Peter Mühlhäusler

Linguistic Ecology (eBook, ePUB)

Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In "Linguistic Ecology, " Peter Muhlhausler examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonialization, Westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and sociohistorical changes of the past 200 years, he brings a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. Muhlhausler focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change, looking at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity and discussing what happens when these ecologies are disrupted.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134934881
• Artikelnr.: 42815549

Autorenporträt

Peter Mühlhäusler is Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The changing linguistic ecology of the Pacific region 2 Language ecology
in pre-European days 3 Disruptions in the linguistic ecology 4 Pidgins and
creoles 5 Case studies 6 Mission languages and language policies 7 Official
policies and language planning 8 The impact of literacy 9 The impact of
foreign language teaching 10 The sociolinguistics of language shift, decay
and death 11 Assessing the damage: structural and lexical effects 12
Preserving linguistic diversity: outlook and prospects