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Intralatino Language And Identity - Mexirican Spanish

by Potowski Kim Potowski

109,98€ + 10% CARD

 The increasing diversity of the U.S. Latino population has given rise to a growing population of "mixed" Latinos. This is a study of such individuals raised in Chicago, Illinois who have one Mexican parent and one Puerto Rican parent, most of whom call themselves "MexiRicans." Given that these two varieties of Spanish exhibit highly salient differences, these speakers can be said to experience intrafamilial dialect contact. The book first explores the lexicon, discourse marker use, and phonological features among two generations of over 70 MexiRican speakers, finding several connections to parental dialect, neighborhood demographics, and family dynamics. Drawing from critical mixed race theory, it then examines MexiRicans’ narratives about their ethnic identity, including the role of Spanish features in the ways in which they are accepted or challenged by monoethnic, monodialectal Mexicans and Puerto Ricans both in Chicago and abroad. These findings contribute to our understandings of dialect contact, U.S. Spanish, and the role of language in ethnic identity.
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Endangered Languages And Languages In Danger - Issues Of Documentation, Policy, And Language Rights

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 This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today’s globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker populations and lack of adequate preservation policies or inequality in different social contexts (e.g. access to justice, education and research resources). There are examples of both loss and survival, and discussion of multiple factors that condition these two different outcomes. We pose and answer difficult questions such as whether forced interventions in preventing loss are always warranted or indeed viable. The emerging shared perspective is that of hope to inspire action towards improving the position of different languages and their speakers through research of this kind.
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Linguistic Purism - Language Attitudes In France And Quebec

by Walsh Olivia Walsh

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 This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social, political and economic history. Three different levels of society are examined (official, group and individual), allowing a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’. This is a key element in recent discussions of language planning but is rarely provided in studies of French. The study is also the first to apply to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991), and has evaluated and refined this, enhancing the theoretical underpinnings of the field. The book will be of interest not only to French scholars and sociolinguists, but also to scholars of language planning, language policy and language ideologies in all languages.
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Written Questionnaire In Social Dialectology - History, Theory, Practice

by Dollinger Stefan Dollinger

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 Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book is the first monograph-length account on written questionnaires in more than 60 years. It reconnects - for the newcomer and the more seasoned empirical linguist alike - the older questionnaire tradition, last given serious treatment in the 1950s, with the more recent instantiations, reincarnations and new developments in an up-to-date, near-comprehensive account. A disciplinary history of the method sets the scene for a discussion of essential theoretical aspects in dialectology and sociolinguistics. The book is rounded off by a step-by-step practical guide - from study idea to data analysis and statistics - that includes hands-on sections on Excel and the statistical suite R for the novice.This book has a companion website: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/impact.40.website">http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/impact.40.website</a>
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Responses To Language Varieties - Variability, Processes And Outcomes

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 This book is about responses to language variety — their variability, shape, and content, as well as the variable cognitive and neural pathways underlying them. The chapters explore access to, processing of, and outcomes of that diversity and complexity. Many traditions are represented: from social psychology come classic experimental methods as well as more current discourse-based analyses; anthropology is represented in indexicality, iconization, recursivity, erasure, enregisterment, and ideologies; the sociolinguistic focus on specific rather than global elements that trigger responses is highlighted. The individual chapters address a variety of questions concerning language attitude, belief, and ideology, in some cases singly, in others with a more general focus, including attempts to relate one style of research to another. If we accept the fact that individuals house great variability in the underlying cognitive structures that inform responses, it follows that no single way of eliciting and studying them will do. This book provides a tour of the emerging tools that have been productive in such investigations.
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Language And Material Culture

by Burkette Allison Paige Burkette

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 This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study of material culture, and a general introduction to the study of complex adaptive systems. Following this general introduction, the principles of complexity theory are demonstrated in data drawn from linguistics and material culture studies. Language and Material Culture further highlights the principles of complexity through a series of case studies, using data from the Linguistic Atlas, colonial American inventories and the Historic American Building Survey. LMC shows that language and material culture are intertwined as they interact within the same cultural complex system. The book is designed for students in courses that focus on language variation, American English and material culture, in addition to general courses on applications of complex systems.
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Language Development - The Lifespan Perspective

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 Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches. Linguistic changes are discussed against the background of cognitive, somatic and social factors. Bringing the resulting contributions together, the volume aims to resume the discussion of contradictions between the models of change and constancy over an individual's lifespan that have not been sufficiently resolved to date. The volume is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary reference resource for those conducting research on language development and the aging process and as a supplementary course book on language variability and change.
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Gender Across Languages - Volume 4

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 This is the fourth volume of a comprehensive reference work which provides systematic descriptions of the manifestations of gender in languages of diverse areal, typological and socio-cultural affiliations. To the 30 languages already analysed in previous volumes, Vol. 4 adds another 12 languages whose gendered structures have received little or no academic attention in the past. Again, the collection includes a broad spectrum of languages: It contains languages with and without grammatical gender, a language with noun classification and a classifier language; larger national languages as well as smaller languages with minority status; and, of course, members of diverse language families, i.e. Indo-European as well as Finno-Ugrian, Iroquois, Tai-Kadai and Niger-Congo. The volume illustrates the tremendous variation found in the area of gender representation across languages. At the same time, it will provide the much-needed material required for an explicitly comparative approach to linguistic manifestations of gender.
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Education In Languages Of Lesser Power - Asia-Pacific Perspectives

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 The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of such communities. Some receive strong government support, while others receive none. For some indigenous languages, the same government schools that once tried to stamp out indigenous languages are now the vehicles of language revival. As the various chapters in this book show, some parents strongly support the use of languages other than the national language in education, while others are actively against it, and perhaps a majority have ambivalent feelings. The overall meta-theme that emerges from the collection is the need to view the teaching and learning of these languages in relation to the different needs of the speakers within a sociolinguistics of mobility.
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Displacement, Language Maintenance And Identity - Sudanese Refugees In Australia

by Hatoss Aniko Hatoss

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 Presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts.
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Gender And Language In Sub-Saharan Africa - Tradition, Struggle And Change

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 Looks at some 'traditional' uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves. This title also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse.
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Language Policy And Identity Construction - The Dynamics Of Cameroon''S Multilingualism

by Anchimbe Eric A. Anchimbe

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 Focusing on the dynamics of Cameroon's multilingualism, this book contributes to debates on the impact of politic language policy on daily language use in sociocultural and interpersonal interactions, multiple identity construction, and indigenous language teaching and empowerment.
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Pragmatic Variation In First And Second Language Contexts - Methodological Issues

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 Suitabe for those who study pragmatics, discourse analysis, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and language variation, this title examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts.
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Multilingualism

by Aronin Larissa Aronin e Singleton David Singleton

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 Offers an account of multilingualism, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. This book focuses on the knowledge and use of multiple languages. It deals with both bilingualism and polyglottism, at the level of the individual speaker as well as at the societal level.
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Language Legislation And Linguistic Rights - Selected Proceedings Of The Language Legislation And Linguistic Rights Conference, The University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, March, 1996

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 A collection of papers that examine the conflict between linguistic idealism and political and economic realism, focusing on the "language rights" of minorities across the world. Areas covered include: Spanish in the USA; Sri Lanka; South Africa; the deaf in Brazil; Russia; and Quebec.
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Neighborhood And Ancestry - Variation In The Spoken Arabic Of Maiduguri, Nigeria

by Owens Jonathan Owens

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 This work arises from a research project designed to present a sociolinguistic profile of native Arabic in a minority context. It is one of the few studies to date using a corpus-based approach to linguistic variation outside the context of European languages.
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Language Choices - Conditions, Constraints, And Consequences

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 This volume concerns various aspects of the theory and application of language conflict phenomena seen from an interdisciplinary perspective. The focus is on linguistic, social, psychological and educational issues involved in the status and use of languages in multilingual settings.
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Approaching Dialogue - Talk, Interaction And Contexts In Dialogical Perspectives

by Linell Per Linell

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 Dealing with dialogue, this work addresses two issues. The primary focus is on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction; secondly, the work explores the possiblities and limitations in dialogism as a general epistemology for cognition and communication.
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Language, Gender And Sexual Identity - Poststructuralist Perspectives

by Motschenbacher Heiko Motschenbacher

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 Presents a critical perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view. This title provides an outline of Queer approaches to issues of language, gender and sexual identity that is of interest to students and scholars new to the field.
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Language Contact - New Perspectives

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 The study of languages in contact is an ever-relevant topic in linguistics, especially at present times when increasing globalization leads to a number of new contact situations. This title features ten papers on various aspects of language contact by leading specialists in the field.
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Minority Languages And Group Identity - Cases And Categories

by Edwards John Edwards

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 Much of the interest in minority languages revolves around issues of identity politics, language rights and the plight of 'endangered' languages. This book summarizes and analyzes these pivotal themes. It focuses on the relationship between language and group identity, a relationship that is thrown into greatest relief in 'minority' settings.
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Sociolinguistic Variation In Contemporary French

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 Divided into three main sections on Phonology, Syntax and Semantics, this volume on variation in French aims to provide a snapshot of the state of sociolinguistic research inside and outside metropolitan France. It is suitable for advanced undergraduates and post-graduate students of French and specialists in the field.
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Variation In Indigenous Minority Languages

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 Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
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Social Lives In Language - Sociolinguistics And Multilingual Speech Communities - Celebrating The Work Of Gillian Sankoff

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 This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world's speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
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