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Language, Borders and Identity
Author: Dominic Watt
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-10-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748669787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Identifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.
Irish English, volume 1 - Northern Ireland
Author: Karen P. Corrigan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-01-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0748634304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of English as it is spoken in the Northern dialect regions of Ireland.
Language Change in Central Asia
Author: Elise S. Ahn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1501500430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions of socio-cultural capital in Central Asia.
The Oxford Handbook of Irish English
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-05
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0198856156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as current issues of contact and bilingualism. Chapters in Part II and Part III investigate the structures and use of Irish English today, from pronunciation and grammar to discourse-pragmatic markers and politeness strategies, alongside studies of specific varieties such as Urban English in Northern Ireland and the Irish English spoken in Dublin, Galway, and Cork. Part IV focuses on the Irish diaspora, with chapters covering topics including Newfoundland Irish English and Irish influence on Australian English, while the final part looks at the wider context, such as the language of Irish Travellers and Irish Sign Language. The handbook also features a detailed glossary of key terms, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers interested in varieties of English, Irish studies, sociolinguistics, and social and cultural history.
Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora
Author: J. Beal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-06-27
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0230223931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A range of electronic corpora is increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improved standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book looks at developing similar standards for enriching and preserving unconventional data: dialects, child language and bilingual databases.
Linguistic Communities and Migratory Processes
Author: Karen P. Corrigan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 3110614197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This inter-disciplinary book is the first in an Irish context to address issues connected with the ‘super-diversifying’ of language and society engendered by recent and historical migrations. It analyses novel data from interviews with allochthonous and autochthonous groups of monolingual and plurilingual youngsters living in Northern Ireland. A key aim is to test models within second language acquisition and language variation and change research. Another goal is to examine the extent to which distinctive migratory trends generated changes in the language ecologies of communities on the island of Ireland as well as globally in regions where the Irish settled intensively from the 1700s. The book also compares contemporary migratory experiences with historical records to further our understanding of the dynamics of identification through language across time. The first-ever book devoted to all aspects of the sociolinguistics of globalization and migration in Northern Ireland will be welcomed by scholars interested in the consequences for ethnolinguistic vitality of large-scale population movements. It could not be more timely given the fact that 2.5 million sought asylum in Europe alone during 2016, greatly enhancing its diversity.
The Celtic Languages in Contact
Author: Hildegard L. C. Tristram
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 3940793078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Grammatical Variation and Change in Jersey English
Author: Anna Rosen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 902727052X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on a specially compiled corpus of spoken material containing both present-day sociolinguistic and archive data, it thereby reveals an intricate network of variation and change in this language-shift variety. The study adopts a cross-varietal approach for its analyses, which enables a first more systematic comparison between the Englishes spoken on Jersey, on its sister island Guernsey and beyond. In addition, it discusses the implications of identity aspects for language use in Jersey. The book will therefore be of major interest to any researcher or student working in the areas of language variation and change, language contact or dialectology and to those interested in sociolinguistic methodology and the relationships between language and identity.
Language and a Sense of Place
Author: Chris Montgomery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1108184065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 language use with speakers' orientations to place. More recently, perceptual dialectologists are examining the cognitive and ideological processes involved in language-place correlations and working on ways to understand how speakers mentally process space. Bringing together research from across the field of language variation, this volume explores the extent of twenty-first century approaches to place. It features work from both established and influential scholars, and up and coming researchers, and brings language variation research up to date. The volume focuses on four key areas of research: processes of language variation and change across time and space; methods and datasets for regional analysis; perceptions of the local in language research; and ideological representations of place.
