Sociolinguistics From the Periphery - Small Languages in New Circumstances

Informationen zum Autor Sari Pietikäinen is Professor of Discourse Studies in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Alexandra Jaffe is the author of Ideologies in Action (1999), a prize-winning book on language politics on Corsica. Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes is Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media and Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Nik Coupland is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, and Honorary Professor at the Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen. Klappentext This book offers a fascinating new perspective on language, boundaries, and speakers' impact on individuals' capital and opportunities. Zusammenfassung Four leading scholars present a fascinating book about change: shifting political! economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages in peripheral sites. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Small languages in new circumstances?; 2. Reflexivity and small languages: the 'meta' imperative in late modernity; 3. Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism; 4. Expanding possibilities for commodification: luxury, mobility, visuality; 5. Transgression, small languages, and changing boundaries; 6. A view from the periphery: sociolinguistics, small languages and change.

Product details

• Authors: Nikolas Coupland, Alexandra Jaffe, Jaffe Alexandra, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Sari Pietikainen, Sari Jaffe Pietikainen, Sari Pietikäinen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107123885
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12388-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology