Browsing by Subject "sociolinguistics"

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Aspects of Language and Culture by Carol M. Eastman; La sociolinguistica by Gaetano Berruto; Language in Behavior by Richard W. Howell; Harold J. Vetter; The Social Significance of Speech. An Introduction to and Workbook in Sociolinguistics by John T. Platt; Heidi K. Platt
(Language in Society, 1977) Sherzer, Joel
Reported Language Use as a Predictor of Attitudes Toward Code-Switching
(2016-04) Antolovic, Katarina; Lopez, Belem G.; Solano, Melissa
The role of conversation in health care interventions: enabling sensemaking and learning
(Implementation Science, 2009-03-13) Jordan, Michelle E.; Lanham, Holly J.; Crabtree, Benjamin F.; Nutting, Paul A.; Miller, William L.; Stange, Kurt C.; McDaniel, Reuben R.
Background: Those attempting to implement changes in health care settings often find that intervention efforts do not progress as expected. Unexpected outcomes are often attributed to variation and/or error in implementation processes. We argue that some unanticipated variation in intervention outcomes arises because unexpected conversations emerge during intervention attempts. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of conversation in shaping interventions and to explain why conversation is important in intervention efforts in health care organizations. We draw on literature from sociolinguistics and complex adaptive systems theory to create an interpretive framework and develop our theory. We use insights from a fourteen-year program of research, including both descriptive and intervention studies undertaken to understand and assist primary care practices in making sustainable changes. We enfold these literatures and these insights to articulate a common failure of overlooking the role of conversation in intervention success, and to develop a theoretical argument for the importance of paying attention to the role of conversation in health care interventions. -- Discussion: Conversation between organizational members plays an important role in the success of interventions aimed at improving health care delivery. Conversation can facilitate intervention success because interventions often rely on new sensemaking and learning, and these are accomplished through conversation. Conversely, conversation can block the success of an intervention by inhibiting sensemaking and learning. Furthermore, the existing relationship contexts of an organization can influence these conversational possibilities. We argue that the likelihood of intervention success will increase if the role of conversation is considered in the intervention process. -- Summary: The generation of productive conversation should be considered as one of the foundations of intervention efforts. We suggest that intervention facilitators consider the following actions as strategies for reducing the barriers that conversation can present and for using conversation to leverage improvement change: evaluate existing conversation and relationship systems, look for and leverage unexpected conversation, create time and space where conversation can unfold, use conversation to help people manage uncertainty, use conversation to help reorganize relationships, and build social interaction competence.
Slang and the semantic sense of identity
(2016) Slotta, James
The Racialization of Hispanics and the Subordination of Spanish at UT Austin: Explorations and Recommendations
(2024-05) Ducloux, Mishell Magnus; Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline
This thesis explores the challenges faced by university students who identify as Latine, specifically the impediments occasioned by the historical racialization of Hispanics and the subordination of Spanish in the United States. It provides a historical and contemporary analysis of the presence of persons of Spanish-language origin and of the Spanish language in the United States and closer to home: at the University of Texas at Austin, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. This grounding motivates the mixed-methods study, whose findings signal the enduring effects of language ideologies, as reflected in students’ linguistic insecurity and imposter phenomena, among other psychological attributes. Interpretations of the findings lead to concrete recommendations for interventions in promoting Latine welfare and success on the University of Texas campus and beyond.