Mixing and Unmixing Languages - Romani Multilingualism in Kosovo

List of contents

Contents
Notes on Orthographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Roma, Prizren & Language
1 Terzimahalla, Durmish Aslano and Me
2 Durmish Aslano in Prizren: From Partizan to NGO
3 Intangible Culture And Tangible Employment After Socialism
Part 2: Purity, Mixture and Representation
4 O Romano Teatro and Gypsy Theatricality
5 Standardisation: Learning Linguistics in the Bath
6 Before the War: A Nostalgic Speech Genre
7 Between two fires? Dissonance, diglossia, disorientation
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Amelia Abercrombie has recently worked as a postdoctoral research associate looking at language learning among marginalised migrants in Manchester, UK. She completed a PhD in the department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2017. Before that she was at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK, completing MRes East European Studies in 2011, and BA Serbian and Croatian Studies in 2008. She has also worked as a support worker for mental health and learning disabilities.

Summary

Mixing and Unmixing Languages uses the politics and practices of language to understand social hierarchies and social change in a post-conflict and post-socialist context. The book focuses on Roma in Prizren, Kosovo, where the author conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork, using language learning as a central method.

Product details

• Authors: Amelia Abercrombie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367860578
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86057-8
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Identity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Kosovo, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Romance Languages (Other), Sociolinguistics, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Romany, Romani (Romany)