Metalanguage

Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory, sociolinguistic accounts of language variation, and accounts of linguistic usage. Drawing on a variety of data sources such as lay and linguists' metalanguage, the media, parliamentary debates, education, and retail shopping, the book comprises four sections and an integrative commentary. The main thematic parts deal with metalanguage in relation to the following issues: the theory of metalanguage, ideology, social evaluation, and stylisation. Other key themes discussed include constructionism, identity formation, in- and out-grouping, deception, discrimination, manipulation, and the increasing semiotisation of the socio-cultural landscape. Apart from the strictly linguistic concerns, some contributions focus on discourse in a broader sense examining meta-commentary construed in modalities other than language. The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage, reflexivity, and metapragmatics, and offers a new, integrating perspective from various fields of sociolinguistics: perceptual dialectology, variationism, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, and social semiotics. The broad range of theoretical issues and accessible style of writing will appeal to advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and in other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities including linguists, communication researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, social psychologists, critical and social theorists. The book includes chapters by Deborah Cameron, Nikolas Coupland, Dariusz Galasinski, Peter Garrett, Adam Jaworski, Tore Kristiansen, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Dennis Preston, Theo van Leeuwen, Kay Richardson, Itesh Sachdev, Angie Williams, and John Wilson.

Autorentext

Adam Jaworski is reader at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Nikolas Coupland is Professor at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Dariusz Galasinski is Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Klappentext
Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals in relation to sociolinguistic theory, sociolinguistic accounts of language variation, and accounts of linguistic usage. Drawing on a variety of data sources such as lay and linguists' metalanguage, the media, parliamentary debates, education, and retail shopping, the book comprises four sections and an integrative commentary. The main thematic parts deal with metalanguage in relation to the following issues: the theory of metalanguage, ideology, social evaluation, and stylisation. Other key themes discussed include constructionism, identity formation, in- and out-grouping, deception, discrimination, manipulation, and the increasing semiotisation of the socio-cultural landscape. Apart from the strictly linguistic concerns, some contributions focus on discourse in a broader sense examining meta-commentary construed in modalities other than language. The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage, reflexivity, and metapragmatics, and offers a new, integrating perspective from various fields of sociolinguistics: perceptual dialectology, variationism, pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, and social semiotics. The broad range of theoretical issues and accessible style of writing will appeal to advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and in other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities including linguists, communication researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, social psychologists, critical and social theorists. The book includes chapters by Deborah Cameron, Nikolas Coupland, Dariusz Galasinski, Peter Garrett, Adam Jaworski, Tore Kristiansen, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Dennis Preston, Theo van Leeuwen, Kay Richardson, Itesh Sachdev, Angie Williams, and John Wilson.

Inhalt
Contributors Introduction Metalanguage: Why now?Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland and Dariusz Galasinski Part 1. Approaches to metalanguage Introduction to Part 1Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland Sociolinguistic perspectives on metalanguage: Reflexivity, evaluation and ideologyNikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski Notes on the role of metapragmatic awareness in language useJef Verschueren Folk metalanguageDennis R. Preston Part 2. Metalanguage and ideological construction Introduction to Part 2Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland Metalanguage in social lifeTheo van Leeuwen Restoring the order: Metalanguage in the press coverage of Princess Diana's Panorama interviewDariusz Galasinski Lying, politics and the metalinguistics of truthJohn Wilson Part 3. Metalanguage and social evaluation Introduction to Part 3Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland Social meaning and norm-ideals for speech in a Danish communityTore Kristiansen Adolescents' lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobsPeter Garrett, Nikolas Coupland and Angie Williams Teachers' beliefs about students' talk and silence: Constructing academic success and failure through metapragmatic commentsAdam Jaworski and Itesh Sachdev Part 4. Metalanguage and stylisation Introduction to Part 4Adam Jaworski and Nikolas Coupland Stylised deceptionNikolas Coupland Metadiscourses of culture in British TV commercialsUlrike Hanna Meinhof Retroshopping: Sentiment, sensation and symbolism on the high streetKay Richardson CommentaryOut of the bottle: The social life of metalanguageDeborah Cameron Index