Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Soviet National Languages
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Soviet National Languages

Author: Isabelle T. Kreindler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 311086438X

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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.

Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries

Author: Aneta Pavlenko

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1847690874

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In the past two decades, post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries.

The Languages of Israel
The Languages of Israel

Author: Bernard Spolsky

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781853594519

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The practice and ideology of the treatment of the languages of Israel are examined in this book. It asks about the extent to which the present linguistic pattern may be attribited to explicit language planning activities.

Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East
Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East

Author: John Myhill

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2006-06-21

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9027293511

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This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at ‘unification’, based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively homogeneous spoken languages, e.g. Czech, Norwegian and Ukrainian, have resulted in national liberation and international stability. It is also shown that religion can be more important to national identity than language, but only for religious groups which were understood in premodern times to be national rather than universal or doctrinal, e.g. Jews, Armenians, Maronites, Serbs, Dutch and English; this is demonstrated with discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the civil war in Lebanon and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the United Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

A History of Ukraine
A History of Ukraine

Author: Paul R. Magocsi

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 929

ISBN-13: 1442610212

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Dotyczy m. in. Kresów wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej.

Language, Education, and Society in a Changing World
Language, Education, and Society in a Changing World

Author: Tina Hickey

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781853593154

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This book addresses many of the issues facing language teachers, researchers and policy makers in a world where languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate and are frequently the focus for dispute and conflict.

Globalising Sociolinguistics
Globalising Sociolinguistics

Author: Dick Smakman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317451007

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This book challenges the predominance of mainstream sociolinguistic theories by focusing on lesser known sociolinguistic systems, from regions of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, South America, the European Mediterranean, and Slavic regions as well as specific speech communities such as those speaking Nivkh, Jamaican Creole, North Saami, and Central Yup’ik. In nineteen chapters, the specialist authors look at key sociolinguistic aspects of each region or speech community, such as gender, politeness strategies, speech patterns and the effects of social hierarchy on language, concentrating on the differences from mainstream models. The volume, introduced by Miriam Meyerhoff, has been written by the leading expert of each specific region or community and includes contributions by Rajend Mesthrie, Marc Greenberg and Daming Xu. This publication draws together connections across regions/communities and considers how mainstream sociolinguistics is incomplete or lacking. It reveals how lesser-known cultures can play an important role in the building of theory in sociolinguistics. Globalising Sociolinguistics is essential reading for any researcher in sociolinguistics and language variation and will be a key reference for advanced sociolinguistics courses.

Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe
Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Christina Bratt Paulston

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781853594168

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This text aims to provide an introductory study of linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe taking into account historical development, present situation, language maintenance and shift as well as language and educational policies of each country included in this study.

The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism
The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Author: Tej K. Bhatia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 978

ISBN-13: 1118941276

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**Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language learning Provides extensively revised coverage of bilingual and multilingual communities, polyglot aphasia, creolization, indigenization, linguistic ecology and endangered languages, multilingualism, and forensic linguistics Brings together a global team of internationally-renowned researchers from different disciplines Covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from neuro- and psycho-linguistic research to studies of media and psychological counseling Assesses the latest issues in worldwide linguistics, including the phenomena and the conceptualization of 'hyperglobalization', and emphasizes geographical centers of global conflict and commerce