ISBN:
9781316485750
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (404 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
Parallel Title:
Print version Ludwig, Ralph Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
DDC:
306.44
Abstract:
This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introduction and Theoretical Frame -- 1 Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact: Conceptual Evolution, Interrelatedness, and Parameters -- 1.1 Linguistic Ecology: an Outline -- 1.1.1 From οίκος to Ecology -- 1.1.2 Streams of Development -- 1.2 Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact: a Theoretical Consolidation -- 1.2.1 Linguistic Ecology as a Multidimensional System of Foundations -- 1.2.2 Dynamic and Open Systems -- 1.2.3 From Linguistic Interaction to Historically Constituted Macro-ecology: a Hierarchical Model -- 1.3 Concluding Step: a Larger Picture -- Speaker (Ego): -- Time (Nunc): -- Space (Hic): -- Language (Per): -- 1.4 The Present Volume -- 2 On the Notion of Natural in Ecological Linguistics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 'Natural' Data -- 2.2.1 Everyday Life and Relevant Data -- 2.2.2 Whose Ways of Speaking? -- 2.2.3 Which Ways of Speaking? -- 2.2.4 Speakers and Space -- 2.2.5 A First Conclusion -- 2.3 Natural Trends and Features in and across Languages -- 2.3.1 Language Change -- 2.3.2 Contact-Induced Language Change -- 2.3.3 Vernacular Universals -- 2.3.4 Some Words on the Role of Orality -- 2.3.5 Markedness, Naturalness Theory, and Optimality Theory -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Part II On the Ecology of Speaker and Space: from Situational to Intermediate Ecology -- 3 An Interactionist Perspective on the Ecology of Linguistic Practices: the Situated and Embodied Production of Talk -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 The Ecology of the Interaction: from Goffman's 'Ecological Huddle' to Contemporary Studies -- 3.1.2 Ecological Data as Records of Naturally Occurring Activities -- 3.2 Taking into Account the Ecology of the Activity: the Situated and Embodied Production of Proposals during a Meeting
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(1) (fermé la nuit) -- 3.3 Exploring the Various Steps of the Ecologically Embedded Production of an Utterance -- 3.3.1 Selecting the Proposer -- (2) (fermé la nuit -- MED1 34.45, PUB1 40.57, T1_2.02, T2_40.34) -- (3) (voies d'accès vertes - med1_38.34 -- pub1_44.45) -- (4) (parking - med1_1.05.02) -- (5) -- (6) -- (7) -- 3.3.2 Formulating the Proposal -- (8) -- (9) -- (10) -- (11) -- (12) -- (13) (bancs -- beginning of the meeting, 26.15) -- (14) (continuation of 10) -- 3.3.3 Repeating and Reformulating the Proposal -- (15) (fermé la nuit) -- (16) (voies d'accès vertes) -- (17) (valorisation du patrimoine, med1_40.02=pub146.17=T17.36) -- (18) (modes de déplacement divers) -- 3.3.4 Monitoring Reception: Looking for Consensus and Spotting Disagreement -- (19) (fermé la nuit) -- (20) (ouverture aux écoles) -- (21) (bancs) -- (22) (valorisation du patrimoine) (continuation of exc. 17) -- 3.4 Conclusion: the Embodied Production, Elaboration, and Reception of a Proposal -- Transcript Conventions -- 4 Approaching Language in Urban Interactions Ecologically: the Case of Spanish in Lima -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Language and Urbanity Properties -- 4.2.1 Mixing, Variation, and Stability -- 4.2.2 Density, Diversity, and Mobility -- 4.3 Producing Urban Insertion -- 4.3.1 Rural Background and Urban Experience -- 4.3.2 Language Use and Linguistic Features -- 4.3.3 A Mixed Urban Language -- 4.4 Building a 'Good' Place -- 4.4.1 Escaping from Density -- 4.4.2 Ways of Speaking Castilian -- 4.5 Seeking a Safe Place -- 4.5.1 The Great Urban Divide -- 4.5.2 Preserving the Spanish of Old Lima -- 4.6 Overview -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Part III On the Ecology of Space and Time: Traditions in the Formation of Macro-ecologies -- 5 The Historical Formation of a Macro-ecology: the Case of the Levant -- 5.1 Introduction
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5.2 The Implications of Transplantation: Old French in its Levantine Environment -- 5.2.1 Old French in Syria-Palestine -- 5.2.2 Old French in the Hellenic World -- 5.2.3 A Comparative Approach: Old French in Arabic, Greek and Armenian Settings -- 5.3 Fourteenth- to Fifteenth-century Cyprus: a Linguistic Melting Pot? -- 5.4 French in its Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Setting -- 5.4.1 The Ottoman Period -- 5.4.2 Post-Ottoman Contexts -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Spanish Anthroponomy from an Ecological Linguistic Perspective: the Antillean Society in the Early Sixteenth Century -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 An Ecological Linguistic View on Proper Names -- 6.2.1 The Theory of Proper Names -- 6.2.2 The Ecological Linguistic Paradigm and the Study of Proper Names -- 6.3 The Spanish Naming System in the Sixteenth Century -- 6.4 The Indigenous Naming System in the Antilles -- 6.5 Studying Spanish Anthroponymy in Sixteenth-century Antilles -- 6.5.1 The Encomienda System -- 6.5.2 The Cédulas de Repartimiento -- 6.5.3 The Database -- 6.6 Naming Practices in the Encomienda System -- 6.6.1 Number and Origin of the Name Components -- 6.6.2 First Name Component -- 6.6.2.1 Name Types -- 6.6.2.2 Diminutive Forms -- 6.6.2.3 By-names and Nicknames -- 6.6.2.4 Additional Elements -- 6.6.3 Second and Third Name Component -- 6.7 Conclusion: Anthroponyms from an Ecolinguistic View -- Part IV On the Ecology of Language and Speaker: the Hybridization of Language and Discourse -- 7 Reflections on Discourse Ecology and Language Contact: the Crucial Role of Some Scalar Terms -- 7.1 Introduction: Ecological Frames, Contact Phenomena, and Discourse Analysis -- 7.2 Descriptive Concepts in Contact Linguistics: Some Theoretical Reflections and Terminological Proposals -- 7.2.1 Some Terminological Issues -- 7.2.2 The Concepts of Code-copying and Alternation -- 7.3 A Scalar Approach
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7.3.1 Scalar Approaches in Linguistics -- 7.3.2 Code Hybridization Continuum (CHC) -- 7.3.2.1 Genetic and/or Typological Distance -- 7.3.3 Conventionalized Systemic Integration Continuum (CSIC) -- 7.3.4 Structural Systemic Integration Continuum (SSIC) -- 7.4 Example 1: Communication in Mauritius -- 7.4.1 The Ecological Frame: Mauritius as Macro Area -- 7.4.2 The Transcription: Communication in an Educational Context -- 7.4.2.1 Comments on the Situation -- 7.4.2.2 Text: Teachers in St Bartholomew's College -- 7.4.3 Analysis -- 7.4.3.1 The Code Hybridization Continuum (CHC) -- Balanced Systemic Alternation -- Interlectal/Inter-lingual Copying -- 7.4.3.2 Metalinguistic Reflections Made by the Speakers: Conventionalized, Structurally Integrated Copies in Mauritian Bhojpuri (CSIC and SSIC) -- 7.4.3.3 Code Hybridization between Creole and French -- 7.5 Example 2: Communication in India - the Terminology of Copies -- 7.5.1 The Ecological Frame: the Historical Constitution of the Hindi Macro Area in India -- 7.5.2 The Intermediate Level: New Delhi - Jawaharlal Nehru University -- 7.5.3 The Transcription -- 7.5.3.1 Problems and Conventions of Transcription -- 7.5.3.2 Comments on the Situation -- 7.5.3.3 Transcription: 'Before Class Begins' -- 7.5.4 Analysis -- 7.5.4.1 Global Discourse Functions of Language Selection and Hybridization - the CHC -- 7.5.4.2 Conventionalized System Integrated Copies (CSIC) and Structurally System Integrated Copies (SSIC) in Indian English -- (10) They can understand easily ki from where you are coming. To . . . -- (11) She's going in Himalay . . . She's going to Himalaya -- (12) you are foreigner, just go and enjoy, go for outing, we'll be going on trek -- (13) we go, we walk, we trek -- (14) and only two thousand rupees -- (15) calo, calo, jaldi -- 7.5.4.3 Code Hybridization between English and Hindi -- 7.6 Conclusion
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8 Language Mixing and Ecology in Africa: Focus on Camfranglais and Sheng -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Types of Contact Situations and Contact Languages -- 8.3 Mixed Languages in Africa -- 8.3.1 Camfranglais -- 8.3.1.1 The Ecological Frame -- 8.3.1.2 Structural Aspects -- 8.3.1.3 Ecological Functions -- 8.3.2 Sheng -- 8.3.2.1 The Ecological Frame -- 8.3.2.2 Structural Aspects of Sheng -- 8.3.2.3 Ecological Functions -- 8.4 Mixed Languages vs. Language Mixing and Linguistic Ecology -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 Hybrid Speech of Francophone Groups in Cairo: from Macro-level Ecology to Discourse -- 9.1 Introduction: Linguistic Ecology as a Historically Founded Hierarchy of Parts of a Whole - from Macro-ecology to Discourse Ecology -- 9.2 The Levant Considered as a Macro-ecology: a Brief Overview -- 9.3 Francophone Groups in Cairo Today as an Intermediate Ecology -- 9.3.1 Demography and Social Framework -- 9.3.2 Speaker Attitudes and Strategies of Interaction: General Features and Hypotheses -- 9.4 Discourse Ecology -- 9.4.1 Discourse as Place of Production and Reproduction of Communicative and Social Positioning -- 9.4.2 French as an Unbroken Levantine Tradition -- Transcription -- Analysis -- 9.4.3 Intermediate Ecology Between Tradition and Accommodation: the Role of Alternation and Hybridization -- Transcript -- Analysis -- 9.4.4 Forms of Alternation: Hybridization as Innovation within the Intermediate Ecology -- Transcription -- Analysis -- 9.5 Conclusions -- 10 The Opposite of an Anti-creole? Why Modern Chamorro is Not a New Language -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Question, Aim, Procedure, and Method -- 10.3 What is a 'New Language'? -- 10.4 The Spanish Element in Modern Chamorro -- 10.5 Assessing Modern Chamorro -- 10.6 Final Remarks -- Part V The Multiplicity of Ecological Parameters: Echoing the Theoretical Frame and Going Beyond
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11 Contact between Typologically Different Languages
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