Ebook – Sociolinguistics: An International Ebook of the Science of Language and Society 2 Edition (PDF Instant Download)

Seit dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage des Handbuches Soziolinguistik hat sich die damals noch junge Disziplin erheblich verändert und weiterentwickelt. Sie hat ihren Status als Interdisziplin (Bindestrich-Disziplin) zwischen Soziologie und Linguistik hinter sich gelassen und ist weltweit etabliert. Einen Beitrag zur Lösung praktischer Probleme verspricht die Soziolinguistik weiterhin unter anderem in der Sprachplanung und -normierung, der Sprachenpolitik sowie in der Sprachdidaktik und -therapie. Darüber hinaus ergeben sich aus der Autonomie der Disziplin zahlreiche neue Themen und Anwendungsbereiche, die in der zweiten Auflage des Handbuches systematisch und umfassend aufgenommen sind. Das veränderte Gesamtkonzept ermöglicht neben der regionalen und disziplinären Repräsentativität der soziolinguistischen Forschung eine enzyklopädische Brauchbarkeit für alle in Betracht kommenden Leser. Dazu gehören theoretische Tiefe und Stringenz für die Theorieinteressierten ebenso wie methodischer Reichtum und Detailliertheit für die empirisch Forschenden. Die Methodendarstellungen sind so informativ und präzise, dass sie unmittelbar zur Vorbereitung von Projektplanungen dienen können. Ebenso ist in den anwendungsbezogenen Artikeln die Darstellung so konkret, dass Praktiker genau abschätzen können, was sie von dem jeweiligen soziolinguistischen Ansatz für die Lösung ihrer Probleme zu erwarten haben. Mit dem Ziel einer umfassenden Darstellung trägt die zweite Auflage des Handbuches Soziolinguistik dem aktuellen Stand der Disziplin und der veränderten Struktur des Faches Rechnung.

Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik , the then young discipline has changed and developed considerably. The field has left behind its status as an interdiscipline between sociology and linguistics and is now a worldwide established field. Sociolinguistics continues to contribute to solving practical problems in areas such as language planning and standardization, language policy, as well as in language didactics and speech therapy. Moreover, new topics and areas of application have arisen from the autonomy of the discipline – these have been systematically and extensively included in the second edition of the handbook. The new overall concept depicts the regional and disciplinary representativity of sociolinguistic research while offering an encyclopedia-like useablitiy for all its readers. This includes theoretical depth and stringency for readers interested in theory, as well as methodical abundance and detail for empirical researchers. The descriptions of methods are so informative and precise that they can directly be used in the preparation of project planning. Similarly, the descriptions in the practice-oriented articles are so precise that users can accurately assess to what extent they can expect a certain sociolinguistic approach to help solve their problems. With an extensive description as its goal, the second edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik takes into account the current standing of the discipline and the modified structure of the field.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

For “classic” linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation.

To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology.

The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English.

The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself.

The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.

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