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Author Ayres-Bennett, Wendy

Title Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Varieties; Romance Languages
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2018

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Description 1 online resource (806 pages)
Series Manuals of Romance Linguistics Ser. ; v. 18
Manuals of Romance Linguistics Ser
Contents Intro; Manuals of Romance Linguistics; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; 0. Romance sociolinguistics: past, present, future; Methodological issues; 1. Annotating oral corpora; 2. Quantitative approaches for modelling variation and change: a case study of sociophonetic data from Occitan; 3. Collecting and analysing creole data; 4. Fieldwork and building corpora for endangered varieties; 5. Romance dialectology: from the nineteenth century to the era of sociolinguistics; Variation and change; 6. Speaker variables in Romance: when demography and ideology collide
7. Speaker variables and their relation to language change8. Variation and grammaticalization in Romance: a cross-linguistic study of the subjunctive; 9. Historical sociolinguistics and tracking language change: sources, text types and genres; 10. Speaker-based approaches to past language states; 11. Variation and prescriptivism; Medium, register, text type, genre; 12. Oral genres: concepts and complexities; 13. Register and text type; 14. New Media: new Romance varieties?; 15. Medium and creole; Linguae minores / Minoritized languages: status, norms, policy and revitalization
16. Language policies in the Romancespeaking countries of Europe17. Linguistic diversity in Spain; 18. The languages and dialects of Italy; 19. Multilingualism in Switzerland; 20. Revitalization and the public space; 21. Revitalization and education; Language contact; 22. Romance in contact with Romance; 23. Language contact between typologically different languages: functional transfer; 24. When Romance meets English; 25. Language contact in a rural community; 26. Code-switching and immigrant communities: the case of Italy; 27. The metropolization of French worldwide
28. Transnational migration and language practices: the impact on Spanish-speaking migrantsContributors; Index of concepts; Index of names
Summary La collection Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) a l'ambition de présenter un panorama d'ensemble de la linguistique romane tenant compte des derniers acquis de la recherche. Elle comprendra une soixantaine de volumes qui pourront être utilisés séparément tout en offrant dans leur totalité une bonne approche globale de l'éventail actuel de la linguistique romane. L'accent sera mis en particulier sur les linguae minores
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Form Electronic book
Author Carruthers, Janice
ISBN 9783110365955
3110365952