I concur on recommending Lippi-Green. The chapter on standard language
is an eye-opener for students, and the chapter on Disney feature-length
cartoons disturbs them and promotes some very interesting discussion. I
concluded one term when we used the book with a speaker-phone call to
the author in which she and the students conversed and debated for 45
minutes. The class loved it.
Herb
Subject: Re: Sociolinguistics books
The Lippi-Green book (_English with an Accent_) that several previous
respondents have mentioned is one that I've used in classes before. I
highly recommend it. Although it presents the results of a number of
research studies, etc., it's written in a journalistic style that makes
it highly accessible to students, even ones without much background in
the area. I recommend it to future teachers in my pedagogy classes.
You might also find Wolfram, Adger, and Christian's _Dialects in Schools
and Communities_ useful.
Bill Spruiell
Central Michigan University
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Subject: Sociolinguistics books
Next year, I am team-teaching a course on language and power in the
United States. In it, we have (recklessly) promised, among other
things, to look at how language is a force in both personal and social
relations in American society; how, through language, the powerful have
defined and controlled the powerless and the powerless have resisted the
powerful; how it can open doors and close them; and how it is at the
heart of burning issues of propaganda and censorship and of relations
among race, class, and gender.
I'd appreciate suggestions of books or articles (a) for me to read and
(b) to assign the students, who will be in their first and second year
of college and have no background in language study.
Thanks.
Michael Kischner
Humanities Division
North Seattle Community College
9600 College Way North
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 543-2609
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