Sociolinguistics Books
Vernon Art and Science Estudios de descortesía verbal en la historia del español
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Vernon Art and Science Estudios de descortesía verbal en la historia del español
£999.99
Columbia University Press Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan
£27.00
Teachers College Press An AssetsBased Approach to Serving Multilingual International Students in Higher Education
£41.40
Cambridge University Press Cognitive Contact Linguistics
£55.00
Cambridge University Press Ancient Persian
£70.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies
£48.44
Taylor & Francis Ltd Beyond Identities in Modernity
£23.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Critical Perspectives on Teaching in the Multilingual University
£42.74
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Translating Crises
Book SynopsisTranslating and interpreting in crises is emotionally and cognitively demanding, with crisis communication in intercultural and multilingual disaster settings relying on a multitude of cross-cultural mediators and ever-emerging new technologies. This volume explores the challenges and demands involved in translating crises and the ways in which people, technologies and organisations look for effective, impactful solutions to the communicative problems.Problematising the major issues, but also providing solutions and recommendations, chapters reflect on and evaluate the role of translation and interpreting in crisis settings. Covering a diverse range of situations from across the globe, such as health emergencies, severe weather events, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, conflicts, and mass migration, this volume analyses practices and investigates the effectiveness of current approaches and communication strategies. The book considers perspectives, from interpreting specialists
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Edinburgh University Press Vocatives in Lebanese Arabic
£81.00
Continuum Publishing Corporation The Anthropology of Writing
Book SynopsisIncludes the studies that examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world. This book discusses examples including writing in areas such as farming, photo-sharing, childcare work and health care. It also brings together two important traditions of this type of study: the Anglophone and Francophone.Trade Review"An invigorating collection. With fresh terminology and fascinating cross-cultural perspectives, this book takes contemporary literacy studies to a higher plane. Its timing couldn't be better." -- Professor Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, author of Literacy in American LivesTable of ContentsPart 1: The anthropology of writing: writing as social and cultural practice; 1. What is the 'anthropology of writing'? David Barton and Uta Papen (both University of Lancaster, UK); 2. Acts of writing: when writing is doing, Beatrice Fraenke (EHESS, France); Part 2: Writing in the workplace - institutional demands; 3. Updating a biomedical database. David Pontille (EHESS, France); 4. Balancing demands from system and situation: literacy practices in a childcare workplace, Karin Tusting (University of Lancaster, UK); 5. Tracing cows: practical and administrative logics in tension, Nathalie Joly (EHESS, France); Part 3: Writing by individuals and institutions; 6. Vernacular spaces on the web. David Barton (University of Lancaster, UK); 7. Keeping a personal note-book in rural Mali: Practice, genre and the materiality of writing, Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye (EHESS, France); 8. Writing and being written about: patients as writers and recipients of health texts. Uta Papen (University of Lancaster, UK); Part 4: Historical perspectives; 9. Using Edwardian postcards to study ordinary writing, Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall (University of Lancaster, UK); 10. Legal and illegal forms of public writing in 17th century France, Anne Beroujon (UPMF Grenoble, France); 11. Writing illness: the diary of a doctor treating morphine addict in late nineteenth century France, Philippe Artieres (EHESS, France); Afterword: Current themes in the anthropology of writing. Brian Street (King's College London, UK); Bibliography; Index.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Language Learning of Adult Migrants in Europe: Theoretical, Empirical, and Pedagogical Issues
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the learning of host-country languages by migrants in Europe. It identifies, clarifies, and offers insights into issues and central questions related to the learning of host-country languages with an emphasis on adolescent and adult language learners in formal and informal settings. The book draws on data collected following the refugee ‘crisis’ in Europe of 2015-16, which led to dramatic increases in the number of migrants arriving in Europe.Trade Review Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Language as a Social Determinant of Health: Translating and Interpreting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Book SynopsisThis edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises. During the COVID-19 pandemic, limited language proficiency of the main language(s) in which information is disseminated exposed people to additional risks, and the contributors analyse risk communication plans and strategies used throughout the world to communicate measures through translation and interpreting. They show that a political willingness to understand the role of language in public health could lead local and national measures to success, sampling approaches from across four continents. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of healthcare translation and interpreting, sociolinguistics and crisis communication, as well as practitioners of risk and crisis communication and professional translators and interpreters.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Translating Health Risks: Language as a Social Determinant of HealthPart I: Terminologies and NarrativesChapter 2: Military Framing of Health Threats: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Case StudyChapter 3: Implications of Linguistic Hegemony in Translating Health Materials: COVID-19 Information in Arabic in AustraliaChapter 4: Translating the COVID-19 Pandemic across Languages and Cultures: the Case of ArgentinaPart II: Translating COVID-19 Credibility, Trust, ReliabilityChapter 5: Translation Accuracy in the Indonesian Translation of the COVID-19 Guidebook: Understanding the Relation between Medical Translation, Reception, and RiskChapter 6: Credibility in Risk Communication: Oman’s Official Arabic COVID-19 Risk Communication and Its English TranslationChapter 7: Translation as an (Ethical) Intervention? Building Trust in Healthcare Crisis CommunicationPart III: Health and Safety in Risk CommunicationChapter 8: Health and Safety Discourse in Polish and English: A Pragmalinguistic Perspective of COVID-19 CommunicationChapter 9: Risk and Safety on Cruise Ships: Communicative Strategies for COVID-19Part IV: Communities and TranslationChapter 10: Managing Communication in Public Health: Risk Perception in Crisis SettingsChapter 11: Citizen Translators’ ‘Imagined Community’ Engagement in Crisis Communication
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Transmitting Minority Languages: Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies
Book SynopsisThis book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional mechanisms and secure language maintenance. This volume brings together a broad range of studies of these alternative modes of transmission, examining the complex and diverse practical, ideological and personal challenges that arise in different settings. Beyond addressing the dynamics of language use within the home and family, the book also emphasises the importance of the participation of the minority community itself in language and cultural transmission. These mechanisms and initiatives, sometimes overlooked or dismissed in the academic literature, will prove to be essential in maintaining and ensuring the survival of minority and heritage languages into the 21st century and beyond. The twelve chapters in the book are divided into four sections (intergenerational transmission; transmission in post-traditional families; alternatives to ‘traditional’ transmission; and transmission in diasporic contexts), and the language contexts, both minoritised and diasporic, which are discussed include Basque, Breton, Galician, Guernesais, Irish, Māori, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Sorbian and Spanish. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language acquisition, heritage language maintenance and revitalization, and language policy and planning.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Intergenerational transmission.- Chapter 2. Tús Maith, A Good Start: Intervention and Intergenerational Transmission in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht.- Chapter 3. Family language policy in the face of a shrinking community language: Gaelic on the Isle of Lewis.- Part II: Transmission in post-traditional families.- Chapter 4. The transmission of Breton in the family: the effect of family rupture and recomposition.- Chapter 5. The importance of wider community stance for Irish-speaking families in the Gaeltacht.- Part III: Alternatives to ‘traditional’ transmission.- Chapter 6. Native and non-native speakers school language practices and transmission in Upper Lusatia.- Chapter 7. Kura Whakarauora: Flax-roots language planning for families in Aotearoa/New Zealand.- Chapter 8. Peer-to-peer language transmission among adults.- Chapter 9. New ways of looking at minority language transmission from the Basque context.- Chapter 10. Transmission of Breton among immersion-school students: the impact of home language.- Part IV: Transmission in diasporic contexts. Chapter 11. Comparing family language policy in Sweden, Cyprus and Estonia: efforts and choices among Russian-speaking families.- Chapter 12. Effective family language policies and intergenerational transmission of minority languages: Parental language management from autochthonous and diasporic contexts.- Chapter 13. ‘We had to make a choice’: Language management in Italian transnational adoptive.- Chapter 14. Conclusion.- Index.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives
Book SynopsisThis edited volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how identities are negotiated and a sense of belonging established in a world of increasing migration and diversity. Transcending field-specific approaches and differences in foci, the authors investigate how identity is constructed and mediated in face-to-face interactions (in real time and fictional writing), how writers use narratives to express their reorientation and their identity negotiation in a new homeland, and how material objects convey layered meaning to identity and belonging. This engagement with spoken, written and material mediation of identity resonates with recent sociolinguistic investigations on how language is connected to and intersects with embodiment, materiality and time. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of globalisation and migration studies, sociolinguistics and narrative analysis, anthropology and cultural studies. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of spoken, written and material narratives.- Chapter 2. “I have no family” –Identity constructions in an asylum interview.- Chapter 3. Who gets to tell whose story? Asylum seeker narratives in Maria Amelie’s Ulovlig norsk, Mikhail Shishkin’s Venerin volos, and the research chapter.- Chapter 4. ‘Model minorities’ in a ‘sociolinguistic paradise’: How Latin-American migrants talk about job interviews in Norway.- Chapter 5. Wielding space and time in migrant narratives: Personal and professional identities in discourse.- Chapter 6. Visual Metaphors of Migration in Museums.- Chapter 7. “An inky life line of survival”: Identity and rewriting in Scandinavian migration narratives.- Chapter 8. “It feels like now this is in our own language”: religion, authenticity and belonging.- Chapter 9. Post-script: Narratives in the construction of the experiences of migrants and transnational people.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South
Book SynopsisThis book investigates different ways in which neoliberal language and teaching policies have influenced the English language in global south countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Through the three main sub themes covered by the book, namely Neoliberalism and English Language Teaching Policies, Neoliberalism Ideology as in English Language Teaching Materials, and Experiences of Neoliberal Subjects, it investigates various aspects and means through which neoliberalism is realized in a variety of contexts.Through the first subtheme the volume covers the English language education policies of Chile, Bangladesh, India, and Morocco. The second sub theme concerns how different neoliberal values such as consumerism, entrepreneurship, and individualism are localized and constructed in the locally developed English language materials of Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The third sub theme includes studies on the impact of neoliberalization of English in relation to Colombian, Brazilian, and Pakistani stakeholders. This book is a valuable resource for academics, postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers, educators, and practitioners who are interested in neoliberalism in English language.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction – The Global South: A Platform for the Adoption of Neoliberalised English (Ali Jalalian Daghigh et al)Part I. Neoliberalism and English Language Teaching PoliciesChapter 2. The Neoliberal Blow to English Language Teaching: Deconstructing the Teacher Academy Program in Chile (Gloria Romero)Chapter 3. Neoliberalism Shaping English Language Teaching in Bangladesh: A Critical Examination (Md. Maksud Ali and Obaidul Hamid)Chapter 4. English Medium Education in India: The Neoliberal Legacy and Challenges to Multilingual Language Policy Implementation (Padmini Bhuyan Boruah and Ajit Mohanty)Chapter 5. ELT in Morocco: Postcolonial Struggles, Linguistic Imperialism and Neoliberal Tendencies (Hamza R’boul)Part II. Neoliberalism Ideology as in English Language Teaching MaterialsChapter 6. Consumerism as Lingua Franca in ELT?: Ideologies in a Thai Textbook Series (Kristof Savski)Chapter 7. Neoliberal Values of Business and Entrepreneurship in Taiwan’s EFL High School Textbooks (Ya Chen Su)Chapter 8. Working Towards Centrally Determined Levels of Proficiency: Uncovering the Neoliberal Standardization in the Vietnam-produced ELT Textbooks (Le Van Canh)Chapter 9. Consumerism in Malaysian Locally Developed ELT Textbooks (Ali Jalalian Daghigh et al)Part III. Experiences of Neoliberal Subjects Chapter 10. Exploring the Impact of Notions of Success Based on Native-Speakerism, Individualism and Neoliberalism on ESL Students’ Identities (Vander Tavares)Chapter 11. Anxiety, Desire, Doubt, and Joy: the Dualities of a Latin American Emerging Researcher During Academic Writing Processes (Zulma Xiomara Rueda Garcia)Chapter 12. Neoliberalism, Globalisation and Englishism: Exploring Ideological Assumptions Attached with the English Language in Pakistan (Sham Haidar et al)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Language and Spirit: Exploring Languages, Religions and Spirituality in Australia Today
Book SynopsisThis edited book explores stories of linguistic and spiritual identity in the urban and rural Australian landscape. It is an innovative mix of thirty six personal narratives and eleven research studies, which together offer accounts of the intersection of languages, religion and spirituality in people’s lives. Teachers of Indigenous languages speak of the critical connection between language revitalization, the spirituality of Country, and well-being. Both new and long-established diaspora individuals speak of the often complex but vital joint role of language and faith in belonging and heritage. The new dimension which the book brings to multilingualism is relevant to all complex global societies. Language and Spirit is ideal for both the general reader interested in community languages and interfaith issues, and academics in global intercultural studies and Applied Linguistics study wishing to gain a nuanced insight into the Language and Spirit intersection. Table of ContentsForewordPart I1 Introduction: Language, Identity and Spirituality Robyn Moloney Father Shenouda Mansour 2 Narratives: Living Spirituality on CountryIntroduction Aunty Louise CampbellGumbaynggirr: Opening a door to another worldMichael JarrettTeaching Gunggay: Building from the inside out.Nathan Schreiber Wiradjuri: strong kids who can speak up for themselvesAunty Diane McNaboeThe revitalization of myself Craig DuncanLanguage is about what connects us, not what sets us apart.Aunty Louise Campbell Walk with Good Spirit Corina Norman Fulfilling my Aunty’s dream Kayleen Kerwin Living Without Language Glenn Loughrey3 Narratives: Living Faiths Buddhism and ChristianityIntroduction Father Shenouda MansourMy relationship with the Heart Sutra and my motherHarumi HayakawaMy journey to BuddhismVen. MiaoyouA Russian Orthodox service: an experience of language, music and spiritualityAlex Chistiakoff My Identity as an Armenian ChristianTamara Kotoyan Language as the Canoe of the Niuean cultureMatagi Vilitama The Tongan church community Susitina Suli Roses and Thorns: My Korean experience in church Sookhee McRobertsA Family life in the Ukranian Community Jaroslav R DumaVietnamese: my heart language Dich Dao Muc The Aramaic language of the Assyrian CommunityArchbishop Mar Meelis Zaia Crossing boundaries in Australia? The religious experiences of growing up in an ethnically mixed family from the former YugoslaviaJohn Hajek4 Narratives: Living Faiths Hindu, Islam, Judaism Introduction: Father Shenouda Mansour Language for communicative onenessSwati Doshi Language and religious practice in Marathi, Hindi and SanskritMilind Sathye Multilingualism, Spirituality, Religion, in my order of importance Varsha Daithankar Sanskrit, peace and social harmonyPandit Prakash Dhodari Raising Tamil Saivite children – from Sri Lanka to AustraliaRavi Anandarajah Beginning every endeavour in the name of GodAbdullah Ibrahim The goals of teaching a language connected to a spiritual contextDr. Teuku Chalidin Yacob Language diversity at the Imama Hasan CentreZohra AlyJudaism, religion, and the Hebrew languageDiane Alperstein Teaching Hebrew in Primary school Judit Rubenstein Breaching Spiritual Language BarriersRabbi Zalman Kastel5 Narratives: Front line teaching language and spiritIntroduction Robyn Moloney Praying in Chinese: Teaching in a Bilingual Christian SchoolJianlian Liang Educating to keep language and culture alive through beliefs and traditionsMala Mehta A teaching and learning life with Arabic Melanie BrownThe role of language in religious studies in a Shia Muslim community schoolMojgan Mokhatebi Ardakani and Zainab Rizvi Singing the Spirit towards the Realm of Oneness Trish Watts‘Reawakening our language’: the story of the Nyoongar Bible translation John Harris PART II6 Aboriginal spirituality within the context of Riddim & Poetry: A creative school programDevrim Yilmaz and Michael Jarrett7 Many members, one body: a multilingual church in Central AustraliaDavid Moore8 Why should we sing to the sharks? Language reclamation and Indigenous wellbeing.Ghil’ad Zuckerman9 Multilingualism and religion in a multicultural AustraliaJames Forrest 10 A framework for the revitalisation of Coptic language in the 21st century Father Shenouda Mansour and Ounas Gerges11 Language and religion in the lives of two transnational sojournersLisa Gilanyi12 Hakha Chin language in Melbourne: a marker of cultural and spiritual identitySalai Biak Za Lian Ching, Dr Alistair Welsh, Dr Ramon Lopez Castellano13 Christian bilingual practices and hybrid identities as vehicles of migrant integrationYining Wang and Ingrid Pillar14 The Intersection of Hebrew, Judaism and Jewish SpiritualityZehavit Gross and Suzanne Rutland 15 The impact of learning language and culture on adolescents’ identity formation, enculturation and socialisation: A case study of a pluralistic faith-based schoolYona Gilead16 Journey into Indian spirituality: A Westerner perspectiveChantal Crozet 17 Some Final Words on Languages and Religion: Peacebuilding, Personal Reflections and Professional Problems Joseph Lo Bianco Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Italo-Romance Dialects in the Linguistic Repertoires of Immigrants in Italy
Book SynopsisThis edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects. Sociolinguistic research on immigrant communities in Italy has widely studied the acquisition and use of Italian as L2 by first-generation immigrants, the maintenance of immigrant languages and code-switching between Italian and the immigrant languages. However, these studies have mostly ignored or neglected to investigate immigrant speakers’ use of Italo-Romance dialects, their awareness of the sociolinguistic situation of majority and minority languages, and their attitudes towards them. Given the important role of Italo-Romance dialects in everyday communication and as a marker of regional identity, this book aims to fill this gap and understand more about the role that these languages play in the linguistic repertoire of immigrants. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, minority languages, multilingualism, migration, and social anthropology. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction (Francesco Goglia & Matthias Wolny).- Chapter 2. Palermo 2000-2020: Sicilian in old and new migrations (Mari D’Agostino & Egle Mocciaro).- Chapter 3. Neapolitan, regional and standard Italian in the linguistic repertoire of Ukrainian private carers in Naples. Sociolinguistic competence and attitudes towards a complex linguistic context (Paolo Della Putta).- Chapter 4. The linguistic repertoires of immigrant school children in Udine: a sociolinguistic study (Fabiana Fusco).- Chapter 5. Immigrant new speakers of Veneto dialect: the case of Igbo-Nigerians in Padua (Francesco Goglia).- Chapter 6. Ghanaian immigrants and the twofold potential of Italo-Romance dialects (Federica Guerini).- Chapter 7. Language attitudes of Cameroonian immigrants towards Italian dialects (Raymond Siebetcheu).- Chapter 8. The Senegalese diaspora in Rome: Romanesco and other nonstandard varieties in the face of standard language ideologies (Maya Angela Smith).- Chapter 9. Immigrants as new speakers of Italo-romance dialects. A study of sociolinguistic representations in the Emilia-Romagna region (Valeria Villa-Perez).- Chapter 10. The Venetian dialect in the communicative repertoires of Moldovan migrant caregivers (Matthias Wolny).
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Springer International Publishing AG New Migrations, New Multilingual Practices, New Identities: The Case of Post-2008 Italian Migrants in London
Book SynopsisThis book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants’ trajectories and their relation with their homeland’s migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies. Table of ContentsChapter 1: A historical phenomenon, a new migration.- Chapter 2: Methodology – Theory and Practice.- Chapter 3: The Post-2008 Crisis Italian Migration to London.- Chapter 4: The Disavowed Community and its Multilingual Practices.- Chapter 5: The New Lingua della Giobba.- Chapter 6: To Be or Not to Be (a Migrant).- Chapter 7: Othering – A Technique to Shape Migratory Identities.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.
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Palgrave Macmillan Policy Media and the Shaping of SpainMorocco Relations
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Conquest and Colonialism A Brief History of Morocco-Spain Relations.- Chapter 3: Migration to Spain and Rebuilding Fortress Europe.- Chapter 4: Migration Policies in the EU and Spain.- Chapter 5: Media Discourse in Spain.- Chapter 6: Media Discourse in Morocco.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
£33.24
Palgrave Macmillan Chinese on the Move
Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 2 The dynamics of transnational migration language and identity.- 3 Multilingual contact and communication Languages in a new land.- 4 Politics of language and identity.- 5 Visibility in the linguistic landscape.- 6 Conclusion Rethinking migration language and identity.
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De Gruyter Sprache in der DDR: Ein Wörterbuch
Book SynopsisDie deutsche Sprache entwickelte in der DDR eine besondere Prägung. In der offiziellen Sprache wurden neue Worte entwickelt, um z.B. Lehnworte aus dem Amerikanischen nicht verwenden zu müssen (z.B. Wurfrotationsflachkegel für Frisbee-Scheibe). Es wurden Begriffe erfunden, um das Leben im real existierenden Sozialismus zu beschreiben wie z.B. Arbeiterkorrespondent oder Passowmethode. Ebenso erhielten eine Vielzahl von Wörtern wie Auflage, Angestellter, Oberlehrer und Jugendförderung in der DDR eine eigene Bedeutung. Dieses Wörterbuch bietet eine faszinierende Darstellung der Sprache der DDR.
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De Gruyter Türkisch sprechen nicht nur die Türken: Über die Unschärfebeziehung zwischen Sprache und Ethnie in Deutschland
Book SynopsisUsing Hamburg as an example, this book shows that the Turkish language is well-established today in Germany's large cities and has become an integral part of everyday communication - not only for citizens of Turkish decent. In fact, teenagers and young adults of German and other heritages are learning Turkish fragmentarily or completely and using it in everyday life. The book examines the process of and social-symbolic motivation for learning Turkish, the structure of the Turkish being acquired, as well as its application in conversation.
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De Gruyter Sprachnationalismus: Sprachreflexion als Medium kollektiver Identitätsstiftung in Deutschland (1617-1945)
Book SynopsisGegenstand dieser sprach- und kulturgeschichtlich angelegten Studie ist die nationale Ideologisierung der deutschen Sprache von der Gründung der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft bis zum Ende des Dritten Reiches. Im theoretischen Teil werden zunächst moderne Nations- und Nationalismuskonzepte diskutiert und Ethnizität, Geschichte und Sprache als relevante Dimensionen nationaler Identitätskonstruktion eingeführt. Mittels der linguistischen Diskursanalyse wird im historisch-systematischen Darstellungsteil ein zeitlich breit gestreutes Korpus sprachreflexiver Texte ausgewertet. Deren Analyse zeigt, dass die im historischen Reflexionsprozess über die deutsche Sprache formulierten Ansichten, Vorstellungen und Wünsche einer doppelten Prestigesteigerung - dem der Sprache und dem der Nation - dienen und dadurch nicht nur als Indikator, sondern zugleich als Faktor nationaler Selbstimagination fungieren. Anders als bisherige Einzeluntersuchungen zum Thema verbindet diese Gesamtdarstellung den historischen Überblick über die Diskurslinien mit einer systematischen Zusammenschau wiederkehrender begrifflicher, metaphorischer und argumentativer Diskursmuster. Von ihnen werden als Ergebnis neun Prinzipien abstrahiert, die den sprachnationalistischen Diskurs epochenübergreifend konstituieren und regulieren. Damit eröffnen sie die Perspektive für eine Neubewertung der Frage nach den Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden zwischen Sprachpatriotismus und Sprachnationalismus in Deutschland.
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De Gruyter Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
Book SynopsisPurism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.
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De Gruyter Grammatik und Semantik aus gesprächsanalytischer Sicht
Book SynopsisDieses Buch stellt die Gesprächsanalyse als Methodik zur Erforschung linguistischer Fragestellungen dar. Ihr Ziel ist die umfassende Analyse sprachlicher Phänomene in ihren formalen, funktionalen und kontextuellen Dimensionen. Grundlegende Eigenschaften der verbalen Interaktion werden zunächst auf ihre sprachtheoretischen Konsequenzen befragt. Sodann werden aus ihnen methodologische Prinzipien für die Erhebung und Analyse von Gesprächskorpora entwickelt. Das methodische Vorgehen wird an einer grammatischen und einer semantischen Fragestellung demonstriert. Untersucht werden freie Infinitivkonstruktionen im gesprochenen Deutsch und die Effekte von Kontrastierungsaktivitäten auf die Semantik von Ausdrücken im Gespräch. Theoretische Basis bildet hier die Integration der Gesprächsanalyse mit der construction grammar und der kognitiven Linguistik.
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De Gruyter Geschichte des Georg-Büchner-Preises: Soziologie eines Rituals
Book SynopsisDas Ritual der Preisverleihung ist längst ein wichtiges Machtinstrument im Kulturbetrieb geworden. In Deutschland werden jährlich allein über siebenhundert Literaturpreise vergeben. Die Analyse beschäftigt sich mit Struktur, Durchführung und sozialer Wirkung von Preisverleihungen im Allgemeinen. Darüber hinaus wird exemplarisch die bedeutendste Auszeichnung für deutschsprachige Literatur untersucht: der Georg-Büchner-Preis. Im Mittelpunkt stehen u. a. die Geschichte und die jeweilige gesellschaftspolitische Funktion des Büchnerpreises seit 1923 im Zusammenspiel mit der deutschen Geschichte von der Weimarer bis zur Berliner Republik sowie die Bedeutung des Namenspatrons Georg Büchner für die nach ihm benannte Auszeichnung. Auf diese Weise tritt das vielschichtige Portrait eines bedeutenden Impulsgebers im deutschen Kulturleben hervor, dessen politisch-literarischer Doppelcharakter den Büchnerpreis immer wieder zum Politikum gemacht hat. Ausgehend vom ritualwissenschaftlichen Ansatz unternimmt die Analyse mit Hilfe kultursoziologischer Determinanten Pierre Bourdieus den Versuch, den klassischen Methodenkanon der Literaturwissenschaft um ethnologisch-anthropologische und soziologische Denk- und Arbeitsweisen zu erweitern.
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De Gruyter Nachfragen: Formen und Funktionen äußerungsbezogener Interrogationen
Book SynopsisFür Nachfragen als Teilbereich mündlicher Interrogationen wird eine umfassende theoretische und empirische Analyse geleistet. Im theoretischen Teil werden sprachwissenschaftliche Bereiche diskutiert, in denen sich Beschreibungen von Nachfragen oder speziell auch Echofragen finden (grammatische Analysen, Fragetaxonomien, Pragmatik und Relevanztheorie sowie Konversationsanalyse). Im empirischen Teil werden Nachfragen in einer umfangreichen Datensammlung in Hinblick auf strukturelle Aspekte (Wortstellung, elliptische Konstruktionen), Mittel der Bezugnahme (Fragewörter, Paraphrasierungen, Wiederholungen) sowie Nachfragefunktionen (Verständnissicherung, Signalisierung von Erstaunen, Dissens, Korrekturen etc.) analysiert. Als zentrale Funktionsparameter werden Refokussierung und Frageformat als Komponenten einer Reparaturinitiierung im Sinne der Konversationsanalyse gesehen, welche wiederum als bestimmend für formale Spezifika von Nachfragen angesehen werden kann.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Dolakha Newar
Book SynopsisA Grammar of Dolakha Newar is the first fully comprehensive reference grammar of a Newar variety. Dolakha Newar is of particular interest as it is member of the mutually unintelligible eastern branch of the family, so allows for an important comparative perspective on this significant Tibeto-Burman language. In addition to a chapter on phonetics and phonology, the book contains a separate chapter on prosody. There are also distinct chapters on each word class, with full discussion of the morphological and syntactic properties of each class. The book provides an extensive study of syntax, including complete chapters on constructions, clause structure, constituent order, grammatical relations, nominalization, complementation, the participial construction, and the complex sentence, as well as a detailed chapter on tense and aspect. Brimming with examples from natural discourse, the book couples rigorous description of the language's structures with full discussion of how the structures are used in connected speech. Each analysis is presented with full argumentation and competing analyses are contrasted and discussed. The result is a rich, readable, and beautifully argued portrait of a language and how it works.
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De Gruyter Dialectological and Folk Dialectological Concepts of Space: Current Methods and Perspectives in Sociolinguistic Research on Dialect Change
Book SynopsisIn variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue. However, different research traditions considering space coexisted for a long time separately. Traditional dialectology focused primarily on the diatopic dimension of linguistic variation, whereas in sociolinguistic studies diastratic and diaphasic dimensions were considered. For a long time only very few linguistic investigations tried to combine both research traditions in a two-dimensional design – a desideratum which is meant to be compensated by the contributions of this volume. The articles present findings from empirical studies which take on these different concepts and examine how they relate to one another. Besides dialectological and sociolinguistic concepts also a lay perspective of linguistic space is considered, a paradigm that is often referred to as “folk dialectology”. Many of the studies in this volume make use of new computational possibilities of processing and cartographically representing large corpora of linguistic data. The empirical studies incorporate findings from different linguistic communities in Europe and pursue the objective to shed light on the inter-relationship between the different concepts of space and their relevance to variational linguistics.
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De Gruyter Die Rolle der norditalienischen Varietäten in der Questione della lingua : Eine diachrone Untersuchung zu Sprachbewusstsein, Sprachwissen und Sprachbewertung
Book SynopsisDie Questione della lingua nimmt viel Raum in der Geistesgeschichte Italiens ein. Im Zentrum der Auseinandersetzung mit der Sprachnorm steht zweifelsohne das Toskanische, das in Gestalt der archaischen florentinischen Dichtersprache letztendlich über die konkurrierenden Modelle siegt. Die Arbeit zeichnet den Diskurs um die italienische Hochsprache jedoch aus einer Randperspektive nach: Sie beleuchtet die Rolle, die das Norditalienische in den Reflexionen zur Norm gespielt hat. Unter Berücksichtigung der Größen Sprachbewusstsein, Sprachwissen und Sprachbewertung wird zu diesem Zweck ein umfangreiches Korpus metasprachlicher Texte aus dem 13. bis 17. Jahrhundert ausgewertet. Die Analyse zeigt, dass norditalienische Varietäten in vielen Zeugnissen beschrieben und bewertet, im Falle einiger prestigereicher Stadtdialekte und Koinai sogar als Gegenmodell zum Toskanischen verteidigt werden. Sie führt zu einem chronologischen Profil sowie einer strukturellen Charakteristik der genannten Varietätengruppe aus der Sicht der Sprecher und legt Argumentationsstrategien bei der Bewertung von Varietäten offen. Die Befunde verstehen sich als Beitrag zu einer erweiterten Konzeption von Sprachgeschichtsschreibung und zur Rekonstruktion regionalsprachlicher Identitäten.
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole
Book SynopsisSaramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the creolization process. This is the first full-length description of Saramaccan. The grammar documents, in particular, a valence-sensitive system of indicating movement and direction via serial verb constructions, hitherto overlooked amidst the generalized phenomenon of serialization itself.
£999.99
De Gruyter Das Deutsch der Migranten
Book SynopsisMigration verändert unsere Gesellschaft nachhaltig. Sprache spielt dabei die zentrale Rolle. Sprachlich-kommunikative Prozesse bestimmen Bildungs- und Karrierechancen der Migranten, die kulturelle Teilhabe an Herkunfts- und Aufnahmekultur und die Herstellung von interpersoneller Solidarität, Ab- und Ausgrenzung. Der Jahrgangsband 2012 widmet sich dem Deutsch der Migranten in seinen linguistischen, soziologischen und pädagogischen Dimensionen. Im Brennpunkt steht, wie Migranten das Deutsche erwerben, verändern und in Relation zu den Herkunftssprachen benutzen: Wie gestaltet sich der Erwerb von Deutsch als Zweitsprache unter dem Einfluss unterschiedlicher Erstsprachen? Welche ein- und mehrsprachigen Weisen des Sprechens und Schreibens benutzen Migranten? Welche strukturellen Besonderheiten weist ihr Deutsch auf? Welche Rolle spielen Sprache und Kommunikation für die Ausbildung, Bewahrung und Transformation von Identitätsentwürfen und biographischen Selbstverständnissen? Wie gestalten sich Prozesse der sprachlichen Kommunikation von Migranten und Einheimischen? Wie hängen Sprache, Bildungs- und Berufssituation der Migranten zusammen?
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De Gruyter Plurality and Classifiers across Languages in China
Book SynopsisPlural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus onthe typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.
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de Gruyter Handbuch Sprache in sozialen Gruppen
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de Gruyter Manuale di linguistica friulana
£172.90
De Gruyter Changes Between the Lines: Diachronic contact phenomena in written Pennsylvania German
Book SynopsisThe book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and 1992 are analyzed with respect to semantic changes in the argument structure of verbs, the use of impersonal constructions, word order changes in subordinate clauses and in prepositional phrase constructions.The research objective is to trace language change based on diachronic empirical data, and to assess whether existing models of language contact make provisions to cover the long-term developments found in PG. The focus of the study is thus twofold: first, it provides a detailed analysis of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German, and second, it links the empirical findings to theoretical approaches to language contact.Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.
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De Gruyter Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to focus on the role of media in processes of linguistic change, one of the most contested issues in contemporary sociolinguistics. Its 17 chapters and five section commentaries present cutting-edge research from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, media linguistics, language ideology research, and minority language studies. The volume advances our understanding of linguistic change in a mediatized world in three ways. First, it introduces the notions of sociolinguistic change and mediatization to create a broader theoretical framing than the one offered by ‘the media’ and ‘language change’. Second, it takes the discussion beyond the notions of ‘influence’ and ‘effect’ and the binary distinction of ‘media’ vs. ‘community language’. Third, it examines the relation of sociolinguistic change and mediatization and from five complementary viewpoints: media influence on linguistic structure; media engagement in interaction; change in mass and new media language; language-ideological change; and the role of media for minority languages. Bringing these strands of sociolinguistic scholarship together, this volume examines their shared references and common lines of thinking.
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De Gruyter Indexing Authenticity: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe concept of authenticity has received some attention in recent academic discourse, yet it has often been left under-defined from a sociolinguistic perspective. This volume presents the contributions of a wide range of scholars who exchanged their views on the topic at a conference in Freiburg, Germany, in November 2011. The authors address three leading questions: What are the local meanings of authenticity embedded in large cultural and social structures? What is the meaning of linguistic authenticity in delocalised and/or deterritorialised settings? How is authenticity indexed in other contexts of language expression (e.g. in writing or in political discourse)? These questions are tackled by recognised experts in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and contact linguistics. While by no means exhaustive, the volume offers a large array of case studies that contribute significantly to our understanding of the meaning of authenticity in language production and perception.
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De Gruyter Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics
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De Gruyter Das zweigeteilte Baskenland
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