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The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to linguistics:
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society,including cultural norms,expectations,and context,on language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language,which focuses on the effect of language on society. Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics and is closely related to linguistic anthropology.
William Labov is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as "an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology" of sociolinguistics.
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice. CDA combines critique of discourse and explanation of how it figures within and contributes to the existing social reality,as a basis for action to change that existing reality in particular respects. Scholars working in the tradition of CDA generally argue that (non-linguistic) social practice and linguistic practice constitute one another and focus on investigating how societal power relations are established and reinforced through language use. In this sense,it differs from discourse analysis in that it highlights issues of power asymmetries,manipulation,exploitation,and structural inequities in domains such as education,media,and politics.
Discourse analysis (DA),or discourse studies,is an approach to the analysis of written,vocal,or sign language use,or any significant semiotic event.
Norman Fairclough is an emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as applied to sociolinguistics. CDA is concerned with how power is exercised through language. CDA studies discourse;in CDA this includes texts,talk,video and practices.
Jenny L. Cheshire is a British sociolinguist and professor at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include language variation and change,language contact and dialect convergence,and language in education,with a focus on conversational narratives and spoken English. She is most known for her work on grammatical variation,especially syntax and discourse structures,in adolescent speech and on Multicultural London English.
Mary Bucholtz is professor of linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. Bucholtz's work focuses largely on language use in the United States,and specifically on issues of language and youth;language,gender,and sexuality;African American English;and Mexican and Chicano Spanish.
The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is a learned society,based in the UK,which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics.
Ruth Wodak is an Austrian linguist,who is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and Professor in Linguistics at the University of Vienna.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It entails the comprehensive,systematic,objective,and precise analysis of all aspects of language —cognitive,social,environmental,biological as well as structural.
Interactional sociolinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that uses discourse analysis to study how language users create meaning via social interaction. It is one of the ways in which linguists look at the intersections of human language and human society;other subfields that take this perspective are language planning,minority language studies,quantitative sociolinguistics,and sociohistorical linguistics,among others. Interactional sociolinguistics is a theoretical and methodological framework within the discipline of linguistic anthropology,which combines the methodology of linguistics with the cultural consideration of anthropology in order to understand how the use of language informs social and cultural interaction. Interactional sociolinguistics was founded by linguistic anthropologist John J. Gumperz. Topics that might benefit from an Interactional sociolinguistic analysis include:cross-cultural miscommunication,politeness,and framing.
Media linguistics is the linguistic study of language use in the media. The fundamental aspect of media linguistics as a new systematic approach to the study of media language is that media text is one of the most common forms of language existence today. It studies the functioning of language in the media sphere,or modern mass communication presented by print,audiovisual,digital,and networked media. Media linguistics investigates the relationship between language use,which is regarded as an interface between social and cognitive communication practice,and public discourse conveyed through media.
Janet Holmes is a New Zealand sociolinguist. Her research interests include language and gender,language in the workplace,and New Zealand English.
Elena Semino is an Italian-born British linguist whose research involves stylistics and metaphor theory. Focusing on figurative language in a range of poetic and prose works,most recently she has worked on topics from the domains of medical humanities and health communication. Her projects use corpus linguistic methods as well as qualitative analysis.
Svenja Adolphs is a British linguist whose research involves analysis of corpus data including sources of multimodal material such as the Nottingham Multimodal Corpus (NMMC) to examine communication in new forms of digital records. Using visual mark-up systems,her work allows a better understanding of the nature of natural language use. She is a co-founder of the Health Language Research Group at the University of Nottingham,bringing together academics and clinicians to advance the work of applied linguistics in health care settings.
Deborah Sue Schiffrin was an American linguist who researched areas of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics,producing seminal work on the topic of English discourse markers.
Paul Baker is a British professor and linguist at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. His research focuses on corpus linguistics,critical discourse analysis,corpus-assisted discourse studies and language and identity. He is known for his research on the language of Polari. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.
Jane Sunderland is a British linguist and playwright. She is currently an Honorary Reader in Gender and Discourse at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. Her research focuses on language and gender,Identity and language learning and critical discourse analysis.
Martin Bygate is a British linguist. He is currently an honorary professor at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University,United Kingdom. His research focuses on applied linguistics with a special focus on tandem language learning,pedagogical grammar and task-based language learning.
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