Language, Borders and Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Watt, Dominic; Llamas, Carmen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book sets out to encompass a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, and to illustrate a representative range of methodological approaches used by researchers in the field. Political borders that divide monoglossic and heteroglossic territories are examined, as are regional and local borders. Symbolic borders, which may for example be encoded in the semiotic manipulation of the linguistic landscape, are also considered. We assess the linguistic implications of the presence of borders of the preceding kinds in applied contexts such as language planning and policy (e.g. for multilingual education; protection of minority languages) and border control (via the chapter on language analysis for the determination of origin, 'LADO'). Each border is unique to itself, making generalisations about how language functions in 'borderlands' difficult to formulate. Casting the net as wide as we intend will, however, equip us to develop and refine models of how language is used to construct borders, and to indicate on which side of a border speakers situate themselves. The dual reactive and proactive functions that language serves in this respect are brought into focus, and the interface and tensions between essentialist and constructionist approaches to identity are explored. The book will place particular emphasis on the last of these topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748669806
• Artikelnr.: 44755068

Autorenporträt

Dominic Watt lectures in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK Carmen Llamas lectures in sociolinguistics at the University of York. She is co-editor (with Dominic Watt) of Language and Identities (2010) and (with Peter Stockwell and Louise Mullany) of The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (2007). Her research deals primarily with phonological variation and change in the North East and the Scottish-English border region.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas; 1. Language and Identity on the Scottish/English border
Dominic Watt
Carmen Llamas
Gerry Docherty
Damien Hall and Jennifer Nycz; 2. Where North meets South?: Contact
divergence
and the routinisation of the Fenland dialect boundary
David Britain; 3. Borders in North American English
Charles Boberg; 4. Spanish language variation and ethnic identity in New Mexico: internal and external borders
Neddy A. Vigil and Garland D. Bills; 5. Language use and attitudes as stimuli for phonological change in border Uruguayan Spanish
Mark Waltermire; 6. Religion on the border: The effect of Utah English on English and Spanish use in the Mexican Mormon colonies
Wendy Baker-Smemoe and Breana Jones; 7. Borders within borders: Contexts of language use and local identity configuration in southern Galicia
Jaine Beswick; 8. Perceptual ideology across the Scottish/English border
Chris Montgomery; 9. Wales and Welsh: Boundedness and peripherality
Nikolas Coupland; 10. The political border and linguistic identities in Ireland: What can the linguistic landscape tell us?
Jeffrey L. Kallen; 11. Multilingual Luxembourg: Language and identity at the Romance/Germanic language border
Daniel Redinger and Carmen Llamas; 12. What counts as a linguistic border
for whom
and with what implications? Exploring Occitan and Francoprovençal in Rhône-Alpes
France
Michel Bert and James Costa; 13. Constructing national and international deaf identity: Perceived use of American Sign Language
Elizabeth S. Parks; 14. Borders
variation and identity: Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO)
Kim Wilson and Paul Foulkes