Titre : |
Sociolinguistics : A critical survey of theory and application |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Dittmar Norbertt, Auteur ; Peter Sand, Traducteur |
Editeur : |
Londres [Grande bretagne] : Edward Arnold |
Année de publication : |
1976 |
Importance : |
307p. |
Présentation : |
Couv.ill. en coul. |
Format : |
23 cm |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-7131-5837-3 |
Prix : |
4.95£ |
Note générale : |
Monographie de langue anglaise, traduit de l'allemand par Peter Sand, Pieter A.M.Seuren and Kevin Whiteley |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Allemand (ger) |
Tags : |
Sociolinguistics, theory, application |
Index. décimale : |
306.44 Sociolinguistique, ethnolinguistique |
Résumé : |
DiTTMAR (Norbert). Sociolinguistics .· a Critical Survey of Theory and Application.
London. E. Arnold, 1976 ; 307 p. (Theoretical Linguistics, 1). Price : £ 4.95. -This book
is the English translation of Norbert Dittmar's Soziolinguhtik which was published in
1973. The book was soon hailed as the best and most comprehensive introduction to the
CHRONIQUE 595
field of sociolinguistics. Since relatively few good introductory textbooks are available, the
series editor, the publisher and the translators ought to be congratulated for making the
present text available to a much wider audience. The present edition has also been
considerably revised and updated ; the annotated bibliography, for example, contains over
400 items (although, I must report that a few significant contributions by Labov and his
associates have not been included).
In the main body of text itself, the author gives a detailed presentation of two important
currents in present-day sociolinguistic research (viz. the work of Bernstein and that of
Labov) with sufficient attention being paid to a number of related topics such as language
contact, dialectology, Marxist views on sociolinguistic research, language change and the
notion 'communicative competence'. On reflection, I think that perhaps more space ought
to have been devoted to a systematic presentation of the latter notion especially in view of
the fact that it takes up a central position in Hymes' interactional sociolinguistics.
As far as the above-mentioned two main trends are concerned, suffice it to say that
Dittmar rejects Bernstein's Deficit Hypothesis in favour of the Variability Concept
according to which there is no functional deficiency in working-class speech. This theory
holds that all linguistic varieties are intrinsically equivalent from a communicative
(functional) point of view. — D. L. Goyvaerts. |
Note de contenu : |
Annotated bibliography, Index |
En ligne : |
https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/rbph_0035-0818_1982_num_60_3_5871_t1_0594_0000_2. [...] |
Sociolinguistics : A critical survey of theory and application [texte imprimé] / Dittmar Norbertt, Auteur ; Peter Sand, Traducteur . - Londres [Grande bretagne] : Edward Arnold, 1976 . - 307p. : Couv.ill. en coul. ; 23 cm. ISBN : 978-0-7131-5837-3 : 4.95£ Monographie de langue anglaise, traduit de l'allemand par Peter Sand, Pieter A.M.Seuren and Kevin Whiteley Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Allemand ( ger)
Tags : |
Sociolinguistics, theory, application |
Index. décimale : |
306.44 Sociolinguistique, ethnolinguistique |
Résumé : |
DiTTMAR (Norbert). Sociolinguistics .· a Critical Survey of Theory and Application.
London. E. Arnold, 1976 ; 307 p. (Theoretical Linguistics, 1). Price : £ 4.95. -This book
is the English translation of Norbert Dittmar's Soziolinguhtik which was published in
1973. The book was soon hailed as the best and most comprehensive introduction to the
CHRONIQUE 595
field of sociolinguistics. Since relatively few good introductory textbooks are available, the
series editor, the publisher and the translators ought to be congratulated for making the
present text available to a much wider audience. The present edition has also been
considerably revised and updated ; the annotated bibliography, for example, contains over
400 items (although, I must report that a few significant contributions by Labov and his
associates have not been included).
In the main body of text itself, the author gives a detailed presentation of two important
currents in present-day sociolinguistic research (viz. the work of Bernstein and that of
Labov) with sufficient attention being paid to a number of related topics such as language
contact, dialectology, Marxist views on sociolinguistic research, language change and the
notion 'communicative competence'. On reflection, I think that perhaps more space ought
to have been devoted to a systematic presentation of the latter notion especially in view of
the fact that it takes up a central position in Hymes' interactional sociolinguistics.
As far as the above-mentioned two main trends are concerned, suffice it to say that
Dittmar rejects Bernstein's Deficit Hypothesis in favour of the Variability Concept
according to which there is no functional deficiency in working-class speech. This theory
holds that all linguistic varieties are intrinsically equivalent from a communicative
(functional) point of view. — D. L. Goyvaerts. |
Note de contenu : |
Annotated bibliography, Index |
En ligne : |
https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/rbph_0035-0818_1982_num_60_3_5871_t1_0594_0000_2. [...] |
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