社会的アイデンティティとコミュニケーション様式：言語異種性への代替アプローチ Style and Social Identities : Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity (Language, Power and Social Process Vol.18) （2007. VIII, 513 p. 23,5 cm）

Ed. by Peter Auer

DE GRUYTER; DE GRUYTER MOUTON（2007発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 商品コード 9783110190809

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. This volume explores how variability in language is exploited (and maintained) in order to perform this social identity work in interaction. It shows that variable features cluster together in socially meaningful ways when considered as social (communicative) styles linked to social identities.

Full Description

This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces.

Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music, etc.). These various features of expression are connected to multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in the course of social processes.

The analytical perspective chosen proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.