Émile Durkheim’s Le Suicide(1897/2005)paved the way for the development of the sociology of suicide.However,Durkheim’s positivistic approach in studying suicide was trenchantly challenged by,amongst others,Jack...Émile Durkheim’s Le Suicide(1897/2005)paved the way for the development of the sociology of suicide.However,Durkheim’s positivistic approach in studying suicide was trenchantly challenged by,amongst others,Jack Douglas,who,in Social Meanings of Suicide(1968),advocated extricating the social meanings of suicide from the interpretive tradition of social research.Drawing on Douglas’approach to the sociology of suicide,this paper reports and reflects on part of a study conducted across several rural areas of Jhenaidah,an area in Bangladesh highly affected by suicide,with 17 males who have attempted suicide.The responses of the participants were interpreted with a view to understanding the social meanings associated with their suicide attempts.Although there was a diversity of individual experiences among the participants with regard to suicide attempts,the paper synthesises these and reflects on three themes which most closely represent the commonalities of experience of the 17 men,namely:(i)inability to provide;(ii)intimate relationship stress;and(iii)loss of social status.In conclusion,the paper contributes to understanding suicide attempts by men as social meaningfully events,delineating the roles and complexities associated with constructions of masculine identities.展开更多
This study examines the realizations of variable/ð/sound in Ammani Arabic(AA)as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors.Four phonetic variants([ð],[d],[z]and[&#...This study examines the realizations of variable/ð/sound in Ammani Arabic(AA)as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors.Four phonetic variants([ð],[d],[z]and[ðˤ]),four social factors(sex,age,region and educational attainment)and two linguistic factors(the position of the variant in the word and the syntactic category of the word)were investigated.To achieve the objectives of the study,40 native speakers of AA were interviewed for approximately 30 min each.A multivariate analysis using GoldVarb X was carried out in order to discern the effects of the operationalized factors on the variant choice.The results confirmed that the social and linguistic factors condition the variant choice.Additionally,the study examined the possible social meanings of variation in pronouncing the variable/ð/in AA adopting Silverstein’s(Lang Commun,23(3–4),193–229,https://doi.org/10.1016/s0271-5309(03)00013-2,2003)concept of indexical order.The sociolinguistic investigation of the variable/ð/in AA appears to suggest that it is an object of stylistic variation.展开更多
文摘Émile Durkheim’s Le Suicide(1897/2005)paved the way for the development of the sociology of suicide.However,Durkheim’s positivistic approach in studying suicide was trenchantly challenged by,amongst others,Jack Douglas,who,in Social Meanings of Suicide(1968),advocated extricating the social meanings of suicide from the interpretive tradition of social research.Drawing on Douglas’approach to the sociology of suicide,this paper reports and reflects on part of a study conducted across several rural areas of Jhenaidah,an area in Bangladesh highly affected by suicide,with 17 males who have attempted suicide.The responses of the participants were interpreted with a view to understanding the social meanings associated with their suicide attempts.Although there was a diversity of individual experiences among the participants with regard to suicide attempts,the paper synthesises these and reflects on three themes which most closely represent the commonalities of experience of the 17 men,namely:(i)inability to provide;(ii)intimate relationship stress;and(iii)loss of social status.In conclusion,the paper contributes to understanding suicide attempts by men as social meaningfully events,delineating the roles and complexities associated with constructions of masculine identities.
文摘This study examines the realizations of variable/ð/sound in Ammani Arabic(AA)as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors.Four phonetic variants([ð],[d],[z]and[ðˤ]),four social factors(sex,age,region and educational attainment)and two linguistic factors(the position of the variant in the word and the syntactic category of the word)were investigated.To achieve the objectives of the study,40 native speakers of AA were interviewed for approximately 30 min each.A multivariate analysis using GoldVarb X was carried out in order to discern the effects of the operationalized factors on the variant choice.The results confirmed that the social and linguistic factors condition the variant choice.Additionally,the study examined the possible social meanings of variation in pronouncing the variable/ð/in AA adopting Silverstein’s(Lang Commun,23(3–4),193–229,https://doi.org/10.1016/s0271-5309(03)00013-2,2003)concept of indexical order.The sociolinguistic investigation of the variable/ð/in AA appears to suggest that it is an object of stylistic variation.
