Sociolinguistics Books
De Gruyter Sprachliche und kommunikative Praktiken
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De Gruyter Indigene Sprachen in Mexiko
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De Gruyter Hate Speech: Linguistic Perspectives
Book SynopsisHate speech has been extensively studied by disciplines such as social psychology, sociology, history, politics and law. Some significant areas of study have been the origins of hate speech in past and modern societies around the world; the way hate speech paves the way for harmful social movements; the socially destructive force of propaganda; and the legal responses to hate speech. On reviewing the literature, one major weakness stands out: hate speech, a crime perpetrated primarily by malicious and damaging language use, has no significant study in the field of linguistics. Historically, pragmatic theories have tended to address language as cooperative action, geared to reciprocally informative polite understanding. As a result of this idealized view of language, negative types of discourse such as harassment, defamation, hate speech, etc. have been neglected as objects of linguistic study. Since they go against social, moral and legal norms, many linguists have wrongly depicted those acts of wrong communication as unusual, anomalous or deviant when they are, in fact, usual and common in modern societies all over the world.The book analyses the challenges legal practitioners and linguists must meet when dealing with hate speech, especially with the advent of new technologies and social networks, and takes a linguistic perspective by targeting the knowledge the linguist can provide that makes harassment actionable.
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De Gruyter Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People
Book SynopsisSign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented and are therefore under serious threat of being lost.The chapters compiled in this volume document important aspects of past and present experiences of elderly Deaf signers across Europe, as well as in Israel and the United States. Issues addressed include (i) historical events and how they were experienced by Deaf people, (ii) issues of identity and independence, (iii) aspects of language change, (iv) experiences of suppression and discrimination. The stories shared by elderly signers reveal intriguing, yet hidden, aspects of Deaf life. On the negative side, these include experiences of the Deaf in Nazi Germany and occupied countries and harsh practices in educational settings, to name a few. On the positive side, there are stories of resilience and vivid memories of school years and social and professional life.In this way, the volume contributes in a significant way to the preservation of the cultural and linguistic heritage of Deaf communities and sheds light on lesser known aspects against an otherwise familiar background. This publication has been made possible within the SIGN-HUB project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
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De Gruyter Language, Migration and Multilingualism in the Age of Digital Humanities
Book SynopsisLocated at the intersection of humanities and applied informatics, the fledgling discipline of Digital Humanities is bringing new impulses to the field of (Romance) linguistics. Those are especially productive in the context of migration and heteroglossic practices, which encounter constraining language ideologies in Western societies. The aim of this volume is to critically reflect on both the usefulness and limitations of digitization in different areas and superdiverse contexts of the Spanish-speaking world. Through 11 case studies, it illuminates the digital turn from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, providing a better understanding of the complex interplay between language and digitization.
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De Gruyter Neoliberalism and Language Shift: Lessons from the Republic of Ireland Post-2008
Book SynopsisWhile "economic forces" are often cited as being a key cause of language loss, there is very little research that explores this link in detail. This work, based on policy analysis and ethnographic data, addresses this deficit. It examines how neoliberalism, the dominant economic orthodoxy of recent decades, has impacted the vitality of Irish in the Republic of Ireland since 2008. Drawing on concepts well established in public policy studies, but not prominent in the subfield of language policy, the neoliberalisation of Irish-language support measures is charted, including the disproportionately severe budget cuts they received. It is argued that neoliberalism’s antipathy towards social planning and redistributive economic policies meant that supports for Irish were inevitably hit especially hard in an era of austerity. Ethnographic data from Irish-speaking communities reinforce this point and illustrate how macro-level economic disruptions can affect language use at the micro-level. Labour market transformations, emigration and the dismantling of community institutions are documented, along with many related developments, thereby highlighting an issue of relevance to communities around the world, the fundamental tension between neoliberalism and language revitalisation efforts.
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De Gruyter Intimität in der Sprache
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De Gruyter Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation
Book SynopsisLinguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology. In spite of their similar research agendas, the two approaches have only rarely converged in the description and interpretation of variation. While a number of studies attempting to address at least aspects of this relationship have appeared in recent years, a principled discussion on how the two disciplines may interact has not yet been carried out in a programmatic way. This volume aims to fill this gap and offers a cross-disciplinary venue for discussing the bridging between sociolinguistic and typological research from various angles, with the ultimate goal of laying out the methodological and conceptual foundations of an integrated research agenda for the study of linguistic variation.
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De Gruyter Sprache(n) in pädagogischen Settings
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De Gruyter Sociofonética andaluza
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De Gruyter Multimodale Interaktionsanalyse
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de Gruyter Représenter La Parole
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De Gruyter Child Agency in Family Language Policy: Growing up Multilingual and Multiliterate
Book Synopsis Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children’s verbal communication skills and are conducted from the parents’ perspective. This book describes a child’s mostly self-directed and near-simultaneous multilingual and multiliterate development from birth to age 8. The present findings thus emphasize the critical role of child agency, and they may redefine and expand on the traditional theoretical framework of family language policy.
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De Gruyter Sprachen Der Wachsamkeit
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De Gruyter Sprache - Bewegung - Instruktion
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De Gruyter The Digital (R)Evolution of Legal Discourse: New Genres, Media, and Linguistic Practices
Book SynopsisThe primary goal of this book is to reach a better understanding of how the digital revolution has affected language and discourse practices in the field of law. It also explores the complex nature of the techniques and discursive strategies which emerge in the relationship between the different stakeholders (including non-experts) thanks to technological advances. By adopting a discourse analytical perspective which combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book explores the hybridity of new genres and communicative processes. It provides an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as any solutions already adopted in their professional areas. Their insights converge in a truly multidisciplinary effort to devise and build advanced networks of knowledge to facilitate the interpretation of data in the field of legal linguistics - with a specific focus on digitalisation processes which concern contemporary legal discourse. The book is meant for scholars interested in the evolution of the interconnection between language and law in digital environments. It also addresses law and linguistics students, ideally with some training in language analysis and particular interest in new media and genres. All necessary linguistic or legal technicalities are, however, approached while bearing in mind a wide range of potential backgrounds and levels of education.
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De Gruyter Language Contact in Sanandaj: A Study of the Impact of Iranian on Neo-Aramaic
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the city has been home to a significant Jewish community. The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of the town displays different historical layers of contact with various Iranian languages over the course of many centuries. The Iranian languages in question are Gorani, Kurdish, and Persian. Among these, Gorani has had a particularly deep impact on Jewish Neo-Aramaic, whereas the impact of Kurdish, and especially Persian, remains superficial. Jewish Neo-Aramaic records a history of language shift from Gorani to Kurdish in the region. The book offers insights into contact-induced change in social contexts in which a language is maintained as a demarcation of communal identity in a multilingual setting.
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De Gruyter Multilingualism Migration and Domestic Work
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de Gruyter Sprache in Beiden Deutschen Staaten
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de Gruyter El Vocativo En El Español Coloquial Actual
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De Gruyter Language contact in Europe: Proceedings of the working groups 12 and 13
Book SynopsisOver the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
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De Gruyter Dialect Levelling in Limburg: Structural and sociolinguistic aspects
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural variation. This process affects variation both in the cross-dialectal and in the dialectal-standard language dimension (in German dialectology referred to as Ausgleich and Abbau, respectively). The study is based on a research project on an originally rural Limburg dialect of Dutch. On the basis of a survey of the relatively rare relevant literature, a sociolinguistic model of dialect levelling is developed. A model is also proposed for embedding the study of this special type of linguistic change in formal phonological theory; this model centres on the role of the syllable in phonological processes. After a sketch of the social history and the dialect situation of the research area as well as an exposition of the methodology, descriptions and (mainly formal) explanations of the 21 dialect features at issue are presented. The approach is basically sociolinguistic and the analysis of the fieldwork data primarily quantitative. The patterns that emerge in the processes of the levelling out of the dialect features are related to both internal and external factors. In accounting for the findings, methods and insights from historical linguistics, dialectology as well as (linear and non-linear) phonological theory play an important role. After a discussion of the findings, the outlines are sketched of a theory of dialect levelling. The possibilities as well as some of the problems are discussed of an integration of the study of language variation and change on the hand and formal linguistic theory on the other.
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De Gruyter Language Contact across the North Atlantic: Proceedings of the Working Groups held at the University College, Galway (Ireland), 1992 and the University of Göteborg (Sweden), 1993
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers which have been revised and extended for publication from two working groups held at conferences at Galway (1992) and Göteborg (1993) which celebrated the quincentenary of Columbus' discovery of America in 1492. The pre-Columbian period of language contact is covered by articles on Old Norse in the Faroes, Scotland and Ireland, the Shetland dialect and Norn, and placenames in Iceland and Greenland. The articles on the post-Columbian period are wide-ranging and cover, in the Scandinavian context, the Scandinavian emigration, American Swedish, American Finnish, Swedish-Spanish and various aspects of Norwegian in America and also in Spitzbergen; in the British colonial context, English dialects in New England, Scottish Gaelic in Nova Scotia and Scots in North America (Maryland, the Appalachians and Virginia); in the context of the later continental mass emigration, American Dutch, Texas German, Croatian and Italian. Two papers deal with reverse emigration, that of Sicilian and Calabrian dialects, and the special case of Krio in Sierra Leone.
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De Gruyter Bilingual Acquisition of Intonation: A Study of Children Speaking German and English
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the acquisition of intonation by German/English bilingual children. Intonation is analysed both auditorily and instrumentally, and the transcription system of the British Tradition and the ToBI system in the autosegmental-metrical approach of intonation analysis are employed. Based on longitudinal data of three children comprising the ages 2 years 1 month (2;1) to 5 years 6 months (5;6), the acquisition sequence for the phonological rules and phonetic production of nucleus placement, pitch and intonational phrasing is sketched. Some phonological functions of nucleus placement and pitch such as the marking of contrast or the type of speech act are mastered as early as 2;1 whilst intonational phrasing is first used phonologically at 4;6. Mastery of the phonetic production of all three intonational systems is acquired much later, and acquisition is not completed yet at 5;6. In general, interindividual differences and a clear separation of both language systems are apparent in all children, with a considerable time lag in the acquisition of the weaker language. It is concluded that both transcription systems for intonation need to be modified for the analysis of child speech and that the autosegmental-metrical approach with its distinction between the phonological and the phonetic level proves a more flexible and descriptively valuable tool.
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De Gruyter Morphological Change Up Close: Two and a Half Centuries of Verbal Inflection in Nuremberg
Book SynopsisUsing a data base of more than 86,000 verb tokens taken from a collection of autograph texts written by fifty-one different natives of Nuremberg between 1356 and 1619, this book explores some of the many changes in verbal inflection that took place during the Early New High German period and the implications of these changes for a number of important issues in morphological and diachronic theory. Nearly all instances of change or variation in verbal inflection observable in the texts are described. Changes discussed at greater length include: the leveling of certain stem-vowel alternations among the strong, weak, and preterite-present verbs; the leveling of the consonant alternations attributed to Verner's Law; regularizations of originally strong and preterite-present verbs and irregularizations of originally weak verbs; shifts in the lexical distribution of the past-participle prefix ge-; and changes in many forms of the verb sein. The nature and size of the data base, the number and diversity of writers included, and innovative methods of data collection and analysis make possible a description of these changes that is in many cases more detailed than any previously available account. This empirical work provides a foundation for the discussion of a number of theoretical questions, including: the role of factors such as iconicity, system congruity and type and token frequency in morphological change; the directionality of analogical leveling; the adequacy of connectionist and related models of morphological processing; the nature of morphological haplology; and the relationship between sociolinguistic variation and diachronic change.
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De Gruyter Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages
Book SynopsisContents: Christian Uffmann, Markedness, faithfulness and creolization: The retention of the unmarked. - Albert Valdman/Iskra Iskrova, A new look at nazalization in Haitian Creole. - Emmanuel Nikiema/Parth Bhatt, Two types of R deletion in Haitian Creole. - Sabine Lappe/Ingo Plag, Rules versus analogy: Modeling variation in word-final epenthesis in Sranan. - Norval Smith, New evidence from the Past: To epenthesize or not to epenthesize, that is the question. - Emmanuel Schang, Syllabic structure and creolization in Saotomense. - Anne-Marie Brousseau, The accentual system of Haitian Creole: The role of transfer and markedness values. - David Sutcliffe, African American English suprasegmentals: A study of pitch patterns in the Black English of the United States. - Winford James, The role of tone and rhyme structure in the organisation of grammatical morphemes in Tobagonian. - Shelome Gooden, Prosodic contrast in Jamaican Creole reduplication. - Thomas Klein, Syllable structure and lexical markedness in creole morphophonology: Determiner allomorphy in Haitian and elsewhere. - Margot van den Berg, Early 18th century Sranan -man. - Patrick Steinkrüger, Morphological processes of word formation in Chabacano (Philippine Spanish Creole). - Nicholas Faraclas, The -pela suffix in Tok Pisin and the notion of >simplicity< in Pidgin and Creole languages: What happens to morphology under contact? - Tonjes Veenstra, What verbal morphology can tell us about creole genesis: the case of French-related creoles. - Marlyse Baptista, Inflectional plural marking in pidgins and creoles: a comparative study. - Alain Kihm, Inflectional categories in creole languages.
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De Gruyter Sprachbezogenes Wissen in der Lebenswelt des Alltags
Book SynopsisNicht allein Sprachwissenschaftler, auch Alltagssprecher tun mehr als sich der Sprache bloß zu bedienen. Sie denken über sprachliche Fragen nach, unterhalten sich untereinander über sprachliche Themen und hegen mitunter dezidierte Vorstellungen über Sprache und Sprachliches. Die vorliegende Arbeit will durch drei unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen Genaueres über diese bislang nur spärlich erforschten sprachbezogenen Ansichten und Wissensbestände innerhalb der Alltagswelt in Erfahrung bringen. Ausgangspunkt hierfür sind die Ansätze zur Erforschung des Alltags, die von Alfred Schütz und anderen Vertretern der Phänomenologischen Soziologie entwickelt wurden. Der erste Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang von Wissen, Bewußtheit, Reflexion und Sprache sowie mit der Formulierung eines Wissensbegriffs, der die Gegebenheiten der Alltagswelt angemessen reflektiert. Die beiden anderen Teile sind empirisch angelegt. Im zweiten Teil werden zahlreiche, anhand eines maschinellen Verfahrens ermittelte sprachreflexive Ausdrücke des Deutschen vorgestellt und daraufhin untersucht, ob sie innerhalb der Alltagswelt gebräuchlich sind oder nicht und was dies über das alltagsweltliche Wissen über Sprache und Sprachliches besagt. Im Zentrum des dritten Teils steht eine Studie zu typischen Situationen alltagsweltlicher Sprachreflexion, die nicht nur Aufschluß über die Inhalte besagten Wissens gibt, sondern auch über dessen Funktion innerhalb der Alltagswelt.
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De Gruyter Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten: Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 bis 1785
Book SynopsisDie Debatte um die Norm des Hochdeutschen im letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts wurde nicht nur mit linguistischen Argumenten geführt, sondern auch mit kulturkritischen und moralischen. Gegen die Dominanz der Sächsischen Sprachkundler formierte sich mit Friedrich Karl Fulda, Johann Gottlieb Hartmann und Johannes Nast in Schwaben eine Opposition, die durch eine alternative Sprachnorm eine sittliche Erneuerung Deutschlands erreichen wollte. Die Studie fragt, wie es zu so unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen im Sprachdenken einer Zeit kommen kann. Durch die Verschränkung verschiedener sozial-konstruktivistischer Theorien (Wissenssoziologie, Kulturelles Gedächtnis und linguistische Diskursanalyse) wird ein Modell der Genese von Sprachbewußtsein entwickelt, das es erlaubt, Denkweisen über Sprache aus mentalitären Dispositionen zu erklären. Die tiefensemantische Analyse von sprachreflexiven, aber auch feuilletonistischen, literarischen und kulturhistorischen Texten und Druckgraphiken des 18. Jahrhunderts zeigt, wie allgemeine Denk- und Bewertungsschemata die Debatte über die Frage »Was ist Hochdeutsch?« präformierten und organisierten. Das Denken über Sprache entfaltete sich demnach in den argumentativen und semantischen Rahmen des kulturkritischen Diskurses. Die Sprachnormendebatte wird so als Streit über die sittliche Verfassung und die nationale Identität Deutschlands lesbar gemacht.
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De Gruyter Sozialpsychologie des Sprachverhaltens: Der deutsch-ungarische Sprachkonflikt in der Habsburgermonarchie
Book SynopsisDie im Buch dokumentierten Untersuchungen haben eine doppelte Zielsetzung: (a) die Erklärung des Sprachverhaltens verschiedener sozialer Gruppierungen in einer historischen Sprachkonfliktsituation, und im Zusammenhang damit (b) die Klärung der Frage, ob die zur Lösung dieses soziolinguistischen Problems angewendete bzw. anhand der Lösung dieses Problems erprobte sozialpsychologische Verhaltenstheorie, die Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens, tatsächlich im Stande ist, Spracherhalt und Sprachwechsel als sprachliche Verhaltensweisen zu erklären und vorherzusagen. Zunächst werden anhand sprachstatistischer Daten zur Muttersprache bzw. zu den Sprachkenntnissen der Sprecher die zu erklärenden sprachlichen Verhaltensweisen beschrieben. Im nächsten Schritt werden die theoretischen und methodologischen Grundlagen der Untersuchung umrissen. So wird der Stellenwert des Untersuchungsgegenstandes (Sprachverhalten im Sprachkonflikt) innerhalb der Sprachgeschichtsschreibung und der Kontaktlinguistik bestimmt sowie die Begrifflichkeit der Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens eingeführt. Auf diese Ausführungen folgen die Untersuchungen zu den Hintergründen der beschriebenen Sprachverhaltensweisen: zum Sprachwechsel der Sprecher des traditionell deutschsprachigen Bürgertums und zum Spracherhalt der deutschsprachigen bäuerlichen Dorfbevölkerung während des deutsch-ungarischen Sprachkonflikts in Ungarn im Zeitalter der Habsburgermonarchie (1867-1918).
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De Gruyter Sheading of Rushen (Kirk Malew with Castletown and Ballasalla), Kirk Arbory and Kirk Christ Rushen with the Calf of Man
Book SynopsisVolume 6 comprises the three southerly parishes of Kirk Malew (including the town and former capital Castletown and the large village of Ballasalla), Kirk Arbory, and Kirk Christ Rushen (including the Calf of Man island). The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation, and a listing of the various elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. In addition, reinterpretation of some of the names now places them in the Early Christian period of Manx history (6th-7th centuries), thus adding them to the small list of names predating the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries). As documentary material from that time to the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of placenames is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the topography and patterns of settlement, and for the development of Manx Gaelic during that period. It also helps to contribute towards comparative placename study in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, southwest Scotland and northwest England.
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De Gruyter Sheading of Middle (Kirk Braddan, Kirk Marown and Kirk Santan)
Book SynopsisVolume 5 comprises the three central and eastern parishes of Kirk Braddan, Kirk Marown, and Kirk Santan. The material appears in alphabetical form with discussion of any problems of interpretation and a listing of the elements making up the names. This volume yields name-forms and elements not found in Manx literature or dictionaries. As all but a handful of names predate the Scandinavian period (9th-13th centuries) and as documentary material from that time till the 16th century is largely absent, the testimony of place-names is important for the distribution of name elements reflecting the geography and showing patterns of settlement, whether Celtic, Scandinavian, etc, and for comparative place-name research in adjacent areas, particularly Ireland, south-western Scotland, and northern England.
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de Gruyter Lernersprache Französisch
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De Gruyter EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies): The Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry
Book SynopsisGegenstand der Beiträge ist der Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry , ein retrospektives Tonarchiv zum modernen europäischen Jiddisch mit ca. 5000 Stunden gesprochener Sprache. Angeregt wurde die Publikation durch die Aufbereitung der Originalsammlung als elektronisch aufbereitetes Archiv unter eydes.de im Internet. 18 Autoren bearbeiten wissenschaftsgeschichtliche, jiddistische, linguistische, ethnographische, historische und informatische Aspekte des Archivs und seines Umfelds. Unter anderem werden quantitative Methoden der 1960er Jahre aufgegriffen und korpuslinguistisch gewendet. Manche Autoren waren selbst an der Entstehung des Archivs in den 1960er Jahren beteiligt, sie analysieren und bewerten jetzt aus 50-jähriger Distanz. Der Band trägt zur Vergegenwärtigung des Jiddischen in Europa bei und damit zur Neuerkundung des mitteleuropäischen Raumes nach der Wende. Die Beiträge, fokussiert auf das Archiv, sind wissenschaftliche Reflexe auf die Vernichtung der europäischen Heimat des Jiddischen. Es wird sichtbar, wie dieser Verlust in Jiddistik, Linguistik und angrenzenden Kulturwissenschaften seinen Niederschlag gefunden hat und wie Wissenschaftler ihre gesellschaftliche Verantwortung in ihrer Fachdisziplin umsetzen.
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Onada Edicions De política i planificació lingüística
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De Gruyter The Languages of a Bilingual Community
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