David Lee is a faculty member at the University of Michigan, USA. His research interests include applied linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.
This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender differentiation and social variation in speech.
In this study, David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of two contrasting views on language. For much of its history, linguistics has been dominated by a tradition which sees individual languages as uniform, homogenous systems. However, there has always been an opposite view emphasising the complex tensions and cross-currents inherent in linguistic usage. This alternative perspective is explored in the analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts: casual conversations, interviews, newspaper reports, official memoranda, television commercials and extracts from novels. The author describes how both spoken and written texts can be seen as the sites where tensions between "competing discourses", stemming from different social positions and perspectives, are illustrated.
This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender differentiation and social variation in speech.In this study, David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of two contrasting views on language. For much of its history, linguistics has been dominated by a tradition which sees individual languages as uniform, homogenous systems. However, there has always been an opposite view emphasising the complex tensions and cross-currents inherent in linguistic usage. This alternative perspective is explored in the analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts: casual conversations, interviews, newspaper reports, official memoranda, television commercials and extracts from novels. The author describes how both spoken and written texts can be seen as the sites where tensions between "competing discourses", stemming from different social positions and perspectives, are illustrated.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Classification and selection
2. Grammar, categories and world-view
3. Language and world-view: Golding and Faulkner
4. Metaphor
5. Language, perspective, ideology
6. Language and gender
7. Discursive interactions
8. Variety, discourse, ideology
9. Conclusion and overview
References
Index
PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Classification and selection2. Grammar, categories and world-view3. Language and world-view: Golding and Faulkner4. Metaphor5. Language, perspective, ideology6. Language and gender7. Discursive interactions8. Variety, discourse, ideology9. Conclusion and overviewReferencesIndex
Part of a sociolinguistics series about language use in the real world, and about the relationships between language, society and social change. The author argues for an approach that takes linguistic practice to be the primary medium through which social processes operate.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Classification and selection
2. Grammar, categories and world-view
3. Language and world-view: Golding and Faulkner
4. Metaphor
5. Language, perspective, ideology
6. Language and gender
7. Discursive interactions
8. Variety, discourse, ideology
9. Conclusion and overview
References
Index
Klappentext
This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender differentiation and social variation in speech.
In this study, David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of two contrasting views on language. For much of its history, linguistics has been dominated by a tradition which sees individual languages as uniform, homogenous systems. However, there has always been an opposite view emphasising the complex tensions and cross-currents inherent in linguistic usage. This alternative perspective is explored in the analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts: casual conversations, interviews, newspaper reports, official memoranda, television commercials and extracts from novels. The author describes how both spoken and written texts can be seen as the sites where tensions between competing discourses, stemming from different social positions and perspectives, are illustrated.
