The Sociolinguistics of Writing / / Theresa Lillis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lillis, Theresa,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics : EDSO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 20 B/W line art
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Tables --; Author’s acknowledgements --; Publisher’s acknowledgements --; Chapter 1 Writing in sociolinguistics --; Chapter 2 The question of mode --; Chapter 3 Writing as verbal --; Chapter 4 Writing as everyday practice --; Chapter 5 Resources, networks and trajectories --; Chapter 6 Identity, inscription and voice --; Chapter 7 Theorising writing-reading-texts: domains and frames --; Chapter 8 Conclusions --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748637492; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748637492
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Theresa Lillis.

Brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiryThis book puts writing at the centre of sociolinguistic inquiry drawing on a range of academic fields including New Literacy Studies, semiotics, genre studies, stylistics and new rhetoric. The key question the book explores is- what do we mean by ‘writing’ in the 21 century?Using examples from across a range of contexts the book argues that writing, involving both old and new technologies, is a pervasive and complex communicative feature of contemporary life.The book is organised around the following areas:The multimodal nature of writingThe verbal dimension to writingWriting as everyday practice Writing as a differentiated semiotic and social resourceWriting as the inscription of identity A range of analytic tools for analysing writing as text and practice are illustrated including genre, register, discourse and metaphor, as well as notions which emphasise the mobile potential of writing such as genre chains, networks, literacy brokers and text trajectories. This book seeks to redress the neglect of writing in the field of sociolinguistics by introducing readers to the nature and consequences of what it means to do writing in a globalised world.