Ideologies in Action : : Language Politics on Corsica / / Alexandra Jaffe.

In Corsica, spelling contests, road signs, bilingual education bills and Corsican language newscasts leave language planners and ordinary speakers deeply divided over how to define what "counts" as Corsican and how it is connected with cultural identity. In Ideologies in Action Alexandra J...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©1999
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (323 p.) :; 1 Kte
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Social space and place: models of identity
  • Chapter 3. Language shift and diglossia: ideology, history and contemporary practice
  • Chapter 4. Language Activism Part I
  • Chapter 5. Language Activism Part 2
  • Chapter 6. Language learning: its social evaluation and meaning
  • Chapter 7. Cracks in the public performance of Corsican literacy: the Second Annual Corsican Spelling Contest
  • Chapter 8. Moving language off center stage: media and performance
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Name index
  • Subject index
  • Backmatter