Singular and Plural - Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

Zusatztext "Woolard's study provides a rich seam of analysis to consider the changing dynamics of status, role and perception of Catalonia's two languages: Catalan and Castilian." --Andrew Dowling, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Woolard is a linguistic anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Woolard is author of Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia (Stanford 1989, reissued 2015) and co-editor of Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (Oxford, 1998) and Language and Publics (St. Jerome 2001; Routledge 2014). She is past president of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext Singular and Plural develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and illuminates the institutional and interpersonal politics of language in Catalonia. Drawing on ethnographic research across thirty years of political autonomy, Kathryn Woolard shows new relationships of Catalan language, identity, and politics.Winner of the 2017 Edward Sapir Book Prize Zusammenfassung Singular and Plural develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and illuminates the institutional and interpersonal politics of language in Catalonia. Drawing on ethnographic research across thirty years of political autonomy, Kathryn Woolard shows new relationships of Catalan language, identity, and politics.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kathryn A. Woolard, Kathryn A. (Professor of Anthropology Woolard, Woolard Kathryn A.
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.08.2016
• EAN: 9780190258610
• ISBN: 978-0-19-025861-0
• Seiten: 392
• Serien: Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language; Oxf Studies in Anthropology of
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, catalan