Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
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Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Impact, studies in language and society 24
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Biographies of contributorsand email addressesPart I Language Ideology; Language, mobility and (in)security; Language repertoires and the middle-class in urban Solomon Islands; Land, language and identity; "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it"; Tok Bokis, Tok Piksa; Part II. Bridging Macro- and Micro-sociolinguistics; Chiac in context; How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community; How local is local French in Quebec?; Part III. Quantitative variationism: From the languages, what can we learn about the speakers?; Ne deletion in Picard and in regional French
The dynamics of pronouns in the Québec languages in contact dynamicsSubordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English; Mysteries of the substrate; Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple"; Index of names; Index of subjects; The series IMPACT: Studies in language and society
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world's speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, a
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