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Title Status and function of languages and language varieties / edited by Ulrich Ammon
Published Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 665 pages, 1 unnumbered pages leaf) : illustrations
Series Grundlagen der Kommunikation = Foundations of communication
Foundations of communication.
Contents Table of Contents -- Foreword -- I. General Description and Typological Schemes -- Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies -- Towards a Descriptive Framework for the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language within a Country -- Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions -- Functional Types of Language in India -- Functional Aspects of Language Varieties � A Theoretical-Methodological Approach -- II. Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties
A Normtheoretic Approach to Functional and Status Types of LanguageFunction and Status of Written Language in East Asia -- Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch -- Über den Begriff Dachsprache -- Quelque remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss -- Regressed or “Downgraded� Varieties of Language: A First Approximation -- Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms -- III. Official, National and International Languages -- Pluricentricity: National Variety
Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis“Official Language�: the Case of Lingala -- Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages -- IV. Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights -- Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology -- “Mother Tongue�: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept -- Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society -- V. Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties -- 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants
The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional ConceptOn the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires (An Italo-Romance View) -- On Language Mixtures -- Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity -- Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity -- The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect or Cant? -- Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language�: Dialect, Register and/or Code? -- Index of Subjects
Notes Developed from a session of the Eleventh World Congress of Sociology of the International Sociological Association in New Delhi, 18-23 Aug. 1986
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Language and languages -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Language and languages
Linguistik
Soziale Funktion
Soziolinguistik
Sprache
Standaardtaal.
Dialecten.
Taalstatus.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Kongress.
Form Electronic book
Author Ammon, Ulrich
International Sociological Association.
World Congress of Sociology (11th : 1986 : New Delhi, India)
ISBN 9783110860252
3110860252