American Sociolinguistics : Theorists and theory groups.
Title:
American Sociolinguistics : Theorists and theory groups.
Author:
Murray, Stephen O.
ISBN:
9789027274199
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1 online resource (350 pages)
Contents:
AMERICAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS THEORISTS AND THEORY GROUPS -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Theory Groups in Science -- 2.1 Groups and 'revolutions' -- 2.2 Institutionalization -- 2.3 Invisible Colleges and Scientific Networks -- 2.3.1 Sociological specification of Kuhn's model -- 2.3.2 Weighing the variables -- 2.3.3 Formalization of the Griffith-Mullins Theory -- CHAPTER 3. 1950s Studies of Lexicons and Psychiatry -- 3.1 The Whorfian Vogue -- 3.2 Studies of Native American Linguistic Acculturation -- 3.3 Monis Swadesh and Lexicostatistics -- 3.4 Berkeley Linguistics during the 1950s -- 3.5 Tragerian Explorations of 'Metalinguistic s' -- 3.6 The Natural History of an Interview Project -- 3.7 Gregory Bateson and the 'Palo Alto School' -- 3.7.1 Theoretical summary -- 3.7.2 Influence -- 3.8 Ray Birdwhistell's Study of Nonverbal Communication -- 3.9 Pike's "Unified Theory" and Burke's Dramaturgical Analysis -- CHAPTER 4. Sociologies of Language -- 4.1 The Chicago School Conception of Language Between the World Wars -- 4.2 Cosmopolitan Communications -- 4.3 Stanley Lieberson -- 4.4 Joyce O. Hertzler -- 4.5 John Reinecke -- 4.6 Ralph Pieris -- 4.7 Catholic University Urban Sociolinguistics -- CHAPTER 5. Language Contact and Early Sociolinguistics -- 5.1 Einar Haugen -- 5.2 Uriel Weinreich -- 5.3 Joshua A. Fishman -- 5.3.1 Students and Peers -- 5.4 Wallace E. Lambert -- 5.5 Roger Brown -- 5.6 Exemplars of Sociolinguistics avant la lettre -- 5.6.1 Address terms -- 5.6.2 Goin' and explaining -- 5.6.3 The Social Functions of Codes in Tucson and Los Angeles -- 5.7 Summary -- CHAPTER 6. The Ethnography of Speaking -- 6.1 The California Network -- 6.1.1 Via Poona -- 6.1.2 William Bright -- 6.1.3 Charles Ferguson -- 6.1.4 John Gumperz -- 6.1.5 Susan Ervin-Tripp -- 6.1.6 Dell Hymes.
6.1.7 Anthropological linguistics at Berkeley, c. 1960 -- 6.1.8 Non-contact with symbolic interactionists -- 6.1.9 Summary -- 6.2 The Program -- 6.3 Acceptance of the Line of Work -- 6.3.1 Access to publication -- 6.3.2 Reception of early publications -- 6.4 The First Generation: An Elite Specialty -- 6.5 Foundation of the Center for Applied Linguistics -- 6.6 Foundation of the SSRC Sociolinguistics Committee -- 6.7 Exemplars -- 6.8 Paradigm Shift Under a Rhetoric of Continuity -- 6.8.1 From homogeneous speech communities to continua and repertoires -- 6.8.2 Communicative competence and creativity -- 6.8.3 Rhetoric of continuity -- 6.9 The Second Generation -- 6.10 The Continued Non-Integration of Sociologists -- 6.11 Institutionalization and Interdisciplinarity -- 6.12 Theoretical Summary -- CHAPTER 7. Related Perspectives -- 7.1 Erving Goffman -- 7.2 Conversation analysis -- 7.2.1 Theoretical summary -- 7.3 Basil Bernstein -- 7.3.1 The Bernstein group -- 7.3.2 Relationship to American Work -- 7.4 William Labov -- 7.4.1 Training and relation to earlier structuralist linguistics -- 7.4.2 Prestige dialects -- 7.4.3 Black English -- 7.4.4 The context of Labov's work -- 7.5 A (Belated) Note on 20th Century American Dialectology -- CHAPTER 8. Ethnoscience -- 8.1 Genealogy -- 8.2 Ward Goodenough and Floyd Lounsbury -- 8.3 Training -- 8.4 Access to publication -- 8.5 Communication Patterns -- 8.6 Focus and Continuities -- 8.7 Methods -- 8.8 Domains Analyzed -- 8.9 'Hocus Pocus' and Other Charges -- 8.10 Disintegration -- 8.11 Theoretical Summary -- CHAPTER 9. 1980s University of California Ethnolinguistics -- 9.1 'Gumperzology': the study of inter-ethnic miscommunication -- 9.2 Interpretive Sociolinguistics: Deborah Tannen -- 9.3 'Cultural Consensus': The new ethnolinguistic formalism -- CHAPTER 10. Midwestern Semiotics and Georgetown Pragmatics.
10.1 Indiana University -- 10.2 Chicago Work on Reference and Entextualuization -- 10.3 Georgetown University's Sociolinguistics Program -- CHAPTER 11. The Turn Away from Language in Contemporary American Anthropology -- CHAPTER 12. Conclusions -- 12.1 Testing the Functionalist Model -- 12.2 Accounting f or Revolutions -- 12.2.1 Recruitment -- 12.2.2 Perceived Access to Recognition -- 12.3 Co-ordination and Longevity of Theory Groups -- 12.3.1 Multicenteredness -- 12.3.2 Interdisciplinarity -- 12.4 Summary -- 12.5 Other Variables -- 12.5.1 Scientific 'Revolutions' -- 12.5.2 Institutionalization -- 12.5.3 Marginality -- An Appendix on Methods -- 1. Why These Scholars? The Genesis of This Research -- 2. Data Sources -- 3. Interpreting -- 4. Causality -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This is a revised version of Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America (1994), the post-World-War-II history of the emergence of sociolinguistics in North America that was described in Language in Society as "a heady combination of detailed scholarship, mordant wit, and sustained narrative designed to persuade even the skeptical reader that these myriad, often simultaneously emergent, ways of thinking about language are indeed interrelated. . . . This is an outspoken, engaging, rollicking, occasionally aggravating adventure in the history of these sciences as related to their practice. . . not to be missed by anyone who cares about the intellectual underpinnings of the study of language in society," in Language as providing "the closest approximation" to how sociolinguists came together and developed the field, and in Lingua as providing "the most comprehensive overviews of the various and varied approaches to [American] linguistic research." American Sociolinguistics examines both theory groups (such as the ethnography of speaking and ethnoscience), and sociolinguistic scholars (such as William Labov, Einar Haugen, and Erving Goffman) whose widely-known and often-emulated work was not pursued by organized groups.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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