Oxford Studies in Language Contact – serie
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Language Policy and Social Reproduction
Ireland 1893-1993
Inbunden, 1997
3845 kr
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During the nineteenth century Irish-speaking communities declined almost to the point of extinction. But in 1922 the new Irish state launched a broad strategy to re-establish Irish as a national language. This book is about that policy and its impact over the last seventy years. Ó Riagáin focuses …
Language Contact in Japan
A Sociolinguistic History
Inbunden, 1996
4074 kr
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The Japanese are often characterized as exclusive and ethnocentric, yet a close examination of their linguistic and cultural history reveals a very different picture: although theirs is essentially a monolingual speech community they emerge as a people who have been significantly influenced by …
Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism
A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Inbunden, 1997
4557 kr
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This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She …
Language Contact and Change
Spanish in Los Angeles
Häftad, 1996
1096 kr
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Languages in a situation of contact, whether they are receding or being maintained by their speakers, are characterized by constant and rapid change. Thus they provide a testing ground for hypotheses about processes of linguistic change. In this original study of an intergenerational sample of …
Language Obsolescence and Revitalization
Linguistic Change in Two Sociolinguistically Contrasting Welsh Communities
Inbunden, 1998
4454 kr
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The territorial contraction and speaker-reduction undergone by the Welsh language during the past few centuries has resulted in its categorization by many linguists as an obsolescent language. This study illustrates that, although it is undeniably showing some signs of decline, Welsh stands in …
A Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift
Arvanitika (Albanian) and Greek in Contact
Inbunden, 1998
1371 kr
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Lukas D. Tsitsipis explores a case of linguistic shift in the Balkans. He focuses on Arvanitika, an Albanian variety spoken in Greece which is under threat through a process of attrition. Various factors relating the linguistic to the non-linguistic aspects of the shift are examined in detail. The …
The Languages of Jerusalem
Av Bernard Spolsky, Robert L. Cooper
Inbunden, 1991
1213 kr
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The Old City of Jerusalem, small and densely populated, is a complex microcosm of Israeli society. It is a multilingual community characterized by unequal power relations between the speakers of the two official languages of Israel - Arabs and Jews. The authors begin with a sociolinguistic sketch …
Social Motivations for Codeswitching
Evidence from Africa
Häftad, 1995
1206 kr
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This is the first book-length treatment of the social motivations for codeswitching, that is, the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts (mostly from conversations studied in Kenya), Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical …
Language, Education, and Development
Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 1992
3062 kr
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Papua New Guinea's struggle for development is intimately bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin which is the product of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Pacific. The language has since become the most important lingua franca in the region, being spoken by more than a …
Mobilian Jargon
Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin
Inbunden, 1997
4232 kr
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The study of Native American languages has traditionally paid little attention to linguistic convergence, just as linguists focusing on language contact have often neglected Native American cases. Drawing both on fieldwork and on archival research Emanuel Drechsel presents a grammatical, …
Language, Identity, and Social Division
The Case of Israel
Inbunden, 1994
545 kr
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The shift to Hebrew as a national language is at the root of the creation of Israel, yet many Jewish former immigrants still use the language of their country of origin. Ultra-orthodox communities retain their own codes, and the use of Arabic remains a clear marker of the Israeli-Arab town and …
Dialects Converging
Rural Speech in Urban Norway
Inbunden, 1994
1412 kr
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Recent models of dialect contact, notably in the work of Trudgill, Chambers, James Milroy, and Labov have stressed the importance of the notions of salience, simplification, linguistic complexity, and the speech community in accounting for the patterns that arise. In this case-study of the speech …
Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction
The Case of French in Ontario, Canada
Av Raymond Mougeon, Édouard Beniak
Inbunden, 1991
902 kr
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The description of minority or threatened languages with a view to documenting the linguistic consequences of language contact and restriction has now emerged as a distinct area of investigation within sociolinguistics. In this book, Raymond Mougeon and Édouard Beniak present a series of analyses …
Dynamics of a Contact Continuum
Singaporean English
Av Ho Mian-Lian, John T. Platt
Inbunden, 1993
678 kr
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Singaporean English is an indigenized variety of the language which has developed chiefly through English-medium education. The authors of this book investigate the various factors influencing the indigenization of the language and its use in the family and the wider community. They present the …
Beach-la-Mar to Bislama
The Emergence of a National Language in Vanuatu
Inbunden, 1990
2357 kr
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Oxford Studies in Language ContactSeries editors: Professor Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, Oxford and Dr Peter Mülhäusler, Linacre College, Oxford This series aims to make available a collection of research monographs which present case studies of language contact around the world. The series …
Language Selection and Switching in Strasbourg
Inbunden, 1991
746 kr
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The term `code-switching' is used to describe the mixing of different language varieties which often results from language contact. Penelope Gardner-Chloros presents the first full-length study of code-switching in a European context. Throughout history, Alsace has been a meeting point of the Roman …
Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism
A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Häftad, 2004
1137 kr
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Examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American and one Norwegian parent. Investigates the issue of language mixing in relation to language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the …
