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Sonja L. Lanehart (born November 4, 1966) is an American linguist and professor of linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona who has advanced the study of language use in the African American community.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...
For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
In 2014, Zimman published a co-edited volume, Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality (published by Oxford University Press), which won the Association for Queer Anthropology's Ruth Benedict Prize. [13] He has taught several classes on Sociocultural Linguistics, Language, Gender & Sexuality, and Sociophonetics ...
Sociophonetics covers a broad range of topics between the quintessential fields phonetics and sociolinguistics. Studies have focused on differences in speech production, the social meaning of particular pronunciations, perception and perceivability of sociophonetic patterns, and the role of sociocultural factors in phonetic models of production among other topics. [6]
Sociology of language seeks to understand the way that social dynamics are affected by individual and group language use. According to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Chair of Language Center [ 6 ] Su-Chiao Chen, language is considered to be a social value within this field, which researches social groups for phenomena like ...
Multilingualism: a Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017) [9] Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New Horizons in Sociolinguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 15 May 2021. ISBN 9789027260024. John C. Maher, ed. (25 April 2022). Language Communities in Japan. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198856610.
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the interaction between society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context and language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.