Language Studies category: 15171 books
Language and a Sense of Place
Studies in Language and Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Place has always been central to studies of language, variation and change. Since the eighteenth century, dialectologists have been mapping language features according to boundaries - both physical and institutional. In the twentieth century, variationist sociolinguists developed techniques to correlate...
Social Media and Minority Languages
Convergence and the Creative Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
As a field in its own right, Minority Language Media studies is developing fast. The recent technological and social developments that have accelerated media convergence and opened new ways of access and exchange into spaces formerly controlled by media institutions, offer new opportunities, challenges...
by Basil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns of language use and the primary socialization of the child.
'Bernstein's hypothesis will require [teachers] to look afresh not only at their pupils' language...
Crossing Mountains
Native American Language Education in Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Collaboration among contemporary Native American communities and local public schools is vital for nurturing Native languages. Although public schools cannot bear the entire burden, Native-language education will remain on the margins without their support. Using case studies of school districts on...
The Korean Language
Structure, Use and Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details to a minimum. By examining the Korean language in its geographical, historical, social and cultural context the reader...
Language Life in Japan
Transformations and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the Japanese...
by Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2008
The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. Part 2 explores...
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection...
Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices
Assessing Minority Language Maintenance Across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority language studies. The book presents a number of case studies covering a broad range of highly diverse minorities...
China's Assimilationist Language Policy
The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At present...
by Nanette Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This book is the first full-length study in English to examine the use of discriminatory language in Japan. As in other countries, there has been much debate about the public use of language deemed demeaning to certain groups within society especially in relation to the issue of minority rights versus...
Where is Language?
An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech?
For too long,...
by Jukka K. Korpela
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This is an extensive manual of the Finnish language. It is an ideal source of information when you wish to learn about some specific features of Finnish, such as pronunciation, word formation, notational conventions, or verb forms, even with minimal or no previous understanding of the language. It...