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Author Stolz, Christel

Title Language Empires in Comparative Perspective
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (404 pages)
Series Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) ; v. 6
Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL)
Contents Preface; Arabization and linguistic domination: Berber and Arabic in the North of Africa; Arabic, and a few good words about empires (but not all of them); An empire of learning: Arabic as a global language; Chinese influence on Vietnamese: A Sinospheric tale; Cracks in the foundation of a language empire -- the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland; Challenges of linguistic diversity in Formosa; Russian colonialism and hegemony and Native Siberian languages
Language policies and language loyalties after twenty years in post-Soviet Russia: The case of KhakassiaSociolinguistic and linguistic outcomes of Nivkh-Russian language contact; The evolution of Chechen in asymmetrical contact with Russian; The emergence of gender agreement in code-switched verbal constructions in Erzya-Russian bilingual discourse; Grammatical effects of Russian-Udmurt language contact; The bilingualism of Finno-Ugric language speakers in the Volga Federal district; Subjective factors of language vitality: Language attitudes of the Buryat ethnic group
On the linguistic behavior of immigrants from the post-Soviet countries in GermanyCollective beliefs of the mixed speech speaker in Belarus; Belarusian vs. Russian, regularity vs. irregularity in adjective and adverb comparison of mixed speech in Belarus; Post-Soviet Estonian-Russian language contact: Transfer and convergence in Estonian Russian; Index of Authors; Index of Languages; Index of Subjects; Literature
Summary <!Doctype html public ""-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en""> <html><head> <meta content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"" http-equiv=content-type> <meta name=generator content=""mshtml 8.00.6001.23580""></head> <body> The articles gathered in Language Empires in Comparative Perspective address language spread and subsequent marginalization of minority languages, language endangerment and revitalization, contact-induced language change, and identity issues, with an emphasis on the dominance of non-Western languages, namely Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. </body></html>
Analysis Cultural Imperialism
Language Policy
Minority Language
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Language spread.
Linguistic minorities.
Oriental languages -- Social aspects
Europe, Eastern languages -- Social aspects
Comparative linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Comparative linguistics
Language spread
Linguistic minorities
Sociolinguistics
Middle East -- Languages -- Social aspects
Middle East
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015022757
ISBN 9783110408362
3110408368
3110408473
311040818X
9783110408188
9783110408478