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Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities : celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff /
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 s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social Lives in Language -Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities; Editorial page; Title page ; LCC data ; Dedication ; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Why sociolinguistics cares about multilingual speech communities; 2. The curious monolingual bias of sociolinguistics; 3. Questions asked and questions answered; 3.1 Historical linguistics and sociolinguistics; 3.2 The sociolinguistic variable and multilingual/contact linguistics; 3.3 Practical monolingualism; 4. The monolingual bias in quantitative perspective.
- 5.A highly social life in language: Gillian Sankoff's contribution to the sociolinguistics of multilingual speech communitiesReferences; Photos of Gillian; Biographies of contributorsand email addresses; Part I Language Ideology; Language, mobility and (in)security; 1. Introduction; 2. Language variation and norms of interaction; 3. Language insecurity and ideologies; 4. Language and mobility within Canada; 5. Conclusion; References; Language repertoires and the middle-class in urban Solomon Islands; 1. Multilingualism and linguistic repertoires in the Solomon Islands.
- 2. Of repertoires and shift in Honiara3. Language and the middle-class in Honiara; 4. Conclusion; References; Land, language and identity; 1. Introduction; 2. The structure of Gurindji Kriol; 3. The socio-political and linguistic history of the Gurindji people; 3.1 Pre-contact history and the language situation; 3.2 The European invasion and its effect on the language ecology; 3.3 The Gurindji people today; 4. Land, language and identity
- motivations for the formation of a mixed language; 5 . Conclusion: The future of Gurindji Kriol; References; List of abbreviations.
- "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it"1. Introduction; 2. Nomenclature and exemplification; 3. Characterisations of tsotsitaal; 4. A unified account of tsotsitaal; 5. An English tsotsitaal?; 6. Conclusion; References; Tok Bokis, Tok Piksa; 1. Bosavi background; 2. The written texts: The Good News Bible and the Nupela Testamen; 3. Mark 4, 1- 20, with some deletions; 4. Tok bokis, tok piksa: Parables in Tok Pisin; 5. Tok bokis, tok piksa in Bosavi; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Appendix A; Part II. Bridging Macro- and Micro-sociolinguistics.
- Chiac in context1. Introduction; 2. Acadian French: An overview; 3. Acadian French and contact with English: The early research; 4. Chiac as a contact variety: Later research; 5. Chiac as a contact variety: An evaluation; 5.1 Semantic and syntactic reanalysis of words of English origin; 5.2 Borrowed discourse markers and their effects; 5.3 Loanwords across word classes; 5.4 Borrowed verb + particle combinations and their effects; 6. Conclusion; References; How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community; 1. A short career as a demographer; 1.1 The data ; 1.2 The projections.