Contrastive Sociolinguistics / / ed. by Marlis Hellinger, Ulrich Ammon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ammon, Ulrich,; Bister-Broosen, Helga,; Coulmas, Florian,; Eichinger, Ludwig Μ.,; Görlach, Manfred,; Günthner, Susanne,; Held, Gudrun,; Hellinger, Marlis,; House, Juliane,; Jacobson, Rodolfo,; Lüdi, Georges,; Marui, Ichiro,; Matoba, Kazuma,; Mühlhäusler, Peter,; Nishijima, Yoshinori,; Noro, Kayoko,; Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L.,; Pauwels, Anne,; Quasthoff, Uta Μ.,; Reinelt, Rudolf,; Romaine, Suzanne,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Vandermeeren, Sonja,; Wierzbicka, Anna,; Willemyns, Roland,; Yamashita, Hitoshi,
• HerausgeberIn: Ammon, Ulrich,; Hellinger, Marlis,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 71
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Contents -- Contrastive Sociolinguistics: An introduction -- Part I Bilingualism – Multilingualism -- On comparing the centers of plurinational languages: The example of German -- Sociolinguistic characters: On comparing linguistic minorities -- Bilingualism-multilingualism: Its characteristics and properties -- In search of the deeper message: Codeswitching rationales of Mexican-Americans and Malaysians -- Multilingualism through migration: A comparison of internal and external migrant communities in Switzerland -- A contrastive analysis of language use and contact in the Alemannic area: Colmar and Freiburg -- Language attitudes on either side of the linguistic frontier: A sociolinguistic survey in the Voeren/Fouron-area and in Old Belgium North -- Part II Language planning and language politics -- Educational language choice – multilingual diversity or monolingual reductionism? -- Ecological and non-ecological approaches to language planning -- The inequality of languages: Economic aspects of language estimation -- Language borders in northern France and in Belgium: A contrastive analysis -- Feminist language planning and titles for women: Some crosslinguistic perspectives -- Pidgins and Creoles as literary languages: Ausbau and Abstand -- The typology of dictionaries of English-based pidgins and Creoles -- Part III Cross-linguistic discourse analysis -- Contrastive sociolinguistics and the theory of “cultural scripts”: Chinese vs English -- Contrastive discourse analysis and misunderstanding: The case of German and English -- Two polite speech acts in contrastive view: Aspects of the realization of requesting and thanking in French and Italian -- Concepts of communicative virtues (CCV) in Japanese and German -- Referential perspective in speech acts: A comparison between German and Japanese -- Male-female speaking practices across cultures -- Narrative universals? Some considerations and perspectives -- Index