Sociolinguistic frontiers: Emancipation and equality

Keat: Psychoanalysis and Human Emancipation 1
 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND HUMAN EMANCIPATION

In the Introduction I noted how Habermas presented psychoanalysis as ‘the only tangible example of a science incorporating methodical self-reflection’, and thus as a model for the general epistemological features of a critical social theory guided by the emancipatory interest in human autonomy. I will now examine his account in more detail, especially its claims about the relations between auto...

Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

Sociolinguistic Method and Linguistic Theory

What we may call ‘the sociolinguistic method’ is neither new to sociolinguistics, nor universally adhered to by sociolinguists, nor-strictly speaking-a method. It is basically a working hypothesis with a distinctive (within linguistics) methodological and concetpual apparatus, built up over the last ten to fifteen years in response to the particular needs of research guided by this hypothesis. ...

Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages

This paper examines the possible relationship between proposed social determinants of morphological 'complexity' and how this contributes to linguistic diversity, specifically via the typological nature of the sign languages of deaf communities. We sketch how the notion of morphological complexity, as defined by Trudgill (2011), applies to sign languages. Using these criteria, sign languages ap...

Sociolinguistic Approaches to Sla

The study of second language acquisition involves understanding what bilinguals know about their second language and how they acquire and use it. Because acquisition and use occur in a social context, it is important for secondlanguage acquisition researchers to understand the ways in which social context and the acquisition and use of a second language are related. In recent years, our underst...