Discourse and Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models – which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables – have been challenged …
The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications During the last forty years, the functionalist strategy to linguistic description and clarification has given rise to a number of main colleges of thought that share two essential assumptions: (i) kind shouldn’t be unbiased of that means/operate or language use; and (ii) linguistic description and …
. Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form It has turn out to be an axiom in comedian research that “”comics is a language, not a style.”” . However what precisely does that imply, and how is discourse on the type each aided and hindered by pondering of it in linguistic phrases?. In …