Contrastive Sociolinguistics

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Marlis Hellinger, Ulrich Ammon
Walter de Gruyter, 1996 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 504 pages

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

 

Contents

An introduction
1
On comparing linguistic minorities
37
Its characteristics and properties
57
Codeswitching rationales
77
A comparison of internal
103
A contrastive analysis of language use and contact in the Alemannic
135
Educational language choice multilingual diversity or monolingual
175
vi
205
Ausbau and Abstand
271
The typology of dictionaries of Englishbased pidgins and creoles
291
The case
345
Aspects of the realization
363
Concepts of communicative virtues CCV in Japanese and German
385
A comparison between
411
Malefemale speaking practices across cultures
447
Narrative universals? Some considerations and perspectives
475

A contrastive
229
Some
251

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