Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities
Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
Editors
| University of Edinburgh
| University of Toronto
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, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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ix
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1–16
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Photos of Gillian: Then and now
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17
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Biographies of contributors and email addresses
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19–24
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Part I. Language Ideology: From the speakers, what can we learn about the language?
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27–42
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43–67
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69–94
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95–109
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111–134
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Part II. Bridging Macro- and Micro-sociolinguistics
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137–178
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179–194
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195–219
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Part III. Quantitative sociolinguistics: From the languages, what can we learn about the speakers?
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223–247
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249–271
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273–313
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315–326
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327–355
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Index of names
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357–360
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Index of subjects
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361–365
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFDM – Bilingualism & multilingualism
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General