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The Verticalization Model of Language Shift

The Great Change in American Communities

Herausgeber: Brown, Joshua R

Beschreibung

This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. It includes specific case studies of individual communities as well as commentary chapters that provide a broader perspective.

Autor

Joshua R. Brown is Professor of German and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is primarily interested in heritage languages, language maintenance and shift, multilingualism, and historical sociolinguistics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Language Contact , Critical Multilingualism Studies, and American Speech, among others. He is the co-editor of Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (with Simon J. Bronner; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and editor of a special issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics focusing on heritage languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198864639
• ISBN-10: 0198864639
• Artikelnr.: 66144137