
Title:
Advances in the Study of Societal Multilingualism
Author:
Brudner-White, Lilian A., contributor.
ISBN:
9783111684376
Edition:
Reprint 2014
Physical Description:
1 online resource (842 p.) : Zahlr. Abb.
Series:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 9
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- REFERENCES -- Contents -- PART ONE. Language Contact -- 1. Bilingualism, Language Contact, and Immigrant Languages in the United States: A Research Report 1955-1970 -- 2. Some (German-English) Language Contact Phenomena at the Discourse Level -- 3. Triglossia and Swahili-English Bilingualism in Tanzania -- PART TWO. Language Maintenance and Language Shift -- 4. Occupational Concomitants of Language Variability in Southern Austrian Bilingual Communities -- 5. Yiddish in Israel: A Case Study of Efforts to Revise a Monocentric Language Policy -- 6. Migration and the Decline of the Welsh Language -- 7. Issues and Trends in Frisian Bilingualism -- 8. Doukhobor Russian Language Maintenance -- 9. The Assimilation and Non-Assimilation of European Linguistic Minorities A Sociological Retrospection -- PART THREE. The Spread of Languages of Wider Communication -- 10. The Spread of Amharic in Ethiopia -- 11. English in South Asia -- 12. Distribution of Contact Languages in India A Study of the 1961 Bilingualism Returns -- 13. A Survey of English Use in Jordan -- PART FOUR. The Re-Establishment of Functional Allocation -- 14. Trends in the Study of Athapaskan Language Maintenance and Bilingualism -- 15. Values, Language, and Politics in Canada -- 16. Language in East Africa: Linguistic Patterns and Political Ideologies -- 17. Trends in Bilingualism in Canada -- Addenda -- A1. A Graduate Program in the Sociology of Language -- A2. The Development of the Sociology of Language and Its Social Implications -- Index
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