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    Language and the city (2007)
    Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan
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    ISBN: 0230018785 , 9780230018785
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 230 p) , ill., map , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Language and globalization
    Parallel Title: Print version Language and the City
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Language planning ; Urbanization Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Sociology, Urban ; Language and languages Variation ; City dwellers Language ; Sociolinguistics
    Abstract: This book shows the effects of globalization on language in social context, identifying the city as the key site for the realization of these effects. It challenges assumptions that hold sustainable linguistic diversity to be inherently non-urban while regarding the city as an unproblematic site for understanding the social function of language
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: The Intellectual Inheritance; 2 The City; 3 Sociolinguistics; 4 Language Planning; Part II: Towards a New Conceptual Terrain; 5 Place; 6 Identity; 7 Power; 8 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-224) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Jailtacht : the Irish language, symbolic power and political violence in Northern Ireland 1972-2008 (2012)
    Cardiff : University Of Wales Press
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    ISBN: 1299201334 , 9781299201330 , 9780708324974
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Print version Jailtacht
    DDC: 306.4409417
    Keywords: Irish language Social aspects ; Irish language History ; Irish language -- History ; Irish language -- Social aspects -- Northern Ireland ; Linguistic minorities -- Europe ; Irish language ; History ; Irish language ; Social aspects ; Northern Ireland ; Linguistic minorities ; Europe ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Using research methods and techniques, the author closely analyses the emergence of the Irish language amongst republican prisoners and ex prisoners in Northern Ireland from the 1970's up until the present. This pioneering study shows how the language was used exclusively in parts of the prison, despite the efforts of the prison authorities to suppress the language, and the dramatic impact this had on Irish society. Drawing on interviews with the prisoners, and various other materials, Mac Giolla Chriost shows how these developments gave rise to the popular coinage of the term 'Jailtacht', a
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chronology; Style; Performance; Visual Grammar; Ideology; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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