Anne Pauwels

Language Maintenance and Shift

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781107618923
• ISBN-10: 1107618924
• Artikelnr.: 45156482

Autorenporträt

Anne Pauwels is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. History, Concepts, Contexts and Approaches: 1.
Pioneers in the study of language maintenance and language shift; 2.
Concepts, contexts and approaches to the study of language maintenance and
shift; Part II. Investigating Language Maintenance and Shift: Collecting
and Analysing Data: 3. Linguistic demography: census surveys; 4. Reporting
language use and exploring language attitudes: questionnaires; 5. Beyond
surveys: interviews, participant observation and experiments; Part III.
Identifying and Understanding Trends and Patterns in the Dynamics of
Language Maintenance and Shift: 6. Trends and patterns in language
maintenance and shift; 7. Understanding the dynamics of language
maintenance and shift; Part IV. Language Maintenance Efforts and Reversing
Language Shift: 8. Efforts, agencies and institutions for language
maintenance; 9. Reversing language shift; Part V. Future Developments in
the Study of Language Maintenance and Shift: 10. Opportunities and
challenges for the future study of language maintenance and shift.