Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities

Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities
Author: Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2008-09-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729075X

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 social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

Studia Etymologica Indoeuropaea

Studia Etymologica Indoeuropaea
Author: Lambert Isebaert
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1991
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789068313789

Ce recueil de plus de 30 contributions originales honore la memoire du professeur A.J. Van Windekens, qui fut pendant pres de cinquante ans un des principaux representants des etudes de linguistique comparative. Centree sur le theme de l'etymologie et de l'histoire des mots, cette publication reflete fidelement les orientations actuelles de la recherche historique menee dans des domaines aussi varies que l'armenien, le hittite, le vieil-indien et les langues iraniennes, le tokharien, l'albanais, le grec et le latin, le gotique, les langues celtiques, etc. Le materiel examine se compose avant tout de noms communs et de noms propres, mais egalement de pronoms, de noms de nombre et d'elements proprement grammaticaux. Pour toute ces donnees, la mise en perspective provient du vocabulaire de l'indo-europeen prehistorique, considere en lui-meme ou vu dans ses rapports avec d'autres proto-langues, telles que le semitique commun. Tout au long le livre, une place importante est reservee a la methodologie generale: le statut des reconstructions linguistiques, les lois phonetiques et l'analogie, le contact des langues et l'emprunt lexical. L'ouvrage se clot sur un index vocum exhaustif de plus de vingt pages. Les Studia Etymologica Indoeuropaea s'adressent a tous les specialistes de la linguistique indo-europeenne et generale, en particulier aux orientalistes et aux philologues classiques.

Descriptio Linguistica

Descriptio Linguistica
Author: Hermann Bluhme
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1987
Genre: Discourse analysis
ISBN: 9783878082934

French XX Bibliography

French XX Bibliography
Author: William J. Thompson
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781575911045

Provides a listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This work is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema.

French Applied Linguistics

French Applied Linguistics
Author: Dalila Ayoun
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027219725

Focuses on French applied linguistics

Canadiana

Canadiana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1985
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

The Theory of Neutralization and the Archiphoneme in Functional Phonology

The Theory of Neutralization and the Archiphoneme in Functional Phonology
Author: Tsutomu Akamatsu
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 557
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902727875X

The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme is well known to have been expounded by the Prague School. It is now being fully accepted and practised by A. Martinet and his associates, to whom Akamatsu refers as the neo-Prague School. The objective is to propose a maximally functionalist theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme by submitting to critical discussion from a functional point of view all the principal notions pertaining to this theory in its traditionally professed form. The author comes up with a theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme which is fundamentally based on but is clearly different from that which is normally associated with the Prague School and the neo-Prague School.

French: From Dialect to Standard

French: From Dialect to Standard
Author: R. Anthony Lodge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134894147

Written as a text, this book looks at the external history of French from its Latin origins to the present day through some of the analytical frameworks developed by contemporary sociolinguistics. French is one of the most highly standardized of the world's languages and the author invites us to see the language as heterogenous, rather than a monolithic entity, using the model proposed by E. Haugen as a useful comparative grid to plot the development of standardization. After an introductory section which examines the dialectalization of Latin in Gaul, the four central chapters of the book are constructed around the basic processes invoved in standardization as identified by Haugen: the selection of norms, the elaboration of function, codification and acceptance. The concluding chapter deals with language variability and the wide gulf that has now developed between French used for formal purposes and that used in everyday speech, with particular reference to Occitan speaking regions. Emphasizing the ordinary speakers of the language, rather than the statesmen or great authors as agents of change, the book combines a traditional history of the language' approach with a sociolinguistic framework to provide a broad and comparative overview of the problem of language standardization.

Bibliographie Linguistique de L'Annee 1991 - Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1991

Bibliographie Linguistique de L'Annee 1991 - Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 1991
Author: Mark Janse
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1240
Release: 1994-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780792323877

Bibliographie linguistique/ Linguistic Bibliography is the annual bibliography of linguistics published by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists under the auspices of the International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies of UNESCO. With a tradition of more than forty years, Bibliographie linguistique is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field. It covers all branches of linguistics and related disciplines, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas, including less known and extinct languages. Up-to-date information is guaranteed by the collaboration of more than forty contributing specialists from all over the world. With over 21,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification, Bibliographie linguistique remains an inavaluable source of information for every student of language and linguistics.