title: Representing the social through language: Theory and practice of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Molodychenko, Evgeni N.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Chernyavskaya, Valeria E.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-08-10T16:48:24Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-08-10T16:48:24Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Molodychenko E. N., Chernyavskaya V. E. Representing the social through language: Theory and practice of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (1): 103–124.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.106
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37322
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article reviews research traditions and new findings pertaining to the issue of ‘language in
  society’ over the period from circa 2005 to 2020. Specifically, we discuss some of the tenets and
  analytical toolkits of American and Western European traditions of sociolinguistics and linguistic
  anthropology, as well as the strands of discourse analysis that integrate the former and/
  or the latter into their theoretical framework. Such contemporary schools of thought are represented,
  among others, by Michael Silverstein, Penelope Eckert, and Asif Agha in the USA,
  by Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall, and Nikolas Coupland in the UK, by Jan Blommaert in the Netherlands,
  and by Jürgen Spitzmüller and Barbara Soukup in Austria. The topics and concepts
  discussed in the article include social indexicality of linguistic signs, enacting social relations
  between speakers, ethno-metapragmatics, and (social) styles. We begin with an overview of
  the ‘third wave’ of sociolinguistics, which has been focused on exploring linguistic variation
  as a medium used by individuals or groups for evoking or (re)constructing the ‘social world’.
  It is discussed how sociality is being enacted by individuals, how semiotic ties are set between
  a linguistic sign and social value, how persistent social attribution is created, and how all
  these phenomena can be explored through analysis of indexical tokens and types. Indexicality
  is seen here as the capacity of a (linguistic) sign to ‘point to’ a variable of the context of its
  usage. Social indexicality is thus seen as evoking such social value as forms of identity and
  communicative roles and social relations drawing on these forms. An overview of the history
  of sociolinguistics also serves to illustrate the transformation of views on agentivity, identity,
  and linguistic/semiotic objects: from the static view of identity as predefined by the social
  structure and (passively) projected through various semiotic media, including language, to a
  more perforative contemporary view of identity as (creatively) stylized in social encounters. It
  is further contended that a crucial prerequisite for such stylization is the malleability and mutability
  of social/indexical meanings, with so-called ethno-metapragmatics — reflexive activity
  targeting said meanings and signs carrying them — being the process driving the change.
  Finally, we show how these theories and methods can be traced to ideas expressed by Russian/
  Soviet scholars of early and mid twentieth century.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project number
  20-112-50208.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociolinguistics third wave
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social indexicality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metapragmatics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnometapragmatics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociostyle
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Representing the social through language: Theory and practice of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 13507-Текст статьи-44127-1-10-20220516.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/37322/1/13507-%d0%a2%d0%b5%d0%ba%d1%81%d1%82%20%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0%d1%82%d1%8c%d0%b8-44127-1-10-20220516.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 706,49 kB