Sociocultural Linguistics

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Adam Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Sociocultural Linguistics

scholarly journals "Code switching" in sociocultural linguistics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Nilep
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Definition Of

This paper reviews a brief portion of the literature on code switching in sociology, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics, and suggests a definition of the term for sociocultural analysis. Code switching is defined as the practice of selecting or altering linguistic elements so as to contextualize talk in interaction. This contextualization may relate to local discourse practices, such as turn selection or various forms of bracketing, or it may make relevant information beyond the current exchange, including knowledge of society and diverse identities.

Taking a stance on emotion: affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Du Bois ◽  
Elise Kärkkäinen
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Continuous Variable ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
Collaborative Practices ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Affective Display ◽  
Dialogic Interaction

AbstractThis paper explores the domain of affect and emotion as they arise in interaction, from the perspective of stance, sequence, and dialogicality. We seek to frame the issue of affective display as part of a larger concern with how co-participants in interaction construct the socioaffective and sociocognitive relations that organize their intersubjectivity, via collaborative practices of stance taking. We draw mainly on two research traditions, conversation analysis and the dialogic turn in sociocultural linguistics, focusing on their treatments of affect, emotion, and intersubjectivity. Key ideas from the respective approaches are the role of sequence in shaping the realization and interpretation of stance, and dialogic resonance as a process of alignment between subsequent stances. We present a view of stance as a triplex act, achieved through overt communicative means, in which participants evaluate something, and thereby position themselves, and thereby align with co-participants in interaction. Alignment is argued to operate as a continuous variable rather than a dichotomy, as participants subtly monitor and modulate the “stance differential” between them, while often maintaining a strategic ambiguity. Finally, we comment on the rich contributions to the study of stance, affect, and intersubjectivity in interaction made by the collaborators in this special issue.

scholarly journals A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW ON LINGUISTIC APPROACHES OF IDENTITY INVESTIGATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meinarni Susilowati
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Approaches To Study ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Linguistic Approaches

Identity has been a blossoming issue in different fields. The intensity of investigating identity has stimulated the diverse methods and approaches to study identity from different angles. This paper discusses the how identity can be investigated from three different linguistic approaches, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and sociocultural linguistics approach. The practicality of these three approaches is explored to detect the nature of identity which is fluid, multiple, fragmented, socially, culturally, historically, religiously, and politically constructed and emerges within interactions. More space, however, is invested for elaborating the five principles of sociocultural linguistic approach due to its flexibility and multidimension of the approach. Empirical data is provided for proving its practicality for identity investigation. Further areas of investigation is given at the last part of the paper.

Polymedia in interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-724
Author(s):  
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Empirical Downscaling ◽  
Academic Communication ◽  
Digital Language

Abstract This Special Issue on “Polymedia in interaction” theorizes and empirically investigates practices and ideologies of digitally mediated interaction under conditions of polymedia. We argue that the proliferation of mobile interpersonal communication in the 2010s calls for, and is reflected in, conceptual and methodological shifts in empirical research on digital language and communication in pragmatics and sociocultural linguistics. In this introduction, these shifts are crystallized in five interrelated themes: (1) a turn from ‘computer-mediated communication’ to ‘digitally mediated interaction’ as a bracket category; (2) a move beyond the on/offline divide and focus on the integration of mediated interaction in everyday communication on micro-units of social structure (e.g. transnational families, business or academic communication); (3) an empirical downscaling towards private and small-scale public data; publicness; (4) a shift from the study of single modes of digital communication to polymedia; and (5) a focus on semiotic repertoires and registers of digital mediation. Research that orients to (some or all of) these focal points is compared with other trends in digital language research, including computational methods. The papers in this issue flesh out these five dimensions with findings from qualitative research, based on multi-sited linguistic and digital ethnographies in various sociolinguistic settings.

Commentary I: ‘It’s a hijra!’ Queer linguistics revisited

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 634-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Hall
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Language And Social Interaction ◽  
Queer Linguistics

In a review of contributions to a special issue of Discourse & Society on queer linguistics, this article argues that the concept of indexicality, as theorized across diverse fields in sociocultural linguistics, has the potential to offer a much richer account of subjectivity than found in dominant strands of queer theory. While queer theory valorizes practice over identity, viewing the latter as fixed and necessarily allied with normativity, research on language and social interaction suggests that an analytic distinction between practice and identity is untenable. The indexical processes that work to produce social meaning are multi-layered and always shifting across time and space, even within systems of heteronormativity. It is this semiotic evolution that should become the cornerstone of a (new) queer linguistics.

scholarly journals TEAM COLLABORATION AND EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP IN SOCIOCULTURAL LINGUISTICS

2015 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bucholtz ◽  
D. I. Casillas ◽  
J. S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Educational Partnership

‘Stupidest of all the primates’

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Furukawa
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Set Design ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Bidirectional Transmission ◽  
Japanese Television

This article examines the effect of linguistic anxiety on identity by analyzing the use of English in Japanese television from the perspective of Sociocultural Linguistics. Close analysis of segments from Japanese television entertainment programs shows how both verbal and visual intertextual resources are used to create linguistic anxiety at the micro level of personal interaction, on the macro level of government policy and television genre, and also at meso levels that exist between both the macro and micro. Semiotic resources such as costumes, set design, subtitles, and other elements in the mediascape allow for circulation of ideologies from government policies into assessments of individuals. The role of meso level discourse in the bidirectional transmission of linguistic anxiety between the macro levels of society and the micro levels of personal interaction is discussed.

“But I’m attracted to women”

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Resistance ◽  
Sociocultural Linguistics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Sexual Category ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the understudied and stigmatized sexual category of “bisexuality” as it emerges in the discourse of bisexuals at a California university. Building on the concepts of performance and “doing” identity presented by Butler (2006 [1990]), Goffman (1990 [1959]), and West and Zimmerman (1987), an outline is offered for how bisexuals, who are made invisible by the hetero/homo binary, may build an intelligible social performance of their identity and sexuality. Utilizing methods from within sociocultural linguistics (i.e., “the broad interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of language, culture, and society” [Bucholtz & Hall 2005: 586]), this paper uses ethnographic observations and video-recorded social interaction in order to analyze how bisexuality is performed in social contexts, with a focus on its performance in discourse. The paper closes with a critique of the ways that normativity operates alongside efforts at social resistance and an exploration of the relationship between different layers of sexuality.

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