Language in and out of society: Converging critiques of the Labovian paradigm

Woschitz, Johannes

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2018.10.009

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“…The reason of the above statement is because when people use language, they can use it to produce new meanings. Moreover, language is complicated, it is influenced by various factors such as gender, socio-politic, geographies, social status or educational mobility or social class it-self (Woschitz, 2019).…”

Section: Language and Societymentioning

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Speech Style Analysis: Sociolinguistic Perspective

Indrawa¹,

Danti²,

Kurniawan³

2023

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The prompt development of English has formed a new perception that English should be the language of daily life. Diverse studies have been carried out to extend knowledge about the language itself with the various methods used. The researcher, in this context, aims to examine the speech style used by the main actor and the racial conflict that happened in the movie of “Freedom Writer”. The researcher uses a socio-linguistic approach to get a better understanding of the context of the speech and the speech style that is used according to the context. The film was based on a real story that happened in the united stated. The film was released in 2007. The researcher found a variety of speech style that was used by the main actor in the movie. The most dominant speech style used in the film is “Formal Style”. The formal style is used in an important and serious situation such as lectures, sermons, television newscasts, and some other occasions. The language style that is rarely used in this film is the “Frozen” style because the style is used in certain literature. More complexed discussion in this movie regarding racial issues were also further discussed.

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Section: Language and Societymentioning

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Speech Style Analysis: Sociolinguistic Perspective

Indrawa¹,

Danti²,

Kurniawan³

2023

joe

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“…This changed in the 1980s and 1990s, as what is now called "first wave" variationism, seeking finegrained correlations of sounds and forms with pre-set categories of gender, age group and social class, in addition to geographical patterns, to a "third wave" in which reconciliations were made with the enquiries carried out in the sociology of language and in linguistic anthropology (see Woschitz, 2019). Bourdieu's work on language received much attention in these years, not just from sociolinguists but from applied linguists who were interested in the role of education in his account of language socialisation.…”

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The agency of habitus: Bourdieu and language at the conjunction of Marxism, phenomenology and structuralism

Joseph

2020

Language & Communication

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The prolific and varied body of work produced by Pierre Bourdieu is coming once again to be appreciated after two decades of an "ebb tide" that typically follows the attainment of a world reputation in the social and behavioural sciences. In Bourdieu's case the ebb has been increased by resentments and misunderstandings that can be traced to the historical and political context in which he conducted his research and analysis: a context dominated by a doctrinaire Marxism which Bourdieu, who refused to take the easy route to scholarly acceptance, contested. This led to readings of his work that are seriously out of line with what he actually wrote, and contemporary scholars continue in large part to accept these unsustainable characterisations of his views based on secondhand information and selective reading rather than on a thorough understanding of his work. Bourdieu's unparalleled contribution to solving, or at least dealing with, the perennial paradox of agency versus social determinism, is possibly more relevant now than it was during the years in which he was active, yet to make use of it requires a thorough, unprejudiced examination of his key concepts-habitus, field, and symbolic capital, power and violence-within the context of struggle amongst proponents of Marxism, phenomenology and structuralism in which they were produced. Marcel Mauss once said to us, "I call sociology all science that has been done well". Georges Dumézil (1988), p. 11 just to a doctrine but, especially in the 1960s and 70s, to a political party, and toeing a party line is what mavericks refuse to do. The question of whether they cannot, or they will not, is an instance of the fundamental problem of predisposition and the choices people make-and that is Bourdieu's key question. His impact has been wide-ranging, but certain concepts in particular have had significant resonance:  the symbolic capital which particular forms of a language bring to their speakers, whilst other forms do not,  the symbolic power and violence through which the social norms of acceptable language are reproduced, sometimes with the complicity of the speakers who are led to conform,  the habitus, which embodies (literally) the tension between individual agency and social forces, and occupies a position in a field with other habitus, each defined by their difference from the others. Agency and social forces: that is where will bumps into can. The embodiment is literal because my habitus is the social forces, the external world, as represented within me (the nature of the representation being another key question). "The body is in the social world but the social world is also in the body" (Bourdieu, 1990, p. 190). The crux of debate in sociology since its founding as an academic discipline has been the relationship between individual and society, in terms both of how the more abstract concept of society is to be understood, and whether its operation in individuals is best revealed through analysis of an internal, psychological kind, or external observation wit...

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“…Основные принципы исследований третьей волны (с 2000-х годов), согласно одному из ведущих современных социолингвистов Пенелопе Эккерт, могут быть охарактеризованы следующим образом: а) языковые вариации служат выражением всей социальности данного сообщества; б) значения лингвистических переменных неспецифичны и конкретизируются в том или ином стилевом контексте; в) языковые вариации не просто отражают, а конструируют социальные значения и оттого являются движущей силой соци-альных изменений [Eckert, 2012]. Тем самым языковое и социальное сливаются, и можно говорить о «тотальном лингвистическом факте»: социальные аспекты языка не надстраиваются над лингвистической структурой, а встроены в нее [Woschitz, 2019].…”

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Language studies in sociolinguistics and other social sciences: issues and perspectives: introduction to the thematic section

Evseeva¹

2021

SSHS

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Аннотация. В статье прослеживаются становление и развитие социолингвистики как ведущей научной области, изучающей взаимоотношения языка и общества, и освещаются некоторые ключевые проблемы социолингвистических исследований; также описывается характер исследований языка в социологии / социологии языка и социальной психологии.Ключевые слова: язык и общество; социальные науки; социолингвистика; социология; социология языка; социальная психология.EVSEEVA Ya.V. Language studies in sociolinguistics and other social sciences: issues and perspectives: introduction to the thematic section.

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Language in and out of society: Converging critiques of the Labovian paradigm

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Speech Style Analysis: Sociolinguistic Perspective

Speech Style Analysis: Sociolinguistic Perspective

The agency of habitus: Bourdieu and language at the conjunction of Marxism, phenomenology and structuralism

Language studies in sociolinguistics and other social sciences: issues and perspectives: introduction to the thematic section

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