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Author Heller, Monica, author

Title Sustaining the nation : the making and moving of language and nation / Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin, and Hubert Noël
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Contents Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation -- The Making of a Mobile Ethnoclass -- Building Bridges to Current Mobility -- Moving Along, Back and Forth -- Sustaining What Nation? Language and Labour in Cultural Economies -- Conclusion: Can the Nation be Sustained -- Bibliography
Summary The authors provides an ethnographic investigation of language, nationalism, mobility and political economyset across francophone Canada. They examine how social difference - race, ethnicity, language, gender - has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organisation of global circulation of human and natural resources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 14, 2015)
Subject Anthropological linguistics -- Canada
French language -- Canada.
Identity (Psychology) -- Canada
Sociolinguistics -- Canada
Anthropological linguistics
French language
Identity (Psychology)
Sociolinguistics
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Bell, Lindsay A. (Anthropologist), author.
Daveluy, Michelle, 1960- author.
McLaughlin, Miriam Smith, author
Noël, Hubert (Linguistic Anthropologist), author.
ISBN 9780190267391
0190267399
0199947201
9780199947201