Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities : celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff /
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 s...
| Други автори: | Sankoff, Gillian., Meyerhoff, Miriam., Nagy, Naomi. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Impact, studies in language and society ;
24. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=243187 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. |
| Резюме: |
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, a. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 365 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789027290755 902729075X |