Language, Sexuality, History

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.12 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

William L. Leap

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Historical Linguistics ◽

Historical Inquiry ◽

Previous Time ◽

Ongoing Project

Discussions of language and sexuality within history typically aim to produce a chronology tracing how language use related to sexuality at some previous time became language use related to sexuality in more recent settings. But there are “far more possibilities for living than time as measurement would lead us to believe” (Dinshaw 2012: 137), and historical inquiry needs to capture those possibilities. This chapter proposes that a queer historical linguistics offers a useful framework for exploring those possibilities. Applying “scavenger methodology” to examples from an ongoing project (Leap 2020), the chapter explores relationships between language and sexuality in the years preceding the so-called Stonewall rebellion (late June 1969).

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Typology and the future of Cognitive Linguistics

Cognitive Linguistics ◽

10.1515/cog-2016-0056 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 587-602 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

William Croft

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Cognitive Linguistics ◽

Language Use ◽

Historical Linguistics ◽

Linguistic Variation ◽

Theory Of Language ◽

The Individual ◽

The Relationship ◽

Individual Speaker

AbstractThe relationship between typology and Cognitive Linguistics was first posed in the 1980s, in terms of the relationship between Greenbergian universals and the knowledge of the individual speaker. An answer to this question emerges from understanding the role of linguistic variation in language, from occasions of language use to typological diversity. This in turn requires the contribution of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary historical linguistics as well as typology and Cognitive Linguistics. While Cognitive Linguistics is part of this enterprise, a theory of language that integrates all of these approaches is necessary.

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Children’s identities constructions and the “Mehrraum”

Language and Dialogue ◽

10.1075/ld.5.2.03lan ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 247-263

Author(s):

Helza Ricarte Lanz ◽

Juliane Noack Napoles

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Added Value ◽

Main Question ◽

Home Setting ◽

Research Techniques ◽

The Impact ◽

Ongoing Project ◽

Brazilian Children

The aim of this paper is to achieve a better understanding of the impact of bilingualism on children, considering the dimensions of languages, language use and identity. Since 2009, we have been observing German-Brazilian children in an institutional out-of-home-setting in Bonn, Germany, as a case study. Our main question is: “which role does bilingualism play in constructing children’s identities?” The research techniques are participant observation and informal interviews with families. The results show the need of an updated concept that enables us to understand interactions between languages, cultures and societies. This paper represents a work in progress and is submitted as a contribution to the wider ongoing project of developing the concept of “Mehrraum” as an added value space.

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Grammatischer Wandel im (Mittel-)Neuhochdeutschen – von oben und von unten. Perspektiven einer Historischen Soziolinguistik des Deutschen

Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik ◽

10.1515/zgl-2015-0022 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephan Elspaß

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Language Change ◽

Historical Linguistics ◽

Empirical Investigation ◽

Present Contribution ◽

Language Varieties ◽

Starting Point ◽

Methodological Approaches ◽

Development Of Language ◽

Grammatical Change

AbstractThe present contribution addresses the phenomenon of grammatical change using a historical sociolinguistic approach, which is based on the principle that systematic language change can only be described and explained by accounting for sociopragmatic and variational factors of language use. The approach is illustrated by an empirical investigation of the change of selected morphological and syntactic features in (Middle) New High German, using Labov’s distinction between ‘language change from above’ and ‘language change from below’ as a starting point of analysis. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that the historical sociolinguistic approach not only complements other methods of historical linguistics, but may also lead to results and findings that could perhaps not be achieved by other methodological approaches. Moreover, it is considered central to the description and explanation of the development of language varieties in periods of language standardisation.

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Linguistic Competence in Aphasia

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac17.3.87 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 87-92

Author(s):

Leonard L. LaPointe

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Linguistic Competence ◽

Careful Study ◽

Feral Children ◽

Performance Factors ◽

Performance Loss ◽

Linguistic Rules ◽

Communication Goals ◽

Aphasia Treatment ◽

And Performance

Abstract Loss of implicit linguistic competence assumes a loss of linguistic rules, necessary linguistic computations, or representations. In aphasia, the inherent neurological damage is frequently assumed by some to be a loss of implicit linguistic competence that has damaged or wiped out neural centers or pathways that are necessary for maintenance of the language rules and representations needed to communicate. Not everyone agrees with this view of language use in aphasia. The measurement of implicit language competence, although apparently necessary and satisfying for theoretic linguistics, is complexly interwoven with performance factors. Transience, stimulability, and variability in aphasia language use provide evidence for an access deficit model that supports performance loss. Advances in understanding linguistic competence and performance may be informed by careful study of bilingual language acquisition and loss, the language of savants, the language of feral children, and advances in neuroimaging. Social models of aphasia treatment, coupled with an access deficit view of aphasia, can salve our restless minds and allow pursuit of maximum interactive communication goals even without a comfortable explanation of implicit linguistic competence in aphasia.

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