Overview
- Covers the emerging concept of language mapping
- Includes current research themes on linguistics and geography
- Shows the importance of language to scholars in the humanities and social sciences
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mapping Language Landscapes
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Language, Culture and Politics
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The Functions of Language on a Local and a Global Scale
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Keywords
- typology of evaluating language mapping
- Linguistics and geography
- Classifying and mapping the semitic languages of Ethiopia
- linguistic landscapes of cities
- westernized place names in Beijing
- thematic categories for place names: typology
- historical language
- languages in South Africa
- language politics in Paraguay Chaco
- climate change through the language of art
- Magahi Language in India
- Learning indigenous languages in Buenos Aires
- inclusive and multilingual education
- dialect diversity and migration
- English as business lingua franca
- English and bivariant class indexicality
- the changing language of gender in Amazonia Peru
About this book
This book addresses the changing contemporary language worlds in three major contexts. It first discusses how the language landscape maps of cities are changing as a result of increased migration, globalization and global media. These features are evident in place names and place name changes as well as the densities and frequencies of language spoken and used in texts. The second section discusses how the state itself is responding to both indigenous and heritage groups desiring to be included and represented in the state’s political landscapes and also expressions of art and culture. In the third section, the authors address a number of cutting-edge theses that are emerging in the linguistic geography and political words. These include the importance of gender, anthropogenetic discourse, the preservation of endangered languages and challenges to a state’s official language policy. Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issuesin twelve countries and their overlapping interests in language mapping, language usage and policy and visual representations, this book provides inspiring research into future topics at local, national, regional and international scales.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Roland Kehrein is a scholar of German Linguisticsat Marburg University, Germany, specializing in variation and change of regional languages. He has written and edited several books on this and related topics in the last decade. Among these are two international handbooks: Regionale Variation des Deutschen. Projekte und Perspektiven (2015) and Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Vol. 2: Language Mapping (2010) (two volumes) published in the well-known series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. Since 2016 he is chief editor of the academic journal/book series Germanistische Linguistik. Besides these publications he has written numerous articles in the field and he is continuously presenting his research at relevant international conferences. Finally, he is regularly involved in review processes for conference contributions, articles and research proposals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language, Society and the State in a Changing World
Editors: Stanley D. Brunn, Roland Kehrein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18146-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18145-0Published: 09 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18148-1Published: 09 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18146-7Published: 08 April 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 404
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Linguistics, general, Geography, general, Language Education