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

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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, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 71
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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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