Language and Ethnicity

Informationen zum Autor Carmen Fought is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College, Claremont, California. Klappentext Explores the crucial role of language in constructing and revealing a speaker's ethnic identity. Zusammenfassung What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? This lively overview! first published in 2006! reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity! exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. General Issues in Ethnicity and Language: 1. What is ethnicity?; 2. Language and the construction of ethnic identity; Part II. Linguistic Features and Ethnicity in Specific Groups: 3. African-American groups; 4. Latino groups; 5. Linguistic variation in other multiethnic settings; 6. Are white people ethnic? Whiteness, dominance, and ethnicity; 7. Dialect contact, ethnicity and language change; Part III. The Role of Language Use in Ethnicity: 8. Discourse features, pragmatics and ethnicity; 9. Interethnic communication and language prejudice; 10. Crossing: may I borrow your ethnicity?; Discussion questions; Glossary.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Fought, Carmen (Pitzer College Fought
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521612913
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61291-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology