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Emma Moore - Socio-syntax, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Socio-syntax

Exploring the Social Life of Grammar

Av Emma Moore

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Beskrivning
How do we adapt our grammar to communicate social detail? Do all working class people have a local dialect or are we free to use language in ways that transcend our place in the social hierarchy? Seeking to answer these questions, this pioneering book is the first to exclusively and extensively address the relationship between social meaning and grammatical variation. It demonstrates how we use grammar to communicate alignments and stances and to construct our social style or social identity. Based on an ethnographic study of high school girls in Northern England, it also uses the author's own experiences as a working-class student, to argue for change in how we conceive of grammar and how grammar is taught in schools. Lively and engaging real life examples from the study are included throughout, bringing to life new contributions to debates in variationist sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropology.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-11-02
  • Mått: 159 x 235 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 550 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 274
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108843973
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Emma Moore is Professor of Sociolinguistics at The University of Sheffield. She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow in 2020-22. Recent publications include Language and a Sense of Place (co-edited with Montgomery, 2017) and Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation (co-edited with Hall-Lew and Podesva, 2021).

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'This is a fascinating book exploring linguistic variation in young people and how they make meaning in their own social contexts. It is fascinating in its own right for anyone interested in language and grammar. But, for me, its real significance is the insight it offers to how standard and non-standard variations are equally capable of communicating rich meanings, and the challenge it poses to current orthodoxies about standard English. For educational policymakers and practitioners, the book illustrates clearly the risks of language policies which sustain and perpetuate social inequalities.' Debra Myhill, Professor Emerita of Language and Literacy Education

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