Language Empires in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Christel Stolz.
The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field of linguistics, specifically to research on situations of language spread...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Arabization and linguistic domination: Berber and Arabic in the North of Africa
- Arabic, and a few good words about empires (but not all of them)
- An empire of learning: Arabic as a global language
- Chinese influence on Vietnamese: A Sinospheric tale*
- Cracks in the foundation of a language empire – the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
- Challenges of linguistic diversity in Formosa
- Russian colonialism and hegemony and Native Siberian languages
- Language policies and language loyalties after twenty years in post-Soviet Russia: The case of Khakassia
- Sociolinguistic and linguistic outcomes of Nivkh-Russian language contact
- The evolution of Chechen in asymmetrical contact with Russian
- The emergence of gender agreement in code-switched verbal constructions in Erzya-Russian bilingual discourse
- Grammatical effects of Russian-Udmurt language contact
- The bilingualism of Finno-Ugric language speakers in the Volga Federal district
- Subjective factors of language vitality: Language attitudes of the Buryat ethnic group
- On the linguistic behavior of immigrants from the post-Soviet countries in Germany
- Collective beliefs of the mixed speech speaker in Belarus
- Belarusian vs. Russian, regularity vs. irregularity in adjective and adverb comparison of mixed speech in Belarus
- Post-Soviet Estonian-Russian language contact: Transfer and convergence in Estonian Russian
- Index of Authors
- Index of Languages
- Index of Subjects
- Literature