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Author Sankoff, Gillian

Title The Social Life of Language / Gillian Sankoff
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1980

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Language in Social and Historical Space -- Introduction -- 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea -- 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches -- 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence -- 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules -- 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea -- 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries -- 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities -- 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa -- 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model -- II. Studies of Particular Linguistic Variables -- Introduction -- 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language -- 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives -- 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin -- 13. Anything You Can Do -- 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French -- 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French -- Bibliography -- Indexes
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Language and culture.
French language -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
French language
Language and culture
Language and languages
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097692
Subject Papua New Guinea
Québec -- Montréal
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512809589
1512809586