Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity? : : New and Old Language Diversities /

Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity? : : New and Old Language Diversities / / ed. by Reetta Toivanen, Janne Saarikivi.

Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Edygarova, Svetlana,
Janurik, Boglárka,
Laakso, Johanna,
Lantto, Hanna,
Lehtonen, Heini,
Myshlovska, Oksana,
Partanen, Niko,
Pischlöger, Christian,
Puura, Ulriikka,
Saarikivi, Janne,
Sarivaara, Erika Katjaana,
Toivanen, Reetta,
Tánczos, Outi,
Zamyatin, Konstantin,
HerausgeberIn:
Saarikivi, Janne,
Toivanen, Reetta,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction to New and Old Language Diversities: Language Variation and Endangerment in Changing Minority Communities
  • Part 1: Language Communities or Networks of Communication? Old and New Linguistic Diversity
  • 1. Fragmentation of the Karelian Language and Its Community: Growing Variation at the Threshold of Language Shift
  • 2.What's Up Helsinki?: Linguistic Diversity Among Suburban Adolescents
  • 3. Varieties of Erzya-Russian Code-Switching in Radio Vaygel Broadcasts
  • 4. Udmurt on Social Network Sites: A Comparison with the Welsh Case
  • Part 2: Standardising Languages and Ethnicities: Mission Impossible?
  • 5. A Tale of a City and Its Two Languages: A History of Bilingual Practices in the City of Bilbao
  • 6. Nationalising Fluid and Ambiguous Identities: Russia, Western Ukraine and Their Ukrainian and Russian Minorities, Diasporas and 'Compatriots Abroad'
  • 7. Emergent Sámi Identities: From Assimilation Towards Revitalisation
  • 8. Localising the Global in the Superdiverse Municipalities of the Arctic: The Case of Inari
  • Part 3: Language Revitalisation: Protection Standards or Tolerance for Variation
  • 9. Russia's Minority Education and the European Language Charter
  • 10. Metadiversity, or the Uniqueness of the Lambs
  • 11. Division of Responsibility in Karelian and Veps Language Revitalisation Discourse
  • 12. Standard Language Ideology and Minority Languages: The Case of the Permian Languages
  • Index

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