How We Talk about Language Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics
How We Talk about Language Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics by Betsy Rymes, published by Cambridge University Press on September 24, 2020, is a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between language and societal issues. This 250-page book delves into how language shapes discussions around significant human challenges such as identity, life, and the fate of our planet. Rymes offers both intellectual and practical tools for analyzing everyday conversations and the various forms of communication that influence our understanding of language and society.
Readers will find that this work emphasizes the importance of everyday language use, highlighting that knowledge about language is often generated through informal interactions rather than solely by experts in the field. The book examines diverse contexts, including online debates, creative expressions, and social media, to illustrate how language functions in shaping cultural and social dynamics. By focusing on citizen sociolinguistics, Rymes provides insights into the ways language expertise emerges in daily life, making this edition a valuable resource for those interested in linguistics, social science, and anthropology.
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The most important challenges humans face – identity, life, death, war, peace, the fate of our planet – are manifested and debated through language. This book provides the intellectual and practical tools we need to analyse how people talk about language, how we can participate in those conversations, and what we can learn from them about both language and our society. Along the way, we learn that knowledge about language and its connection to social life is not primarily produced and spread by linguists or sociolinguists, or even language teachers, but through everyday conversations, on-line arguments, creative insults, music, art, memes, twitter-storms – any place language grabs people’s attention and foments more talk. An essential new aid to the study of the relationship between language, culture and society, this book provides a vision for language inquiry by turning our gaze to everyday forms of language expertise.
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