Speaking in Social Contexts

2018
Speaking in Social Contexts

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  • Author: Robyn Brinks Lockwood
  • Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
  • ISBN: 0472037161
  • Category : Communication
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

This text was written for students who want to live, study, and/or work in an English-speaking setting or are already doing so. Its goal is to help students survive interactional English in a variety of social, academic, and professional settings--for example, how to make small talk with recruiters at a job fair or when invited to dinner at their advisor's house. The text provides language to use for a variety of functions as they might related to life on a university campus: offering greetings and goodbyes, making introductions, giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, using the phone, offering assistance, asking for advice, accepting and declining invitations, giving and receiving compliments, complaining, giving congratulations, expressing condolences, and making small talk. Users are also taught to think beyond the words and to interpret intonation and stress (how things sound). Each of the 10 units includes discussion prompts, language lessons, practice activities, get acquainted tasks (interacting with native speakers), and analysis opportunities (what did they discover and what can they apply?).

Society and Discourse

2009-01-22
Society and Discourse

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  • Author: Teun A. van Dijk
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521516900
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 299

The theory is applied to the domain of politics, including the debate about the war in Iraq, where political leaders' speeches serve as a case study for detailed contextual analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Social Context and Fluency in L2 Learners

2007
Social Context and Fluency in L2 Learners

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  • Author: Lynda Pritchard Newcombe
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1853599948
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 154

The focus in this book is on learners experiences using Welsh outside class but the issues discussed have implications for a wide range of other situations where the population is bilingual or multilingual and interaction takes place in a language of wider communication.

Communicating Science in Social Contexts

2008-07-15
Communicating Science in Social Contexts

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  • Author: Donghong Cheng
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 1402085982
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 323

Science communication, as a multidisciplinary field, has developed remarkably in recent years. It is now a distinct and exceedingly dynamic science that melds theoretical approaches with practical experience. Formerly well-established theoretical models now seem out of step with the social reality of the sciences, and the previously clear-cut delineations and interacting domains between cultural fields have blurred. Communicating Science in Social Contexts examines that shift, which itself depicts a profound recomposition of knowledge fields, activities and dissemination practices, and the value accorded to science and technology. Communicating Science in Social Contexts is the product of long-term effort that would not have been possible without the research and expertise of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Network and the editors. For nearly 20 years, this informal, international network has been organizing events and forums for discussion of the public communication of science.

Social interaction, Social Context, and Language

2014-07-10
Social interaction, Social Context, and Language

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  • Author: Dan Isaac Slobin
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 1317780809
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 674

This collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context. The opening chapter, entitled "Context in Language," is written by Susan Ervin-Tripp, whose diverse and innovative research inspired the editors to dedicate this book to her honor. Ervin-Tripp is known for her work in the fields of linguistics, psychology, child development, sociology, anthropology, rhetoric, and women's studies. She has played a central role in the definition and establishment of psycholinguistics, child language development, and sociolinguistics, and has been an innovator in terms of approaches and methods of study. This book covers a wide range of research interests in the field, from linguistically oriented approaches to social and ethnography oriented approaches. The issue of the relationships between forms and structures of language and social interactions is examined in studies of both adult and child speech. It is a useful anthology for graduate students studying language and social interaction, as well as for researchers in this field.

Introducing English Linguistics

2009-05-14
Introducing English Linguistics

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  • Author: Charles F. Meyer
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521833507
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

A genuine introduction to the linguistics of English that provides a broad overview of the subject that sustains students' interest and avoids excessive detail. It takes a top-down approach to language beginning with the largest unit of linguistic structure, the text, and working its way down through successively smaller structures.

Language and Situation

2018-09-14
Language and Situation

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  • Author: Michael Gregory
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429790201
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 128

Originally published in 1978. This book provides and explains a framework for understanding and describing variations of style of language in relation to the social context in which it is used. Constant features of language users, such as their temporal, geographical. and social origins, their range of intelligibility, and their individualities, are related to concepts of dialects, but dialects are not the only kind of language variety. There are features of language situations that yield others; the medium used, the roles of the users and their relationships, as well as recurring situations and cultural habits, all relate to the style employed. Variety in language can be seen in terms of the major functions of language, as 'content' as 'inter-action' and as 'texture'. Studying variety in language from sociological and linguistic aspects this book is also interesting for psycholinguistics and literary study.

Constructing the Social Context of Communication

2015-03-10
Constructing the Social Context of Communication

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  • Author: Dilworth B. Parkinson
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110857359
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

The Social Context of Cognitive Development

2001-01-01
The Social Context of Cognitive Development

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  • Author: Mary Gauvain
  • Publisher: Guilford Press
  • ISBN: 9781572306103
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

Traditional approaches to cognitive development can tell us a great deal about the internal processes involved in learning. Sociocultural perspectives, on the other hand, provide valuable insights into the influences on learning of relationship and cultural variables. This volume provides a much-needed bridge between these disparate bodies of research, examining the specific processes through which children internalize the lessons learned in social contexts. The book reviews current findings on four specific domains of cognitive development--attention, memory, problem solving, and planning. The course of intellectual growth in each domain is described, and social factors that support or constrain it are identified. The focus throughout is on how family, peer, and community factors influence not only what a child learns, but also how learning occurs. Supporting her arguments with solid empirical data, the author convincingly shows how attention to sociocultural factors can productively complement more traditional avenues of investigation.

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context

1998
Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context

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  • Author: Vera Regan
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Language and languages
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

Containing new research on social context and social language acquisition, this study covers variation in communication strategies, second language learning through interaction, and language and identity in immigrant acquisition and use.