
Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You
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Valerie Fridland
Language is not a passive means of communication. In fact, it's the active process through which we construct societies, and, within them, our own social lives and realities. Language - as we use it in our day-to-day interactions - fundamentally shapes our experience, our thinking, our perceptions, and the very social systems within which our lives unfold.
Nowhere is the social role of language revealed more clearly than in the fascinating field of sociolinguistics. Among many eye-opening perspectives, the work of sociolinguistics points out that:
- Language is strong social capital, and our linguistic choices carry both costs and benefits we rarely consider.
- Our identity is strongly tied to the speech we use and our perceptions of the speech we hear.
- Our children are raised, our relationships are made, and our careers succeed, in large part, through how we use language.
- Language embodies a worldview: Your linguistic system reflects and affects the way you organize and understand the world around you.
In these 24 thought-provoking lectures, you'll investigate how social differences based on factors such as region, class, ethnicity, occupation, gender, and age are inseparable from language differences. Further, you'll explore how these linguistic differences arise, and how they both reflect and generate our social systems. You'll look at the remarkable ways in which our society is a reflection of our language, how differences in the way people use language create differences in society, how people construct and define social contexts by their language use, and ultimately why our speech reveals so much about us. Join a brilliantly insightful sociolinguist and teacher in a compelling inquiry that sheds light on how our linguistic choices play a determining role in every aspect of our lives.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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Very informative
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Presenter speaks too fast and consequently trips over her own words often. Later she seems unfamiliar with her own lecture material and restarts sentences multiple times. Too many attempted witty one-liners that fall flat, and while I appreciate her efforts for professional reasons to modulate her native dialect, she brings it up almost every lecture and it gets tiresome. Feels like she's trying too hard to be relatable and/or funny. Perhaps she should have simply spoken naturally, though at one point she notes she's lived in Nevada for a few years at the time she recorded these lectures.
I also felt she had some slightly negative attitudes or comments towards certain geographical areas and states. I grew up in the northeastern US and then moved to the Upper Midwest as a tween, and after military service (as a linguist), currently reside in the northern part of the South. I'm familiar with all the specific accents and dialects she references from these locations, and some from outside the US as well. A few of her overexaggerations of the Upper Midwest dialects earned her a side eye as I listened. Probably wouldn't have been as bad if she hadn't started laughing at herself immediately afterward.
Not enough of the recorded native speakers (and the recordings were not the best quality), and it could do with less of her attempt to mimic some of these same speech patterns. I don't know if her academic speaking was over the top for other listeners (I'm finishing up my PhD and using a heavily language-based methodology so it was fine for me), so I'm not going to comment on that portion.
She speaks too fast, tries too hard to be funny.
Content was actually extremely interesting all the way through, if you can get past her delivery of the material.
Good info, narration not so much.
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Would you try another book from The Great Courses and/or Professor Valerie Fridland?
Yes but not if Mrs Fridland narrates it. One of the other reviewers pointed out how annoying her voice is and I have to agree. It's shrill, weirdly chipper,and just not comfortable to listen to for more than a few minutes.What was one of the most memorable moments of Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You?
I zoned out a lot during this audio book, something that very rarely happens. Mrs Fridland just didn't keep me interested all that long. The few points I do remember were interesting though.What didn’t you like about Professor Valerie Fridland’s performance?
She has a high pitched voice, too shrill. Not pleasant.Was Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You worth the listening time?
I didn't retain a lot of the concepts. This might be a lecture better ingested from a written source material.Any additional comments?
The content is interesting but I just couldn't finish it. Mrs Fridland's voice and fact that visualizing language-based concepts is hard make this for a fairly tough audio book to get through.Like nails on a chalkboard
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Lots of asides
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handbook for anyone on the spectrum
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The English language and the US society maybe a more precise title
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Worst Great Courses I've Heard
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Sad Clown
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Other comments on the series pointed out the lecturers rapid speech. It did take some getting used to, but I think I understand where it comes from: Nevada. Years ago I interacted with a medical person who spoke the same way and in the course of our conversation, she said she was from Nevada and that everyone spoke rapidly.
The lecture information gives some historical information about where various styles of speech in the US originated, but I'd have liked to know more -- in everyday English and with actual examples of the speech rather than people reciting a written script. I still don't know what well over half the tech terms mean.
I may go through the PDF file at the Audible site to look for information that may have whipped past me, but I don't think I'll listen to this lecture series again. I did listen to all the lectures.
Interesting, but not illuminating
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Mocking
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