Language and Society : : Anthropological Issues / / ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1979 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (771 p.) |
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Other title: | I-IV -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE Introductory -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO Social Meaning of Language -- A Transactional View of Speech Functions and Codeswitching -- Extralinguistic Variables and Linguistic Description -- Sociolinguistic Aspects of Pronoun Usage in Middle English -- Codeswitching as a "Safe Choice" in Choosing a Lingua Franca -- Other People's Words: An Aspect of Style in Ga Songs -- How Role-Relationships, Domains, and Speech Situations Affect Language Use Among Bilinguals -- Correlational Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Communication -- SECTION THREE Survey Techniques -- Sociological Aspects of Black English Dialects in the United States -- Communication in Culture Spaces -- Sociolinguistic Variation and Semantic Structure: The Case of Tamil kaRi -- Perspectives on Sociolinguistics in India -- A Demographic Typology for Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi Speakers in South Asia -- Social Mobility and Specialization in Language Use -- Modal and Modish Pronunciations: Some Sex Differences in Speech -- The Effects of Marital Status and Age on Sex Differences in Language Style -- Sampling, Elicitation, and Interpretation: Orléans and Elsewhere -- Social Differences in White Speech -- Language Choice and Socialization in a Multilingual Community: Language Use Among Primary School Teachers in Ghana -- Relational Bilingualism: A Socioeducational Approach to Studying Multilingualism Among Mexican-Americans -- SECTION FOUR Language and Cultural Identity -- The Future of the Oppressed Languages in the Andes -- A Comparative Study of Language Contact: The Influence of Demographic Factors in Wales and the Soviet Union -- Linguistic Contacts and Elements of Ethnic Identification -- Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation -- Sociopsychological Bases of Language Choice and Use: The Case of Swahili Vernaculars and English in Kenya -- Cree-English Bilingualism in Northern Alberta -- Bilingualism and Language Maintenance in Two Communities in Santa Catarina, Brazil -- Cherokee: A Flourishing or Obsolescing Language? -- Chicano Bilingual/Bicultural Education -- Helping Africans to Speak for Themselves: The Role of Linguistics -- SECTION FIVE Modernization -- A Typology of Language Education in Nigeria -- Social and Linguistic Structures of Burundi, a Typical "Unimodal" Country -- The Sociolinguistic Structure of the Danube Basin -- Language Unification in Taiwan: Present and Future -- The Persistence of the Ideographic Script in the Far East: Its Competitive Values Versus the Alphabet -- Prestige Speech Styles: The Imposed Norm and Inherent Value Hypotheses -- Attitudes Toward the Adoption of an International Language -- East Europeans and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Alberta -- Universal Literacy of the Formerly Backward Peoples of the Soviet Union: A Factor of Their Social Self Awareness -- Communication in an Indian Village -- Emerging Patterns of Communication Networks in a Developing Society -- Network Concepts in the Sociology of Language -- Problems of Language Standardization in India -- Universals of Language Planning in National Development -- The Dimensionality and Predictability of Responses to Language Planning Activities -- SECTION SIX Discussion -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110806489 9783110636772 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110806489 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack. |