Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities

Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9789027218636
ISBN-13 : 9027218633
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Download or read book Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities written by Gillian Sankoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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