Language and Society : : Anthropological Issues / / ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.

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• MitwirkendeR: ABU-LABAN, BAHA,; AFENDRAS, EVANGELOS A.,; ALBÓ, XAVIER,; ARMSTRONG, ROBERT G.,; BOURHIS, RICHARD,; BRANN, C. Μ. B.,; CHENG, ROBERT L.,; CROCKETT, HARRY J.,; DAKUBU, Μ. E. KROPP,; DARNELL, REGNA,; DAVIES, ANN,; DIL, ANWAR S.,; DÉCSY, GYULA,; FERGUSON, CHARLES A.,; FISHMAN, JOSHUA A.,; GILES, HOWARD,; GUBOGLO, M.,; HEYE, JÜRGEN,; HIDALGO, ARACELI,; JOLLY, GRACE,; KHUBCHANDANI, LACHMAN M.,; KRISHNAMURTI, BH.,; KUMANËV, V. A.,; LAKSHMANNA, C.,; LEVINE, LEWIS,; LEWIS, E. GLYN,; LINDENFELD, JACQUELINE,; MARAINI, FOSCO,; MUTHIANI, JOSEPH,; McCORMACK, WILLIAM C.,; McDAVID, RAVEN I.,; ORNSTEIN, JACOB,; PANDIT, P. B.,; PASCASIO, ΕMY M.,; PRIDE, J. B.,; PULTE, WILLIAM,; ROSS, JOHN,; SAMPSON, GLORIA PAULIK,; SCOTTON, CAROL MYERS,; SILVERMAN, ELLEN-MARIE,; SILVERMAN, FRANKLIN H.,; SMITH, R. B.,; SOUTHWORTH, FRANKLIN C.,; TRUEBA, HENRY TORRES,; URE, JEAN,; VANEK, ANTHONY L.,; VERDOODT, A.,; WARSHAY, DIANA WORTMAN,; WURM, S. A.,; YADAVA, J. S.,; YAMAMOTO, AKIRA,; ΑΡΤΕ, MAHADEV L.,
• HerausgeberIn: McCormack, William C.,; Wurm, Stephen A.,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (771 p.)

Table of Contents

• 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