacher *adv...

This handbook provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (and continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Typological research extends across all branc...

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct Compositionality approach, whereby the syntax builds the expressions while the semantics simultaneously assigns each a model-theoretic interpretation.

Alongside this approach, the author also presents...

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique ‘hands-on’ introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The book begins by outlining the historical, theoretical and cultural space in which language use occurs, before delving into the key topics and concepts of today’s field. It examines the choices speakers make in everyday life and assesses language and status across the world, by investigating variation i...

Attitudes towards spoken, signed, and written language are of significant interest to researchers in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, communication studies, and social psychology. This is the first interdisciplinary guide to traditional and cutting-edge methods for the investigation of language attitudes. Written by experts in the field, it provides an introduction to attitude theory, helps readers choose an appropriate method, and guides through research planning and design, data colle...

Alles kla(a)r? is hét naslagwerk om Nederlanders die Duits spreken en Duitsers die Nederlands spreken te behoeden voor uitglijders. Tussen beide talen bestaan namelijk veel woorden die (bijna) precies hetzelfde geschreven of uitgesproken worden, maar iets heel anders betekenen. Zulke woorden staan bekend als valse vrienden, afkomstig van het Engelse 'false friends'. Als je denkt dat bijvoorbeeld bellen, Kleinkind en Winkel in beide talen wel hetzelfde zullen betekenen, zit je er nietsvermoed...

Sluit deze tekst wel aan bij de gestelde doelen? Hoe samenhangend is de tekst? Welke overtuigingsmiddelen worden ingezet? Is de argumentatie wel aanvaardbaar? Wanneer wordt informatie een verhaal? Hoe conventioneel is deze tekst? Al dit soort vragen komen aan bod in Tekstanalyse.

Dit handboek behandelt zes methoden waarmee teksten geanalyseerd en geëvalueerd kunnen worden: functionele analyse, coherentieanalyse, retorische analyse, argumentatieanalyse, narratieve analyse en genreanalyse. Dez...

Hoe ontstond het Nederlands uit het Indo-Europees? Hoe belangrijk was het contact met sprekers van andere talen, dialecten of groepstalen? Waarom leren we op school dat hij vindt met dt moet, maar ik vind met een d? 15 eeuwen Nederlandse taal beschrijft de evolutie van de Nederlandse taal. Ieder hoofdstuk begint met een korte beschrijving

van de taalcontacten in een bepaalde periode en de belangrijkste maatschappelijke veranderingen in die tijd. Daarna

lezen we hoe klanken, vormen, woordvormi...