Nikolas Coupland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3770490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolas Coupland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Coupland |
| SIGNATURE | COUPLAND N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1044 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery: Small Languages in New Circumstances
This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction t…
Labov, vernacularity and sociolinguistic change
Despite some well-known problems in its early formulation, Labov's concept of 'the vernacular' has enduring relevance in sociolinguistics. This is even more the case if we recast it more abstractly - as 'vernacularity', ideologically contrasted with 'standardness'. Following Labov, class-associated vernacular practices have been a major empirical focus of the discipline; they have also locked in the discipline's political consciousness. The paper…
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
Language change, social change, sociolinguistic change: A meta‐commentary
The authenticating discourses of mining heritage tourism in Cornwall and Wales
Heritage tourism commonly involves displays designed to represent and commemorate a valued cultural past. Our particular focus in this paper is mining heritage, and how it has been developed in Wales and Cornwall to reflect their rather different, but culturally and nationally defining, industrial histories. From some historical and critical perspectives, heritage is still a controversial concept involving simulation and commercialisation, which …
Bilingualism on display: The framing of Welsh and English in Welsh public spaces
This article develops an interpretive perspective on public displays of bilingualism. Photographic data from contemporary Wales illustrate how public bilingual-Welsh and English-displays are organized in different frames, reflecting historically changing language-ideological priorities and more local symbolic markets. In institutionally driven displays, the Welsh language is framed as an autonomous code in parallel with English, displacing an ear…
How frequent are numbers
Voice, place and genre in popular song performance1
Earlier sociolinguistic studies have conceptualised popular song as a field of phonological variation where singers do or do not maintain features of their national or regional accents in singing. The present paper explores a wider agenda for the sociolinguistics of popular song, theorised as a diverse field of performance organised according to genre. Following initiatives in the sociology of popular music (particularly Simon Frith's research), …
The Handbook of Language and Globalization
The Authentic Speaker and the Speech Community
Handbook of Language and Globalization
Linguistic landscapes, discursive frames and metacultural performance: The case of Welsh Patagonia
Linguistic landscapes have, in the main, been analyzed distributionally, noting the preponderance of different language codes in particular settings. In contrast, we develop a qualitative, critical, frame-analytic account of Welsh language and culture, as displayed in texts in public spaces in Patagonia, the site of a Welsh colonial experiment in the mid-19th century. We identify three frames through which cultural values are ascribed to Wales an…
Social Worlds through Language
Dialect Style, Social Class and Metacultural Performance: The Pantomime Dame
In memoriam: Alan Richard Thomas
The New Sociolinguistics Reader
Introduction: Social Worlds through Language N. Coupland and A. Jaworski.- PART I: LANGUAGE VARIATION.- Editors' Introduction to Part I.- Dialect in Society W.Wolfram.- The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores W.Labov.- The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich P.Trudgill.- The Transmission Problem in Linguistic Change W. Labov.- Network Structure and Linguistic Change J.Milroy and L.Milroy.- Demythologising Soci…
Introduction: A critical approach to the revitalisation of Welsh
Diasporic ethnolinguistic subjectivities: Patagonia, North America, and Wales
A total of 956 informants with links to Wales from Patagonia, North America, and Wales itself completed a questionnaire investigating their Welsh identities and affiliation, their images of Wales, their engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and their perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for the use of Welsh. These three groups produced systematic variation across many of the issues in this…
The delicate constitution of identity in face-to-face accommodation: A response to Trudgill
In sociolinguistics, where identity tends to be our first explanatory resource, Peter Trudgill's claim that identity is “irrelevant” as a factor in his area of interest is particularly striking. There are at least three questions here. The first is Trudgill's direct concern: whether identity considerations impinged on the development of new national colonial varieties. The second is the underlying question of whether identity, in itself and in ge…
Linguistic Landscapes: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Multilingualism in Tokyo by Peter Backhaus Linguistic Landscape: A New Approach to Multilingualism by Durk Gorter
Language and Globalization by Norman Fairclough Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows by Alastair Pennycook
Style: Language Variation and Identity
Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples. It explains how speakers project different social identities and create different social relationships through their style choices, and how speech-style and social context inter-relate. Style therefore re…
Ideologised values for British accents1
We report quantitative results from a large online survey of 5010 U.K. informants' reactions to 34 different accents of English, based on simple accent labels. Patterns of accent evaluation, in terms of adjudged levels of prestige, social attractiveness and some other variables, in many regards confirm broad findings from earlier research. Accent-types associated with 'standard' speech are, for example, strongly favoured in the prestige and attra…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language: Ethnolinguistic Subjectivities and Demographic Flow
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Sociolinguistic authenticities
Dialect stylization in radio talk
Stylization is the knowing deployment of culturally familiar styles and identities that are marked as deviating from those predictably associated with the current speaking context. Dialect stylization involves performing non-current-first-person personas by phonological and related means, sometimes in play or parody. Although these processes may seem to be very local, it is arguably true that dialects are increasingly experienced in reflexive and…
Ideologised values for British accents1
We report quantitative results from a large online survey of 5010 U.K. informants' reactions to 34 different accents of English, based on simple accent labels. Patterns of accent evaluation, in terms of adjudged levels of prestige, social attractiveness and some other variables, in many regards confirm broad findings from earlier research. Accent-types associated with 'standard' speech are, for example, strongly favoured in the prestige and attra…
Accommodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory
The article begins by exploring briefly the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research. After an outline of the parameters of speech accommodation theory together with a new schematic model, it is argued that speech accommodation theory is a profitable framework for elucidating the sociolinguistic mechanics of, and the social psychological processes underlying, intergenerational encounters. A recent conceptual foray in this direct…
Style-shifting in a Cardiff work-setting
Despite ample evidence which proves the existence of stylistic stratification in the speech of monoliguals, little is know about the nature of stylistic variation in everyday settings. Data from a Cardiff travel agency suggest that a speaker's stylistic repertoire can be statistically characterised using a method that combines Labov's frequency-counts of linguistic variants and Hymes' and others' taxonomies of situational components. A second stu…
Introduction: Sociolinguistics and globalisation
How are you: Negotiating phatic communion
Since its introduction by Malinowski in the 1920s, "phatic communion" has often been appealed to as a concept in sociolinguistics, semantics, stylistics, and communication, typically taken to designate a conventionalized and desemanticized discourse mode or "type." But anegotiationperspective, following the conversation analysis tradition of research on greetings and troubles telling, fits the discursive realities better. Phaticity is a multidime…
Linguistic landscapes, discursive frames and metacultural performance: The case of Welsh Patagonia
Linguistic landscapes have, in the main, been analyzed distributionally, noting the preponderance of different language codes in particular settings. In contrast, we develop a qualitative, critical, frame-analytic account of Welsh language and culture, as displayed in texts in public spaces in Patagonia, the site of a Welsh colonial experiment in the mid-19th century. We identify three frames through which cultural values are ascribed to Wales an…
Voice, place and genre in popular song performance1
Earlier sociolinguistic studies have conceptualised popular song as a field of phonological variation where singers do or do not maintain features of their national or regional accents in singing. The present paper explores a wider agenda for the sociolinguistics of popular song, theorised as a diverse field of performance organised according to genre. Following initiatives in the sociology of popular music (particularly Simon Frith's research), …
The authenticating discourses of mining heritage tourism in Cornwall and Wales
Heritage tourism commonly involves displays designed to represent and commemorate a valued cultural past. Our particular focus in this paper is mining heritage, and how it has been developed in Wales and Cornwall to reflect their rather different, but culturally and nationally defining, industrial histories. From some historical and critical perspectives, heritage is still a controversial concept involving simulation and commercialisation, which …
The New Sociolinguistics Reader
Introduction: Social Worlds through Language N. Coupland and A. Jaworski.- PART I: LANGUAGE VARIATION.- Editors' Introduction to Part I.- Dialect in Society W.Wolfram.- The Social Stratification of (r) in New York City Department Stores W.Labov.- The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich P.Trudgill.- The Transmission Problem in Linguistic Change W. Labov.- Network Structure and Linguistic Change J.Milroy and L.Milroy.- Demythologising Soci…
Hark, hark, the lark: Social motivations for phonological style-shifting
Frame Negotiation in Doctor-Elderly Patient Consultations
Institutional discourse typically involves a dialectic between institutional (e.g. medical) frames and socio-relational frames for talk. The paper draws on audio-recorded data from a geriatric outpatients clinic in the UK to show how doctors and elderly patients collaborate in and negotiate the work of entering an apparently medical frame of talk. Particular attention is paid to sequences involving how are you?-type elicitations. Social and medic…
Politeness in context: Intergenerational issues (Review article)
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Elderly self-disclosure: Interactional and intergroup issues
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Bilingualism on display: The framing of Welsh and English in Welsh public spaces
This article develops an interpretive perspective on public displays of bilingualism. Photographic data from contemporary Wales illustrate how public bilingual-Welsh and English-displays are organized in different frames, reflecting historically changing language-ideological priorities and more local symbolic markets. In institutionally driven displays, the Welsh language is framed as an autonomous code in parallel with English, displacing an ear…
Discourses of ageism and anti-ageism
Introduction the communicative contexts of accommodation
Contexts of Accommodation
Formulating age: Dimensions of age identity in elderly talk
It is illuminating to study identity as a dynamic, interactionally achieved process rather than as a static, intraindividual construct. Our article identifies and seeks to overview the diverse means by which the age identities of elderly (aged 70–87) interactants are formulated in a corpus of 40 cross‐generation and within‐generation conversations, based on transcriptions of videorecorded data. We propose an informal taxonomy of age‐identity mark…
Home Truths: Globalisation and the Iconising of Welsh in a Welsh-American Newspaper
Global population flows leave some social groups dislocated from their home territories and languages. Under these conditions processes of ethnolinguistic identification can become complex and the use of a home language can take on new symbolic values. We consider the case of Welsh-affiliating people in the United States of America, and the use of the Welsh language in one particular, long-running WelshAmerican community newspaper, Y Drych (The M…
Language, ageing and ageism: A project for applied linguistics
Ten years of an interdisciplinary programme of research into language and ageing is reviewed in this paper. Framed as a cumulative programme drawing on sociolinguistics and the social psychology of language, the research has nevertheless foregrounded many criterial issues in the debate about priorities in applied linguistics (as these have been summarised in Rampton's paper, preceding this in the present collection). A review of the research on a…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language: Ethnolinguistic Subjectivities and Demographic Flow
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Stylization, Authenticity and TV News Review
Mainstream news broadcasting pursues an authentication project, to bolster its claims to serious, weighty and factual news reporting. News review contributes to this project when it seeks to humanize front-stage news personnel. It moves away from the traditional, institutionalized concern with `authenticity-from-above' and works to generate `authenticity-from-below'. As an extreme instance of resistance to the `from-above' formulation, this artic…
Style-shifting in a Cardiff work-setting
Despite ample evidence which proves the existence of stylistic stratification in the speech of monoliguals, little is know about the nature of stylistic variation in everyday settings. Data from a Cardiff travel agency suggest that a speaker's stylistic repertoire can be statistically characterised using a method that combines Labov's frequency-counts of linguistic variants and Hymes' and others' taxonomies of situational components. A second stu…
Shorter Notices
Patterns of encounter management: Further arguments for discourse variables
Studies of linguistic variation in communities ought to be able to capture variable patterns of discourse. But there are problems in quantitatively studying variable realisations of functional units, because it is impossible to list variants exhaustively. A more abstract approach to discourse variation can examine the distribution of variants which are themselves functional units, tied to higher-order functions. This form of analysis is exemplifi…
Hark, hark, the lark: Social motivations for phonological style-shifting
Language, Society and Identity
Language, Communication and the Blind
Politeness in context: Intergenerational issues (Review article)
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Dialects in Contact
Accommodation as ideology
Introduction the communicative contexts of accommodation
Elderly self-disclosure: Interactional and intergroup issues
Accommodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory
The article begins by exploring briefly the role of the elderly in sociolinguistic theory and research. After an outline of the parameters of speech accommodation theory together with a new schematic model, it is argued that speech accommodation theory is a profitable framework for elucidating the sociolinguistic mechanics of, and the social psychological processes underlying, intergenerational encounters. A recent conceptual foray in this direct…
Styles of Discourse
Minority language group status: A theoretical conspexus
This paper is an attempt to articulate basic questions in this fragmented field in pursuit of a more interdisciplinary framework, one which recognises the important mediating roles of individual cognitions as a complement to sociostructural analyses. As an untapped resource, there is an ever‐increasing number of, admittedly diverse, theoretical models in the sociopsychological areas of ethnolinguistic differentiation, ethnic language attitudes, s…
Multiple Goals in Discourse: An Overview of Issues
Understanding communicative action requires bridging two worlds: the world of social actors with the purposes, concerns, and 'goals' that motivate their actions, and the world of discourse in which everyday actors' goals are expressed and inferred. This paper overviews two distinct approaches to building that bridge, discourse studies and communicative goal studies, highlighting the strengths and limitations of each approach. In addition, we over…
"Miscommunication" and problematic talk
Contexts of Accommodation: Developments in Applied Sociolinguistics
The theory of accommodation is concerned with motivations underlying and consequences arising from ways in which we adapt our language and communication patterns toward others. Since accommodation theory's emergence in the early l970s, it has attracted empirical attention across many disciplines and has been elaborated and expanded many times. In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanati…
Accommodation theory: Communication, context, and consequence
Introduction When academic theorizing addresses everyday communication phenomena, there are losses as well as gains. Research may, selectively or otherwise, partially represent the full subtlety of contextualized interaction. Methodological constraints may impose their own selectivity, so that we tend to access the accessible and learn what is most readily learnable. The real-time nature of programmatic research will reflect epistemological shift…
Formulating age: Dimensions of age identity in elderly talk
It is illuminating to study identity as a dynamic, interactionally achieved process rather than as a static, intraindividual construct. Our article identifies and seeks to overview the diverse means by which the age identities of elderly (aged 70–87) interactants are formulated in a corpus of 40 cross‐generation and within‐generation conversations, based on transcriptions of videorecorded data. We propose an informal taxonomy of age‐identity mark…
Intergenerational Discourse: Contextual Versions of Ageing and Elderliness
Micro-analyses of talk in context can expose people's activation and evaluation of age categorisations, as personal and social identities, during interactional exchanges. In this paper, we briefly overview our own discourse analytic research, which has been concerned with the management of age and health identities in across- and within- generation talk. In the body of the paper, we then document the operation of identity-management processes in …
One for the road then?” Communicative and sociolinguistic parameters of social and problem drinking
This paper provides an initial review of social scientific research on the causes and effects of alcohol use and abuse. We argue that such work is, in general, overly psycho‐individualistic in its theoretical and social policy orientations. Yet alcohol issues have, with few exceptions, been ignored in communication and sociolinguistic studies, even though these overlapping disciplines have the analytic resources to give an integrated socially‐gro…
How are you: Negotiating phatic communion
Since its introduction by Malinowski in the 1920s, "phatic communion" has often been appealed to as a concept in sociolinguistics, semantics, stylistics, and communication, typically taken to designate a conventionalized and desemanticized discourse mode or "type." But anegotiationperspective, following the conversation analysis tradition of research on greetings and troubles telling, fits the discursive realities better. Phaticity is a multidime…
Language Attitudes and Cognitive Mediation
Using an independent samples factorial design, this study examined the roles of accent (standard vs. nonstandard), speech rate (fast vs. medium vs. slow), and age of voice (younger vs. older sounding) on British listeners' social evaluations of audiotaped voices using the matched-guise technique. In addition, listener judges' level and nature of cognitive responding, their interpretations of the targets' utterances and the (mediumterm) recognitio…
Miscommunication” and Problematic Talk
Talk as 'Problem' and Communication as 'Miscommunication' - Nikolas Coupland, John M Wiemann and Howard Giles An Integrative Analysis Gender, Power, and Miscommunication - Nancy M Henley and Cheris Kramarae Misunderstanding Children - Elinor Ochs Uncovering the Human Spirit - Lerita M Coleman and Bella M DePaulo Moving Beyond Disability and 'Missed' Communication Reproduction of Aging and Agism in Intergenerational Talk - Justine Coupland, Jon F …
Introduction: Discourse, institutions and the elderly
Sociology (62 works) · Linguistics (52 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (41 works) · Psychology (39 works) · Philosophy (37 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (27 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Philosophy (18 works)