Examines the effects of bilingualism and multilingualism on the development of dialectal varieties of Spanish in Africa, America, Asia and Europe. In this title, nineteen essays investigate a variety of complex situations of contact between Spanish and typologically different languages, including Basque, Bantu languages, English, and Quechua.
How do people engage in, and competently manage discourse and interaction with others? How do members of various groups speak among each other and how do they communicate with people of other groups or cultures? What is the role of discourse in the perpetuation or legitimation of sexism or racism? Whether in informal, everyday conversations or professional dialogues, people do many things while they are speaking or writing. This volume focuses on the fundamental functions of text and talk: interactional, social, political and cultural. It illuminates discourse as not merely form and meaning, but also as action, as both shaping and being shaped by culture.
Bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, this title explores what theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program.
Bridging the gap between theoretical linguistics and language teaching, this title explores what theoretical advances suggest about learning a language after childhood and the implications for the design and execution of a foreign language program.
Based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, this title covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy through language policy to discourse analysis.
This volume is a comprehensive analysis of research and theory on verbal communication and social influence. It examines a variety of empirical studies, theoretical positions, methodological matters and substantive issues pertaining to the use of language for generating influence and control. It moves from the basic concept of monological speech and the achievement of power to the increasingly complex and subtle cases of conversational control and linguistic depoliticization. Topics such as linguistic signs of power, language as a resource for creating power and social causes of verbal power are examined in contexts ranging from informal conversations to newspaper headlines. The research scrutinized ranges from qualitative analyses of social interaction to quantitative analyses of message effects.
Draws upon evidence from infant observation and linguistics as well as from information theory in order to make two related points. This title demonstrates how our prevailing theories of meaning have failed to account for how we distort meaning.
Discusses the varieties of Spanish spoken in California, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Texas. This title addresses language maintenance, syntactic variation, language use and language teaching, and includes studies on socioeconomic, political, and cultural aspects of language in the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.
