Language Empires in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Christel Stolz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Gregory D. S.,; Borgoiakova, Tamara,; Ding, Picus S.,; Gruzdeva, Ekaterina,; Guérin, Françoise,; Janurik, Boglárka,; Kaysina, Inna,; Khilkhanova, Erzhen,; Kuchenbrandt, Imme,; Levkovych, Nataliya,; Lindner, Diana,; Menzel, Thomas,; Riagáin, Dónall Ó,; Salánki, Zsuzsa,; Stolz, Christel,; Tilmatine, Mohand,; Tosco, Mauro,; Versteegh, Kees,; Vidal, Alejandra,; Zabrodskaja, Anastassia,
• HerausgeberIn: Stolz, Christel,
• 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) , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

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...

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