Jiri Nekvapil
Charles University, Prague, General Linguistics, Faculty Member
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A book review of Julie Thompson Klein, Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice (Detroit: Wayne State University Press1990). The review published in Journal for General Philosophy of Science 23, 1992, p. 200-204.
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Jeroen Darquennes (ed.): Contact Linguistics and Language Minorities / Kontaktlinguistik und Sprachminderheiten / Linguistique de Contact et Minorités Linguistiques. St. Augustin: Asgard, 2007. viii+192 pp. Plurilingua, 30.
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Against the background of various linguistic and non-linguistic fields of study, we present an initial definition of the concept of language management as an activity focused on any aspect of language or communication or on language or... more
Against the background of various linguistic and non-linguistic fields of study, we present an initial definition of the concept of language management as an activity focused on any aspect of language or communication or on language or communication as a whole. We explain the position of Language Management Theory (LMT) as a sociolinguistic theory in relation to varying paradigms of language policy and planning. In this context, the theory's historical origins, which extend back to the collaborative work of J. V. Neustupný and B. H. Jernudd beginning in the 1960s, are elucidated. We summarize the reflection, categorization, and integration of LMT by other authors (R. Baldauf, B. Spolsky, M. Mwaniki and others), and also present critical views of these authors' work. We then outline the main aspects of LMT: typical contexts in which lan- guage is managed, the relationship between simple and organized management, the connection of language, communicative and sociocultural mana...
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The development of research areas, disciplines and sub‐disciplines is hard to map; thus, researchers can often choose to what extent they want to represent it: either via the rhetoric of continuity or revolution. Using Hradec Králové (HK)... more
The development of research areas, disciplines and sub‐disciplines is hard to map; thus, researchers can often choose to what extent they want to represent it: either via the rhetoric of continuity or revolution. Using Hradec Králové (HK) as an example I demonstrate that a number of sociolinguistic findings are relevant across different research paradigms. I present an overview of the urban speech studies carried out by B. Dejmek (esp. Dejmek, 1981 and 1987) and the interactional studies arising since the 1990s. I discuss the issue of research on multilingualism and superdiversity in the city. Finally, I report on my own research on the linguistic landscape of HK and introduce and comment on the concept of the perception scale of the representation of individual languages. I sketch the development of sociolinguistic research as a fairly coherent whole, which is shaped by the linguistic reality, the shared knowledge of this reality and the researchers themselves, who reject or follow...
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The thematically oriented biographical interview (TOBI) is a research tool used frequently in contemporary qualitative research. Compared to other interviewing techniques, its main advantage is its combination of a thematic focus and... more
The thematically oriented biographical interview (TOBI) is a research tool used frequently in contemporary qualitative research. Compared to other interviewing techniques, its main advantage is its combination of a thematic focus and sensitivity to the perspective of the interviewee. The authors demonstrate that TOBI is made up of several constituents: first, it is a speech infrastructure (comprising a conversational and a narrative component), and second, it encompasses three kinds of relevance (biographical relevance, identity relevance and specific thematic relevance). The main part of the article is devoted to an analysis of the types and forms of relevance that occur in the corpus of oral history biographical interviews. The analysis shows that, contrary to the common effort of researchers to increase the significance of a respondent’s testimony by emphasising the specific thematic relevance, the biographical and identity relevances are equally important for successfully capturing the actor’s perspective and smoothly conducting a TOBI. In their explication of relevance and its forms the authors draw on the theory of relevance developed by Alfred Schutz.
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Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in... more
Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in mind the impact of international travel and migration, the book accounts for the shifting contemporary studies to the workings of language choices in places where people with many different backgrounds meet and exchange ideas. It specifically addresses how people handle language use challenges in a broad range of settings to present themselves positively and meet their information and identity goals. While a speaker's experience runs like a thread through this volume, the linguistic, cultural and situational focus is as broad as possible. It runs from the language choices of Chinese immigrants to Beijing and Finnish immigrants to Japan to the use of the local lingua franca by motor taxi drivers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, and how Hungarian students in their dorm rooms express views on political correctness uninhibitedly. As it turns out, language play, improvisation, humour, lies, as well as highly marked subconscious pronunciation choices, are natural parts of the discourses, and this volume provides numerous and extensive examples of these techniques. For each of the settings discussed, the perspective is taken of personalised linguistic and extra-linguistic styles in tackling communicative challenges. This way, a picture is drawn of how postmodern individuals in extremely different cultural and situational circumstances turn out to have strikingly similar human behaviours and intentions. Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City is of interest to all those who follow theoretical and methodological developments in this field. It will be of use for upper level students in the fields of Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology and related fields in which urban communicative settings are the focus.
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Otázka, zda a jak šetřit, je trvalou součástí rodinných i veřejných diskuzí a budí někdy až vášnivé emoce. V základech těchto diskuzí je podle autorů knihy nejen mnohoznačnost, ale především morální rozměr pojmu šetrnost a dalších... more
Otázka, zda a jak šetřit, je trvalou součástí rodinných i veřejných diskuzí a budí někdy až vášnivé emoce. V základech těchto diskuzí je podle autorů knihy nejen mnohoznačnost, ale především morální rozměr pojmu šetrnost a dalších ekonomických pojmů. Autoři ukazují, že lidé o významy a hodnocení ekonomických pojmů svádějí boje, v nichž jde o moc, identitu a nezřídka i o společenskou důstojnost. V obecné rovině autoři upozorňují na významnou roli, jakou v ekonomice hraje jazyk a komunikace.
Kniha je určena výzkumníkům, učitelům, studentům a dalším čtenářům, kteří se zajímají o roli diskurzu v utváření (nejen) ekonomického jednání jedinců, sociálních skupin a institucí.
Kniha je určena výzkumníkům, učitelům, studentům a dalším čtenářům, kteří se zajímají o roli diskurzu v utváření (nejen) ekonomického jednání jedinců, sociálních skupin a institucí.
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This is a report on the 2019 conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA) that has been held in Mannheim (Germany), July 2–5.