Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties / / ed. by Ulrich Ammon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ALLADINA, SAFDER,; AMMON, ULRICH,; AUBURGER, LEOPOLD,; BARTSCH, RENATE,; BERRUTO, GAETANO,; BRANN, CONRAD M. B.,; Bister, Helga,; CADIOT, PIERRE,; CLYNE, MICHAEL,; COULMAS, FLORIAN,; DUA, HANS R.,; FASOLD, RALPH W.,; GOEBL, HANS,; HAARMANN, HARALD,; HONEY, JOHN,; JOSEPH, JOHN E.,; KHUBCHANDANI, LACHMAN M.,; LAYCOCK, DONALD C.,; MACKEY, WILLIAM F.,; MULJAČIĆ, ŽARKO,; McGREGOR, WILLIAM,; ORNSTEIN-GALICIA, JACOB. L.,; PHILLIPSON, ROBERT,; PRESTON, DENNIS R.,; SAKAGUCHI, ALICJA,; SAMARIN, WILLIAM J .,; SECOMBE, MARGARET J .,; SKUTNABB-KANGAS, TOVE,; SMOLICZ, JERZY J .,; Willemyns, Roland,
• HerausgeberIn: Ammon, Ulrich,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (665 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Foreword --; Chapter I: General Description and Typological Schemes --; Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies --; Towards a Descriptive Framework For the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language Within a Country --; Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions --; Functional Types of Language in India --; Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach --; Chapter II: Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties --; A Normtheoretical Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language --; Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia --; Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch --; Über den Begriff Dachsprache --; Quelques remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss --; Regressed or “Downgraded Varieties” of Language: A First Approximation --; Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms --; Chapter III: Official, National and International Languages --; Pluricentricity: National Variety --; Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis --; ‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala --; Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages --; Chapter IV: Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights --; Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology --; ‘Mother Tongue’: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept --; Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society --; Chapter V: Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties --; 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants --; The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept --; On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires --; On Language Mixtures --; Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity --; Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity --; The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant? --; Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language”: Dialect, Register, and/or Code? --; Subject Index --; 670
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110860252; 9783110636925
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110860252
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ulrich Ammon.