ISBN:
9789027290755
,
902729075X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 365 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Impact, studies in language and society v. 24
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Linguistics
;
Sociology
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
;
Linguistics
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Sociology
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Festschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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