Social lives in language
Subtitle: sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff
By: edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy.
Contributors: Sankoff, Gillian.; Meyerhoff, Miriam.; Nagy, Naomi.
Publisher: John Benjamins; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789027218636
Subjects: Sociolinguistics
Description: "This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world's speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/ dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.