Contested languages : the hidden multilingualism of Europe /

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"This is the first volume entirely dedicated to Contested Languages. While generally listed in international language atlases, Contested Languages usually fall through the cracks of research: excluded from the literature on minority languages and treated as mere ensembles of geographically defi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tamburelli, Marco (Editor ), Tosco, Mauro (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Colección:Studies in world language problems ; v. 8.
Temas:
Linguistic minorities > Europe.
Anthropological linguistics > Europe.
Minorités linguistiques > Europe.
Ethnolinguistique > Europe.
Anthropological linguistics.
Language and languages.
Linguistic minorities.
Europe > Languages.
Europe > Langues.
Europe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contested Languages
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. What are contested languages and why should linguists care?
  • 1. What are contested languages?
  • 2. Ausbau-centrism
  • 3. What is the contribution of this volume?
  • 4. The conclusion of an introduction
  • References
  • Section 1. The broader picture
  • Chapter 2. Contested languages and the denial of linguistic rights in the 21st century
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The failure of ausbau-centric linguistics
  • 3. Self-perception: A reliable taxonomical alternative?
  • 4. Taking abstand seriously: The intelligibility criterion
  • 4.1 Asymmetry, or "non-reciprocal" intelligibility
  • 4.2 Attitudes and motivation
  • 4.3 Intelligibility as a way forward
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Democracy: A threat to language diversity?
  • 1. The difficult life of the objects of the third kind
  • 2. The unstoppable aggrandisement of government
  • 3. Language and welfare
  • 4. Neutering diversity
  • 5. Language-preserving boundaries?
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Section 2. Identifying and perceiving contested languages
  • Chapter 4. Mixing methods in linguistic classification: A hidden agenda against multilingualism? The contestedness of Gallo-"Italic" languages within the Romance family
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Geographical introduction
  • 1.2 Problem statement. Two competing groupings for Romance varieties
  • 1.3 Some representative contributions of the two competing traditions
  • 1.4 Ausbau vs. Abstand
  • 1.5 Classificatory criteria and distinct classifications
  • 1.6 Possible causes for the disagreement between pro-Gallo- and pro-Italo- traditions
  • 2. Issues with the "Mixed criterion tradition"
  • 2.1 Scientific classifications
  • 2.2 The ontological problem in Pellegrini (1975), 'The five systems of Italo-Romance'
  • 2.3 Pellegrini and the exceptional "fragmentation" of Italo-Romance
  • 2.4 The ad hoc problem in Loporcaro (2009), 'Profilo linguistico dei dialetti italiani'
  • 3. Preliminary conclusions
  • 4. Some considerations and questions for future research
  • 4.1 Nationalist ideology
  • References
  • Chapter 5. The cost of ignoring degrees of Abstand in defining a regional language: Evidence from South Tyrol
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sociolinguistic bilingualism: The South Tyrolean case
  • 3. Bilingualism: Who is bilingual and when?
  • 4. Measuring bilingualism: An empirical approach
  • 5. First empirical study: Measuring intelligibility between Standard German and Bavarian
  • 5.1 Design and procedure
  • 5.2 Materials and stimuli
  • 5.3 Participants
  • 5.4 Results
  • 5.5 Discussion and summary
  • 6. Second empirical study: South Tyroleans' receptive language comprehension in German
  • 6.1 Design and Procedure
  • 6.2 Materials and stimuli
  • 6.3 Participants
  • 6.4 Results
  • 6.5 Discussion and Summary
  • 7. Conclusion

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