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2015-05-09 05:14:00 -0500 | commented answer | Language, class and elite groups Thanks for this comment, too - also appreciated. Yes, politeness of very "classed", right? Do you find your work being engaged explicitly with class status and elitism? |
2015-05-09 05:12:48 -0500 | commented answer | Language, class and elite groups Thank you for this response - much appreciated. You are right to draw my attention to caste systems as a site for studying language. Kind regards. |
2015-05-05 14:39:45 -0500 | answered a question | I am trying to locate/create a word that conveys "alone together" for a photo book project. Like the Korean word "han" expresses a signature sense of sadness, I need a word that captures a sense of "public isolation". In many ways this is what the sociological sense of "alienation" seems to capture, right? Try here: |
2015-05-05 14:35:29 -0500 | answered a question | what word means to overwhelm the sense of smell in the way that "deafen" overwhelms the sense of hearing or how "blinding" overwhlelms the send of sight? Hello. I would say the most formulaic association for me is "overpowering" - an overpowering smell. Deafening noise or blinding sunshine, etc. Does this sound right? |
2015-05-05 14:33:05 -0500 | asked a question | Language, class and elite groups Hello. My colleague Adam Jaworski (Hong Kong University) and I would be very interested to hear from/about anyone working on elite/elitist discourse. In other words, people whose sociolinguistic and/or discourse analytic research centers on issues of class status and social inequality from the perspective of those in positions of privilege. Many thanks and kind regards Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland) |