This lively and accessible textbook, first published in 2003, looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone ...sex, from sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, the book provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of 'sexuality', the book encompasses not only issues surrounding sexual orientation and identity but also questions about the discursive construction of sexuality and the verbal expression of erotic desire. Cameron and Kulick contextualize their findings within current research in linguistics, anthropology and psychology, and bring together relevant theoretical debates on sexuality, gender, identity, desire, meaning and power. Topical and entertaining, this much-needed textbook will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and gender/sexuality studies, as well as anyone interested in the relationship between language and sex.
Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a ...language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.
The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.
The nature of the interplay between language ...learning and the evolution of a language over generational time is subtle. We can observe the learning of language by children and marvel at the phenomenon of language acquisition; the evolution of a language, however, is not so directly experienced. Language learning by children is robust and reliable, but it cannot be perfect or languages would never change—and English, for example, would not have evolved from the language of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. In this book Partha Niyogi introduces a framework for analyzing the precise nature of the relationship between learning by the individual and evolution of the population.
Learning is the mechanism by which language is transferred from old speakers to new. Niyogi shows that the evolution of language over time will depend upon the learning procedure—that different learning algorithms may have different evolutionary consequences. He finds that the dynamics of language evolution are typically nonlinear, with bifurcations that can be seen as the natural explanatory construct for the dramatic patterns of change observed in historical linguistics. Niyogi investigates the roles of natural selection, communicative efficiency, and learning in the origin and evolution of language—in particular, whether natural selection is necessary for the emergence of shared languages.
Over the years, historical linguists have postulated several accounts of documented language change. Additionally, biologists have postulated accounts of the evolution of communication systems in the animal world. This book creates a mathematical and computational framework within which to embed those accounts, offering a research tool to aid analysis in an area in which data is often sparse and speculation often plentiful.
Tennyson's language Hair, Donald S
Tennyson's language,
1991, 20150201, 1991, 1991-01-01
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Hair offers a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory in Britain while also providing some close readings of key passages of Tennyson's work and examinations of the poet's ...faith and views of society.
Redoing Linguistic Worlds Knisely, Kris Aric; Russell, Eric Louis
2024, 2023-12-08, Letnik:
30
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This book explores the undoing of gender binaries in non-Anglophone communities and contexts, through their connected linguistic and social unscripting. This is an important step in scholarship in ...language and gender, one that will inform a public increasingly aware of these remakings, both within and beyond grammatical gender.
Le langage oral est la capacité à exprimer correctement une pensée ; mais aussi un vecteur essentiel de la communication sociale.
Cette étude avait pour objectif, d’analyser les troubles du langage ...oral de l’enfant et d’améliorer la prise en charge.
Une étude descriptive et rétrospective a été réalisée sur une période de 10 années (2010 à 2019), dans l’unité de consultations externes de neuropédiatrie du CHU de Yopougon. Elle a porté sur les enfants présentant des troubles du langage. Les variables analysées concernaient les aspects, sociodémographique, clinique, paraclinique et étiologiques.
Quatre-vingt-huit enfants ont été retenus avec un sex-ratio (H/F) de 1,66. Le plurilinguisme était retrouvé dans le milieu de vie de 45,44 % des enfants. Le retard du langage était le plus fréquent (50 %). Le retard du développement psychomoteur global était le plus observé (46,59 %). L’électroencéphalogramme a été l’examen le plus réalisé (72,72 %). La paralysie cérébrale était la principale cause (51,13 %). La qualité de la prise en charge était mauvaise dans 65,90 % des cas.
Selon les données de la littérature et celles de notre étude, les troubles du langage oral de l’enfant sont fréquents et concernent surtout l’enfant de sexe masculin, comme constaté dans la plupart des travaux. Le retard du langage apparaît comme le trouble le plus fréquent et la paralysie cérébrale comme la principale étiologie avec une prise en charge.
Cette étude a permis de mettre en exergue le polymorphisme clinique des troubles du langage, les difficultés de la recherche étiologique et de la prise en charge de ces affections.
By integrating two important areas of scholarly concern - the evolution and articulation of language rights in Canada, and the history of multiculturalism in the country - Haque provides powerful ...insight into ongoing asymmetries between Canada's various cultural and linguistic groups.
White Kids Bucholtz, Mary
Cambridge University Press,
12/2010
eBook, Book
In White Kids, Mary Bucholtz investigates how white teenagers use language to display identities based on race and youth culture. Focusing on three youth styles - preppies, hip hop fans, and nerds - ...Bucholtz shows how white youth use a wealth of linguistic resources, from social labels to slang, from Valley Girl speech to African American English, to position themselves in the school's racialized social order. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a multiracial urban California high school, the book also demonstrates how European American teenagers talk about race when discussing interracial friendship and difference, narrating racialized fear and conflict, and negotiating their own ethnoracial classification. The first book to use techniques of linguistic analysis to examine the construction of diverse white identities, it will be welcomed by researchers and students in linguistics, anthropology, ethnic studies and education.
Le slam est une poésie orale contemporaine qui depuis son avènement dans les années 80 aux États-Unis d’Amérique n’a cessé de se propager sur l’ensemble des continents. Le slam allie la performance ...scénique à l’écriture des textes. C’est un art de la scène dont le but est de démocratiser la poésie, la rendre plus attrayante et populaire. Ce faisant, d’un pays à l’autre, les slameurs usent, dans leurs créations, de parlers classiquement non admis en littérature. Une démarche discursive qui permet de libérer davantage la poésie des carcans intellectuels et de la vulgariser. Cet article se propose d’étudier la présence effective de certains parlers dits populaires au sein de différentes œuvres de slam appartenant à des espaces géographiques distincts, notamment la Côte d’Ivoire, la France et le Canada.
Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable ...evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on discourse and conversation analysis, providing a full account of these methodologies through the detailed study of data from a variety of settings, including focus groups, interviews, and naturally occurring sources. Providing a thorough review of the relevant literature and recent research, this book demonstrates how discourse and conversation analysis can be applied to rework central feminist notions and concepts, ultimately revealing their full potential and relevance to other disciplines. Each chapter provides an overview of traditional feminist research and covers subjects including: * Sex differences in language: conversation and interruption * Reformulating context, power and asymmetry * Gender identity categories: masculinity and femininity. This unique and thought-provoking application of discursive and conversation analytic methodologies will be of interest to students and researchers in social psychology, sociology, gender studies and cultural studies.
Susan A. Speer is a Lecturer in Language and Communication at the University of Manchester School of Psychological Sciences. She is currently Principal Investigator on a three year project 'Transsexual Identities: Constructions of Gender in an NHS Gender Identity Clinic', which is part of the ESRC Social Identities and Social Action Research Programme. Susan was previously a Lecturer in Sociology and Communication at the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University.
Feminism, Discourse and Conversation Analysis: Mapping the Terrain. Gender and Language: ‘Sex Difference’ Perspectives. Gender and Identity: Poststructuralist and Ethnomethodological Perspectives. A Feminist, Conversation Analytic Approach. Reconceptualizing Gender Identity: ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’ and ‘The World Out There’. Reconceptualizing Prejudice: ‘Heterosexist Talk’ and ‘The World in Here’. Questions, Conclusions and Applications. Postscript: The Future Of Feminist CA: Methodological Issues.
"This is the most comprehensive and groundbreaking work to date in the field of gender and discourse research. Speer has taken gender and language studies beyond the current focus on postmodernism to an engagement with ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and discursive psychology. Speer clinically lays out the theoretical and analytic issues in a range of contemporary perspectives, and in doing so produces a clear, concise yet sophisticated book that is essential reading for anyone interested in gender, language or feminism." - Elizabeth Stokoe, Lecturer in Social Psychology, Loughborough University
"I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is a cioncise and authoritative account of the potential for feminist discursive research that draws on Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology. Undergraduate students of gender and discourse will benefit from the clarity of the arguments and analytic examples. the book ispires, and even demands action from researchers." - Clare Stockhill, St. Martin's College, Carlisle, in Feminism and Psychology , November 2006.
