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Book of Abstracts ISA RC25 Language and Society - Research Advances in Social Sciences

Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences International Conference of RC25 ISA, 2019

The conference aims to foster discussion among sociologists, sociolinguists, and other social scientists about the relations between language and society. This edition of the Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences international conference covers two main scopes. The first scope is related to gender and children equality in liberal and conservative discourses. The purpose is to shed light on how these discourses inform about the preferences, the behaviors, and the representations toward: gender positions and what is expected or not of these positions; children/parental positions; gendered children. This scope includes both the support and the resistance towards children's expected positions interlinked to their gender. The second scope is based on RC25 core approach: looking at language rather than solely through language. All communications which look at language in this sense are welcome, as all theoretical and methodological frameworks that can be used to create sociological analyses of language. For instance, a non-exhaustive list of potential topics for this second scope is: • Language and power • Language in public and private spheres • Multilingualism and plurilingualism • Language and transnationalism • Language and migration • Language and global network • Language and identity • Language and intersectional positioning in public and private sphere • Language policies • To enhance knowledge dissemination beyond linguistic borders, scholars are welcome to present the literature they are using and which is not available in English. English is the official communication language for the conference. However, scholars are welcome to show their visual presentation in another language (French or Spanish are the official languages of ISA). RC 25 Language & Society is a research committee of the International Sociological Association. The objective of the Research Committee on Language and Society is to advance sociological knowledge concerning language in interaction and in systems of representation. Members are united by the desire to look at rather than through systems of communication.

Linguistics 283: Language and Society

Whether they know it or not, everyone is interested in sociolinguistics. Comments such as "People from Philadelphia talk funny," "I didn't understand the point of that story," or "How was I supposed to know you were kidding?" are the kind of casual remarks that come up in day-to-day conversation, but behind each of them is an implicit theory about the way language and culture are connected -that a way of talking is connected with a geographical location, for example, or that a good story should have an identifiable "point." As participants in the social world, each of us does this kind of theorizing all day, every day, but social scientists have developed philosophies and methodologies that allow us to conduct more principled investigations into questions such as "What does it mean when people from a given social group use a certain pronunciation?" "What counts as a 'good' story in this social setting?" and "What kind of cues do people give to signal that they're not intending to be taken literally?"

Language in a Cultural Sociological Perspective

Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften, 2019

In this chapter I intend briefly to reconstruct the ways in which we can consider language as a cultural resource that people use to share their social world, organize their social life, and attribute values and meanings to their experiences. In particular, I consider the familiar question of the context needed to understand the facts of language in use. In order to understand language in terms other than the internal logic of the system, I show the importance of considering language as it is concretely exercised and practiced by people in concrete situations of use. As regards what should be considered an appropriate context for the exercise of language, I present different solutions given to the issue according to different academic styles and theoretical approaches. These solutions range from considering the context as a structural array of social characteristics that affect individual behaviour in society, through seeing it as the actual situation of talking together, or as the ...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF SOCIETY

Fitri Fatika Astini, 2024

Praise be to the presence of Allah SWT who has given grace and guidance so that we can complete the paper assignment entitled "The relationship between language and social context of society" on time. The aim of writing this paper is to fulfill the assignment of Mam Yuliana S. Pd, M.Pd in the Second Language Acquisition course. Apart from that, this paper also aims to increase insight into Sociolinguistics for readers and writers. We would like to thank Mam Yuliana S.Pd, M.Pd as the Lecturer in the Second Language Acquisition Course who has given us this assignment so that we can increase our knowledge and insight according to the field of study we are studying. We realize that the paper we wrote is still far from perfect. Therefore, we look forward to constructive criticism and suggestions for the perfection of this paper.

Society and language use: introduction

In: Society and Language use (edited by Jaspers, Östman & Verschueren), John Benjamins, 2010

The simplest and yet most important contribution of sociolinguistics [and similar disciplines willing to go under that flag] to social scientific knowledge is its insistence on recognizing the considerable variation in speech that exists within even the most homogeneous of societies. The second important contribution is the insistence that this variation is neither trivial nor a pale reflection of 'real' language, but that it is systematic and that the systematicity of linguistic variation is an imperative object of study in itself.

Language, Society and Power

Language, Society and Power, 2004

Third edition Language, Society and Power is the essential introductory text for students studying language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways in which language functions, how it influences thought and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. It seeks to answer such questions as: How can a language reflect the status of children and older people? Do men and women talk differently? How can our use of language mark our ethnic identity? It also looks at language use in politics and the media and investigates how language affects and constructs our identities, exploring notions of correctness and attitudes towards language use. This third edition of this bestselling book has been completely revised to include recent developments in theory and research and offers the following features: ■ a range of new and engaging international examples drawn from everyday life-beauty advertisements, conversation transcripts, newspaper headlines reporting on asylum seekers, language themed cartoons, and excerpts from the television programme South Park and satirical news website The Onion ■ new activities designed to give students a real understanding of the topic ■ an additional chapter covering Student Projects-giving readers suggestions on how to further explore the topics covered in the book ■ updated and expanded further reading sections for each chapter and a glossary. While it can be used as a stand-alone text, this edition of Language, Society and Power has also been fully cross-referenced with the new companion title: The Language, Society and Power Reader. Together these books provide the complete resource for students of English language and linguistics, media, communication, cultural studies, sociology and psychology.