| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 492 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Africa and the Middle East; The Americas; Asia; Europe; Concluding Thoughts; Index |
| Summary |
Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts, assess their relative successes and failures, and place the cases on a success-failure continuum. The reasons for these failures and successes and the linguistic, social, and political contexts involved are subtle and highly complex. Some of these factors have to do with whether the language is considered a dialect, as in the cases |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
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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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fishman, Joshua A
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García, Ofelia
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| ISBN |
9780199837991 |
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0199837996 |
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