Heritage Languages - Extending Variationist Approaches

List of contents

1. What Are Heritage Languages and Why Should We Study Them?; 2. Experimental and Variationist Research on Heritage Languages; 3. The Toronto Context; 4. HLVC Methods and Tools; 5. Cross-Variety Comparisons; 6. Cross-Language Comparisons; 7. Heritage Cantonese: A Case Study; 8. Indexicality in Heritage Languages; 9. Analyzing Heritage Languages in Linguistics Classes; 10. What Heritage Language Speakers Tell Us about Language, Variation and Change; 11. Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Naomi Nagy is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. She has conducted sociolinguistic fieldwork in Italy, Canada, and the United States. She directs the Heritage Language Variation and Change Project, examining ten heritage languages. Recent publications include Variation at the crossroads: Advancing theory by integrating methods (2017) and Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America (2018).

Summary

Reporting a large-scale project, this is the first book to investigate heritage language variation and change across 3 generations, in 8 under-documented languages spoken in Toronto, with homeland comparisons. It introduces new methods for multilingual data collection, curation, quantitative analysis and interpretation of spontaneous speech.

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Nagy, Naomi (University of Toronto) Nagy, Nagy Naomi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2024
• EAN: 9781316518229
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51822-9
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Ontario, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Southwestern Ontario: Greater Toronto Area, North & Central American indigenous languages, North and Central American indigenous languages