Language, Borders and Identity / / Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas.

A wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion of the connections between language, borders and identitiesIdentifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 66 B/W illustrations 14 B/W tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Tables, Figures and Extracts
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Language and Identity on the Scottish/English Border
  • 2 Where North Meets South? Contact, Divergence and the Routinisation of the Fenland Dialect Boundary
  • 3. Borders in North American English
  • 4. Spanish Language Variation and Ethnic Identity in New Mexico: Internal and External Borders
  • 5. Language Use and Attitudes as Stimuli for Phonological Change in Border Uruguayan Spanish
  • 6. Religion on the Border: The Effect of Utah English on English and Spanish Use in the Mexican Mormon Colonies
  • 7. Borders within Borders: Contexts of Language Use and Local Identity Configuration in Southern Galicia
  • 8. Perceptual Ideology across the Scottish/English Border
  • 9. Wales and Welsh: Boundedness and Peripherality
  • 10. The Political Border and Linguistic Identities in Ireland: What Can the Linguistic Landscape Tell Us?
  • 11. Multilingual Luxembourg: Language and Identity at the Romance/Germanic Language Border
  • 12. What Counts as a Linguistic Border, for Whom, and with What Implications? Exploring Occitan and Francoprovençal in Rhône-Alpes, France
  • 13. Constructing National and International Deaf Identity: Perceived Use of American Sign Language
  • 14. Borders, Variation and Identity: Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO)
  • References
  • Index