| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
"Tings change, all tings change": the changing face of sociolinguistics with a global perspective / Mariam Meyerhoff and James N. Stanford -- The Westernising mechanisms in sociolinguistics / Dick Smakman -- Ala! Kumbe? "Oh my! Is it so?": multilingualism controversies in East Africa / Sandra Nekesa Barasa -- A sociolinguistic mosaic of West Africa: challenges and prospects / Jemima Asabea Anderson and Gladys Nyarko Ansah -- Southeastern Asia: diglossia and politeness in a multilingual context / Aone von Engelenhoven and Maaike van Naerssen -- Towards a distributed sociolinguistics of postcolonial multilingual societies: the case of Southern Africa / Majend Mesthrie -- Speech community and linguistic urbanization: sociolinguistic theories developed in China / Daming Xu -- Language variation and change: the Indian experience / Shobha Satyanath -- Gender in a North African setting: a sociolinguistic overview / Reem Bassiouney -- The Creole-speaking Caribbean: the architecture of language variation / Hubert Devonish -- Class in the social labyrinth of South America / Elisa Battisti and João Ignacio Pires Lucas -- The Slavic area: trajectories, borders, centres and peripheries in the Second World / Marc L. Greenberg -- The study of politeness and women's language in Japan / Patrick Heinrich -- Positive politeness in the European Mediterranean: sociolinguistic notions / Irene Cenni -- Nivkh writing practices: literacy and vitality in an endangered language / Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Bert Botma -- The Jamaican language situation: a process, not a type / Hubert Devonish and Kadian Walters -- Nutemllaq Yugtun Qaneryararput: our very own way of speaking Yugtun in Alaska / Theresa Arevgaq John -- Variation in North Saami / Ante Aikio, Laura Arola and Niina Kunnas -- Gaelic Scotland and Ireland: issues of class and diglossia in an evolving social landscape / Cassie Smith-Christmas -- Tadhg Ó hifeamáin |
| Summary |
Challenging the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories, this volume focuses on lesser known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the European Mediterranean and Slavic regions, as well as specific speech communities such as those speaking Nivkh, Jamaican Creole, North Saami and Central Yup'ik. The contributors look at key sociolinguistic aspects of each region or speech community, such as gender, politeness strategies, speech patterns and the effects of social hierarchy on language, concentrating on any differences from mainstream models. By drawing connections across regions/communities and considering how mainstream sociolinguistics is incomplete or lacking, it reveals how lesser-known cultures can play an important role in the building of theory in sociolinguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Globalization
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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Language and languages -- Variation -- Social aspects
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Second language acquisition.
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
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Globalisierung
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Soziolinguistik
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Sociolinguistics -- Globalization.
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Multilingualism -- Social aspects.
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Globalisation -- Language contact.
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Language and languages -- Variation -- Social aspects.
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Språksociologi.
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Språkundervisning -- sociala aspekter.
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Globalisering -- sociala aspekter.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smakman, Dick, editor
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Heinrich, Patrick, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315697826 |
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1315697823 |
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9781317451006 |
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1317451007 |
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9781317451013 |
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1317451015 |
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9781317450993 |
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131745099X |
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