Figures // Tables // Author’s acknowledgements // Publisher’s acknowledgements // 1 Writing in sociolinguistics // Introduction // Spoken language as the object of the sociolinguistic gaze // Key principles in sociolinguistics // The importance of the social // The empirical study of naturally occurring language // Everyday language as worthy of study // Variety as a core dimension to language // The position(ing) of writing in sociolinguistics // Standardisation and codification // Speech and writing in binary opposition // The acceptable site for ‘closet prescriptivism’? // Legitimising writing as an object of sociolinguistic inquiry // The ethnographic pull in sociolinguistics // Background and aims of this book // Overview of the book // Notes // 2 The question of mode // Introduction What’s in a mode? // Writing as inscription // Writing as verbal // Writing as material // Writing as technologies // Writing as visual // Writing as spatial // Writing and other modal dimensions // Modes in practice: an example from geosemiotics // Conclusion // Notes // 3 Writing as verbal // Introduction // Approaches to text analysis: content, form, function // Content analysis // Form-functional analysis // Layering function onto form // Collapsing the form function dichotomy // Elevating form over function // Traditions of written text analysis // Critical discourse analysis // Rhetoric and new rhetoric // Stylistics // Contrastive rhetorics // Typification and genre // Conclusion // Notes // 4 Writing as everyday practice // Introduction // What counts as literacy? // What counts as writing? // Writing as ordinary // A social practice perspective // Theoretical and empirical tools for exploring writing as social practice // Who are writers? // The current growth in writing activity // Using old and new writing technologies: an example of popular political //
Writing as differentially evaluated resource: the case of formal schooling // A note on the challenges of description // The question of literacy // The question of language // Conclusion // Notes // 5 Resources, networks and trajectories // Introduction // Resources for writing: use and re-use // Communities, networks and the clustering of resources // Communities — speech, discourse and practice // Identifying clusters of resources // Networks and brokers 111 // The portability and mobility of writing 113 // Centring institutions, text trajectories and the question of uptake 113 // Seeking asylum (Blommaert 2005) 113 // Writing for academic publication (Lillis and Curry 2010) 118 // Medical certification processes in nineteenth-century England (Berkenkotter and Hanganu-Bresch 2011) 119 // Conclusion 121 // Notes 123 // 6 Identity, inscription and voice 124 // Introduction 124 // Why focus on identity? 124 // Writing as identity work 127 // The social structuring of opportunities for writing 127 // Habitus and writing practices 129 // Resources for writing inscribed with particular identities 131 // An example of a centripetal resource: essayist literacy 134 // Regulation and agency I36 // Strongly regulated writing spaces 136 // Weakly regulated writing spaces 139 // Ownership and becoming: the material resources for identity work in // writing 146 // Conclusion 147 // Notes 14: // 7 Theorising writing-reading-texts: domains and frames 150 // Introduction 130 // Conceptualising what writers do: different approaches to writersreaders-texts I50 // Poetic-aesthetic 151 // Transactional-rationalist 152 // Process-expressionist 153 // Socio-cognitive 154 // Social semiotic I55 // Socio-discursive I56 // Social practice 158 // Participatory culture I59 // Recognition and evaluation of writing: domains and frames 161 //
Shifting the frame: the aesthetics of routine writing 165 // Student writing 165 // Workplace writing 166 // Conclusion 169 // Notes 171 // viii The Sociolinguistics of Writing // 8 Conclusions // Introduction // A summary of key points in this book // The question of function // The question of value and evaluation // The question of boundaries // Future research // References // Index