Standardizing Minority Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Standardizing Minority Languages write by Pia Lane. This book was released on 2017-09-22. Standardizing Minority Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such processes. The focus is on social actors rather than language as a means for analysing the complexity and tensions inherent in contemporary standardization processes. By considering the perspectives and actions of people who participate in or are affected by minority language politics, the contributors aim to provide a comparative and nuanced analysis of the complexity and tensions inherent in minority language standardisation processes. Echoing Fasold (1984), this involves a shift in focus from a sociolinguistics of language to a sociolinguistics of people. The book addresses tensions that are born of the renewed or continued need to standardize ‘language’ in the early 21st century across the world. It proposes to go beyond the traditional macro/micro dichotomy by foregrounding the role of actors as they position themselves as users of standard forms of language, oral or written, across sociolinguistic scales. Language policy processes can be seen as practices and ideologies in action and this volume therefore investigates how social actors in a wide range of geographical settings embrace, contribute to, resist and also reject (aspects of) minority language standardization.
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages write by Willem Fase. This book was released on 1992. Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.
Endangered Minority Languages and Language Standardization
Endangered Minority Languages and Language Standardization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endangered Minority Languages and Language Standardization write by Mhairi Phillipson. This book was released on 2005. Endangered Minority Languages and Language Standardization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages write by James N. Stanford. This book was released on 2009. Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity
Sustaining Linguistic Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustaining Linguistic Diversity write by Kendall A. King. This book was released on 2008-03-06. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment—how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.
