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Spaces of multilingualism
This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and…
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- 9781003125839
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- xxii + 239 p
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- 306.446 MUL m
Multilingualism across the lifespan
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dy…
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- 9781003125815
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- xx + 251 p
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- 306.446 MUL m
Words in space and time : a historical atlas of language politics in modern C…
With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on …
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- 9789633864180
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- xvii, 289 p. : ill.
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- 306.44943 KAM w
Responsibility and language practices in place
his volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility for the ways they speak or write in relation to a place—whether it is one they have long resided in, recently moved to, or left a long time ago.;The contributors to the…
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- 9789518582109
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- 225 p.
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- Studia Fennica Anthropologica, 4
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- 306.44 RES r
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions: Exploring Esperanto speakers…
Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundati…
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- 9783732992379
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- 373p.: ill.
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- 414 MAR u
Registers of communication
In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this volume investigate a series of locale-specific models of communicative conduct, or registers of communication, through which persons organize their …
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- 9789522227980
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- 344 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studia Fennica Linguistica, 18
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- 306.44 REG r
The linguistic worldview : ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture
the book is concerned with the linguistic worldview broadly understood, but it focuses on one particular variant of the idea, its sources, extensions, its critical assessment, and inspirations for related research. This approach is the ethnolinguistic linguistic worldview (LWV) program pursued in Lublin, Poland, and initiated and headed by Jerzy Bartminski. In its basic design, the volume emerg…
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- 9788376560748
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- 492 p.
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- 306.44 GLA l
Diversification of Mexican Spanish : a tridimensional study in new world soci…
This book offers a diversification model of transplanted languages that facilitates the exploration of external factors and internal changes. The general context is the New World and the variety that unfolded in the Central Highlands and the Gulf of Mexico, herein identified as Mexican Colonial Spanish (MCS). Linguistic corpora provide the evidence of (re)transmission, diffusion, metalinguistic…
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- 9781501504532
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- XIV, 424 p.
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- Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 111
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- 467.972 HID d
The Adaptive value of languages: non-linguistic causes of language diversity
The goal of this eBook is to shed light on the non-linguistic causes of language diversity, and in particular, to explore the possibility that some aspects of the structure of languages may result from an adaptation to the natural and/or human-made environment. Traditionally, language diversity has been claimed to result from random, internally-motivated changes in language structure. However, …
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- 9782889456314
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- 179 p.; 23 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 306.44 BEN a
The Politics of written language in the Arab world
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabic vernacular. Readership: Readers interested in the Arabic language situation, language ideology, diglossia, and emerging writing practices
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- 9789004346178
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- 330 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; Volume: 90
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- 306.449 POL p
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