Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context - Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation

This book proposes a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The political, social and linguistic contexts of French Guiana; 3. The Maroons: historical and anthropological notes; 4. What's in the name Takitaki? Investigating linguistic ideologies; 5. The social profiles of some Takitaki speakers: the data for this study; 6. Towards the linguistic structure of Takitaki: an analysis of Takitaki practices; 7. Communicating in Takitaki: Maroons and non-Maroons in interaction; 8. Linguistic practices among urban Maroons; 9. On Takitaki and its insights.

About the author

Bettina Migge is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University College Dublin.Isabelle Léglise is a permanent Researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads a programme on Language Contact at the SeDyL/CELIA-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues/Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique). Since 2000, she has been engaged in research projects in French Guiana, and, more recently, in Suriname and Brazil, with a special focus on multilingualism, contact-induced changes, language and migration, and educational issues. Her main research interests are language contact, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociology of language and applied linguistics.

Summary

Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties called Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, linguistic fieldwork and language variation and change.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Leglise, Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge, Bettina Leglise Migge, Migge Bettina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107595323
• ISBN: 978-1-107-59532-3
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Pidgins and Creoles, French Guiana