Social linguistics and the failure of theories

1984 ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Piet Van de Craen
Keyword(s):  
Social Linguistics

Social Linguistics and Literacies

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Gee ◽  
James Paul Gee
Keyword(s):  
Social Linguistics

Functions of Borrowings in the Russian Argot

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Gulnara Lisina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
College Level ◽  
Russian Speakers ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Social Linguistics ◽  
Modern Russian

The article explores and describes the functions of borrowings which, at different time peri-ods, entered the argot of Russian fringe population groups. The main purpose of the study is to present a systematizing critical review of the existing literature on the functions of argot and to describe the characteristic features of borrowed argotisms found in Russian literary texts as well as Russian explanatory, etymological, and foreign word dictionaries. The author uses the methods of description and comparison, the comparative method, and the opposition method. Since the general criminal argot, the specialized argot, and the prison argot are rich in their forms and functionality, they perform a number of important tasks, and gradually pene-trate into literary speech. Thus a careful study of their functions helps to explain some of the linguistic realities of the modern Russian language and throws a fresh light on the psychology of native Russian speakers. After analyzing a diverse body of sources, the author identifies sixteen separate functions of borrowed words that are common for the general, specialized, and prison argot, namely: service, secret, identification, nominative, worldview, expressive, utilitarian, communicative, signaling, magic, pseudo-aesthetic, agitation, and game function as well as the function of gender determinism, the function of intimidation, and, finally the function of stylistic characterization of literary characters through their speech. The results of the research can be used in college-level courses of modern Russian for law and language students, in special courses in social linguistics and cultural studies as well as in language and public speaking courses in schools and universities.

SOCIAL LINGUISTICS

Linguistics ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 11 (113) ◽  
pp. 5-40
Author(s):  
JUNUS DEŠERIEV
Keyword(s):  
Social Linguistics

scholarly journals The Development and Standardization of Chinese Urban Traffic Linguistic Landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaozhi Su ◽  
Hong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Landscape System ◽  
Public Area ◽  
Social Linguistics

Linguistic landscape in a city can not only serve as the informative signs in public area but also record the history and demonstrate the development and modernization with social order and community participation indication. It originates its researching base from social linguistics but develops as interdisciplinary in recent years stimulating deep interests with multi-perspectives. This thesis summarizes the features and developing trends of linguistic landscape researches in and abroad at the first. And with comparative study of typical traffic linguistic landscapes in Chinese and foreign cities, this thesis discusses the framework and categories of traffic linguistic landscape system and its improving role through different stages of time, focusing on the specific features and establishing principles of traffic linguistic landscape in Chinese urban cities.

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