JJ Blanco Rivero Research interests

Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2006

There are forms of scientific activity that are rarely practiced by sociolinguists, and one of them is the self-conscious construction of theory. 1 Sociolinguists, by and large, appear to share a self-perception of staunchly empirical analysts devoted to the rigorous empirical exploration of sociolinguistic details and the patterns in which they can be understood. In such exercises, new theoretical constructs, concepts and categories can be, and frequently are being, developed; but generally such constructs, concepts and categories are presented as valid within sociolinguistics onlytheir extrapolation towards more widely relevant social theory usually being left to others. 2 These others, however, rarely do that. With just a small number of exceptions, mainstream sociologists have refused to pay detailed attention to the thing they themselves see as defining what it is to be social: human interaction. In 1969, Herbert Blumer (one of those exceptions) could summarize the field as follows:

Fitri Fatika Astini, 2024

Praise be to the presence of Allah SWT who has given grace and guidance so that we can complete the paper assignment entitled "The relationship between language and social context of society" on time. The aim of writing this paper is to fulfill the assignment of Mam Yuliana S. Pd, M.Pd in the Second Language Acquisition course. Apart from that, this paper also aims to increase insight into Sociolinguistics for readers and writers. We would like to thank Mam Yuliana S.Pd, M.Pd as the Lecturer in the Second Language Acquisition Course who has given us this assignment so that we can increase our knowledge and insight according to the field of study we are studying. We realize that the paper we wrote is still far from perfect. Therefore, we look forward to constructive criticism and suggestions for the perfection of this paper.

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2012

Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies 75, 2011

Semiotica, 2009

The article starts from the premise known since antiquity that speech indicates something of the speaker. Language as action is regarded not only as a medium to convey lexical or semantic information but also of social meaning. This raises the question: How can we get access to the social meaning of linguistic structures? This is the main question dealt with throughout the paper, which sets out with carefully defining the notion of symbolic meaning on the grounds of social semiotics. It then develops the sociological concept of group (or community) as a cultural subsystem of society, in order to understand better the relationship between language variation as options of linguistic choice and 'sociolect' as a group specific linguistic variety. Within this conceptual framework, the contours of a socio-grammar are outlined, which describes the socio-symbolic functions of phonetic, prosodic, morphological, lexical, syntactical, textual, and pragmatic elements of linguistic structure. The perspective then broadens to the level of discourse on which the relationship of language and prestige or language and power is dealt with, notabene with a side view on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the symbolic order of significant di¤erence (in his opus magnum La distinction).

Poetics, 2020

The social and the cultural orders are dual - that is, they constitute each other. To understand either we need to account for both. Socio-semantic network analysis brings together the study of relations among actors (social networks), relations among elements of actors' cultural structures (their semantic networks), and relations among these two orders of networks. In this introductory essay, we describe how the duality of the social and semantic networks that constitute each other, as well as other related dualities (including material / symbolic, micro / macro, computational / qualitative, in-presence contexts / online contexts, 'Big' data / 'thick' data), have evolved in recent decades to mold socio-semantic network analysis into its present form. In doing so, we delineate the current state of the art and the main features of socio-semantic network analysis as highlighted by the papers included in this Special Issue. These articles range from in-depth analysis of 'thick' data on small group interactions to automated analysis of 'Big' online data in contexts extending from Renaissance parliamentary discussions to cutting-edge global scientific fields of the 21st century. We conclude by delineating current problems of and future prospects for socio-semantic network analysis.

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2000

Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences International Conference of RC25 ISA, 2019

The conference aims to foster discussion among sociologists, sociolinguists, and other social scientists about the relations between language and society. This edition of the Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences international conference covers two main scopes. The first scope is related to gender and children equality in liberal and conservative discourses. The purpose is to shed light on how these discourses inform about the preferences, the behaviors, and the representations toward: gender positions and what is expected or not of these positions; children/parental positions; gendered children. This scope includes both the support and the resistance towards children's expected positions interlinked to their gender. The second scope is based on RC25 core approach: looking at language rather than solely through language. All communications which look at language in this sense are welcome, as all theoretical and methodological frameworks that can be used to create sociological analyses of language. For instance, a non-exhaustive list of potential topics for this second scope is: • Language and power • Language in public and private spheres • Multilingualism and plurilingualism • Language and transnationalism • Language and migration • Language and global network • Language and identity • Language and intersectional positioning in public and private sphere • Language policies • To enhance knowledge dissemination beyond linguistic borders, scholars are welcome to present the literature they are using and which is not available in English. English is the official communication language for the conference. However, scholars are welcome to show their visual presentation in another language (French or Spanish are the official languages of ISA). RC 25 Language & Society is a research committee of the International Sociological Association. The objective of the Research Committee on Language and Society is to advance sociological knowledge concerning language in interaction and in systems of representation. Members are united by the desire to look at rather than through systems of communication.

Sign Systems Studies

This paper focuses on the semiotic foundations of sociolinguistics. Starting from the definition of "sociolinguistics" given by the philosopher Adam Schaff, the paper examines in particular the notion of "critical sociolinguistics" as theorized by the Italian semiotician Ferruccio Rossi-Landi. The basis of the social dimension of language are to be found in what Rossi-Landi calls "social reproduction" which regards both verbal and non-verbal signs. Saussure's notion of langue can be considered in this way, with reference not only to his Course of General Linguistics, but also to his Harvard Manuscripts. The paper goes on trying also to understand Roland Barthes's provocative definition of semiology as a part of linguistics (and not vice-versa) as well as developing the notion of communication-production in this perspective. Some articles of Roman Jakobson of the sixties allow us to reflect in a manner which we now call "socio-semiotic" on the processes of transformation of the "organic" signs into signs of a new type, which articulate the relationship between organic and instrumental. In this sense, socio-linguistics is intended as being sociosemiotics, without prejudice to the fact that the reference area must be human, since semiotics also has the prerogative of referring to the world of non-human vital signs. Socio-linguistics as socio-semiotics assumes the role of a "frontier" science, in the dual sense that it is not only on the border between science of language and the anthropological and social sciences, but also that it can be constructed in a movement of continual "crossing frontiers" and of "contamination" between languages and disciplinary environments. 7 Voloshinov's quotes come from the Italian translation of his article. The English version is of the translator's.