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Language, Society and Power

An Introduction

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Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society, and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class, and gender. Readers are encouraged to consider whether representations of people and their language matter, explore how identity is constructed and performed, and examine the creative potential of language in the media, politics, and everyday talk.

With updates and new international examples throughout, the sixth edition of this popular textbook features:

- Thoroughly revised chapters on politics and media to include topics such as environmentalism, the politics of consumer choice, injustice in legal systems, and the power of social media in political activism

- Expanded coverage of ongoing debates around fake news, gender fluidity and representation, and multilingualism

- Discussions of surveillance in relation to linguistic landscapes

- Examination of linguistic change due to COVID-19

- A companion website which includes streamlined exercises, further reading, a 'who's who' of Twitter, and links to blogs and videos to support learning as students make their way through the book.

Language, Society and Power assumes no linguistic background among readers and is a must-read for all students of English language and linguistics, media, communication, cultural studies, sociology, and psychology who are studying language and society for the first time.

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Inhoudsopgave

List of Figures
List of Images
List of Tables
Transcription Conventions
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Language?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Why Study Language?
1.3 What Is Language?
1.3.1 Language: A System
1.3.2 Language: A System with Variation
1.3.3 The Potential to Create New Meanings
1.4 The ‘Rules’ of Language: Prescription Versus Description
1.5 Power
1.5.1 Ideology
1.6 ‘Political Correctness’
1.7 Summary
Further Reading

Chapter 2 Language, Thought and Representation
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Language as a System of Representation
2.2.1 Different Kinds of Language
2.2.2 Signs and Structure
2.3 Linguistic Diversity
2.3.1 Semantics
2.3.2 Syntax
2.4 The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
2.4.1 Linguistic Relativism and Determinism
2.4.2 Numbers, Things, and Animals
2.5 One Language, Many Worlds
2.6 A Model for Analysing Language
2.6.1 Lexical Choices
2.6.2 Transitivity
2.7 Summary
Further Reading

Chapter 3 Language and Politics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 What is ‘Politics’?
3.3 Politics and Ideology
3.4 Three Persuasive Strategies: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
3.5 Biscuits are Political?: Introducing Linguistic Tools
3.6 Climate Change and Political Discourse
3.7 Language, Ideology, and Metaphor
3.7.1 Student as Customer
3.8 Twitter and Political Agency
3.9 Silly Citizenship
3.9.1 Jorts the Cat
3.9.2 ‘K-Pop and TikTok
3.10 Summary
Further Reading

Chapter 4 Language and the Media
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Mass Media
4.3 The Changing Context
4.3.1 Structure
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