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1 online resource (481 pages) |
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Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Discipline & Topic Perspectives; 2 Economics; 3 Linguistic and Ethnographic Fieldwork; 4 Education of Minorities; 5 History; 6 Nationalism; 7 Political Science; 8 Psychology; 9 Sign Language and the Deaf Community; 10 Social Psychology; 11 Sociolinguistics; 12 Sociology; 13 Second-Language Learning; Part II: Region & Language Perspectives; AMERICAS; 14 Amerindians; 15 African American Vernacular English; 16 Latin America; 17 The United States and Canada; EUROPE; 18 The Celtic World; 19 Germany; 20 Scandinavia; 21 The Slavic World |
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22 Western EuropeAFRICA; 23 Sub-Saharan Africa; 24 Afro-Asian Rural Border Areas; 25 The Arab World (Maghreb and Near East); ASIA & THE PACIFIC; 26 The Far East; 27 The Pacific; 28 South and Southeast Asia; 29 Concluding Comments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Summary |
This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the ""ethnic revival"" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of ouridentity. The distinguished sociolinguist Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. The volume is divided into two sections, the first examining disciplinary perspectives on the subject; the second uses the prism of geography, looking at thesubject |
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Print version record |
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Language and culture -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Ethnicity -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Areal linguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Anthropological linguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Anthropological linguistics
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Areal linguistics
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Ethnicity
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Language and culture
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Handbooks and manuals
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199761395 |
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0199761396 |
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