Status Change of Languages

Published by De Gruyter 1992

Status Change of Languages

Edited by: Ulrich Ammon and Marlis Hellinger

In the series Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851625

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
I. National or Official Languages
Linguistic Legislation and Prestige Shift Roland Willemyns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Role of Pressure Groups in the Change of the Status of French in Québec since 1960 Normand Labrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Changes in the Status and Function of Quechua Utta von Gleich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Status Types and Status Changes in the Arabic Language Dagmar Glass and Wolfgang Reuschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Status Change of Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa Catherine Griefenow-Mewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Socioeconomic Transitions and Language Status Change: The Case of Luxembourg Kathryn A. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Language Status Shift in the United States: A European Perspective Helga Bister-Broosen and Roland Willemyns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Hindi Language Planning: A Case Study of Status Change Hans R. Dua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
In Search of Status: Bahasa Malaysia for National Unification Rodolfo Jacobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
II. Nonstandard or Standardizing Languages
The Status of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Predicament Suzanne Romaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
The Changing Status of Melanesian Pidgin English Peter Mühlhäusler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Function and Status Change of Pidgin and Creole Languages Marlis Hellinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
III. Non-Official or Minority Languages
Three Dilemmas of Organized Efforts to Reverse Language Shift Joshua A. Fishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
The Changing Status of U. S. Spanish: de Facto Second Language? Jacob L. Ornstein-Galicia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
The Status of a Minority Language in India: A Case Study of Maithili S. Boopathy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Status and Function Changes of Dutch as an Immigrant Language in Australia Anne Pauwels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Problems of Status and Status Change of Yiddish Jürgen Biehl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
The Changing Status of English in Switzerland Urs Dürmüller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Evolution et Statut des Variantes Standard et Dialectales de l’Allemand en Alsace Frédéric Hartweg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
IV. Varieties of German
The Status of German as a Language of Science and the Importance of the English Language for German-Speaking Scientists Sabine Skudlik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Recent Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Chemistry Stefan Michels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
On the Status and Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Diplomacy Ulrich Ammon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Phases of Language Maintenance and Shift: On the Status of Michigan Franconian Renate Born Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Status Change: The Case of the Old Order Amish and Related Groups Joachim Raith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
V. Special Topics
Assessing Language Status: Some Problems Jean Aitchison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Der Weg von einem Sprachprojekt zu einer lebenden Welthilfssprache. Einige Aspekte des Statuswandels, dargestellt am Beispiel des Esperanto Alicja Sakaguchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496
Deference, Politeness and the Status of Language – A Study in the Variability and Changeability of a Crucial Relationship Harald Haarmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
Sachregister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	549

Languages: English, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2013
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 547
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Tables: 39
- Other: 2 Ktn.
Keywords: Amtssprache; Minderheitensprache; Sprachpolitik; Soziolinguistik; Sondersprache

eBook

Published: March 12, 2013
ISBN: 9783110851625

Hardcover

Published: December 1, 1991
ISBN: 9783110126686