Author: Anne Pauwels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-18
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1107043697
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Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139500937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Author: Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-16
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1135710015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.
Author: Calvin Veltman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 3110824000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author: Robert Clifford Williamson
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9789027930682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Achim Kopp
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781575910062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The phonological differences found in the informants' varieties of English are reflected in the differences in the areas of language use and language attitude. In the final chapter, findings gained from the study of the latter two areas are used to suggest an explanation of the "Pennsylvania German paradox." An attempt is made to integrate the phonological findings into a larger theory of language change and to make predictions about future linguistic developments."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Alejandra Balestra
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 2008-11-30
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1611922682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this fascinating exploration of the development of the Spanish language from a sociohistorical perspective in the territory that has become the United States, linguists and editors Balestra, Martcop. {Uhorn}nez, and Moyna draw attention to the long tradition of multilingualism in the United States in the hope of putting to rest the myth that the U.S. was ever a monolingual nation.
Author: Isabel Velázquez
Publisher: Bilingual Education & Bilingua
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781788922272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines minority language maintenance and loss in Spanish-speaking families in communities in the US with a low ethnolinguistic vitality for Spanish. It offers an account of the gendered nature of linguistic transmission and compares the self-perceptions, motivations and attitudes of members of two generations in the same household.
Author: Ulrich Ammon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 3110851628
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