Language And Ethnicity

Author : Carmen Fought
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139458177

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Language and Ethnicity by Carmen Fought Pdf

What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? 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. Drawing on research from a range of ethnic groups around the world, it shows how language contributes to the social and psychological processes involved in the formation of ethnic identity, exploring both the linguistic features of ethnic language varieties and also the ways in which language is used by different ethnic groups. Complete with discussion questions and a glossary, Language and Ethnicity will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, as well as anybody interested in ethnic issues, language and education, inter-ethnic communication, and the relationship between language and identity.

Author : Roxy Harris,Ben Rampton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415276020

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The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader by Roxy Harris,Ben Rampton Pdf

This Reader collects in one volume the key readings on language, ethnicity and race. Using linguistic and cultural analysis, it explores changing ideas of race and the ways in which these ideas shape human communication.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman,Ofelia García,Oxford University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 9780195374926

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Handbook of Language & Ethnic Identity by Joshua A. Fishman,Ofelia García,Oxford University Press Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity.

Author : Robert Brock Le Page,Andrée Tabouret-Keller
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521316049

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Acts of Identity by Robert Brock Le Page,Andrée Tabouret-Keller Pdf

Examining how the complex role of language affects the Creole-speaking Caribbean and the West Indian communities in London.

Author : Nancy H. Hornberger,Sandra Lee McKay
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694010

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Sociolinguistics and Language Education by Nancy H. Hornberger,Sandra Lee McKay Pdf

This book, addressed to experienced and novice language educators, provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, reflecting changes in the global situation and the continuing evolution of the field and its relevance to language education around the world. Topics covered include nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, gender and ethnicity, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, and ideologies and power. Whether considering the role of English as an international language or innovative initiatives in Indigenous language revitalization, in every context of the world sociolinguistic perspectives highlight the fluid and flexible use of language in communities and classrooms, and the importance of teacher practices that open up spaces of awareness and acceptance of --and access to--the widest possible communicative repertoire for students.

Author : Howard Giles
Publisher : London ; New York : Academic Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035462733

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Language, Ethnicity and Intergroup Relations by Howard Giles Pdf

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139500937

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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

Author : William Safran,J.A. Laponce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317983842

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Language, Ethnic Identity and the State by William Safran,J.A. Laponce Pdf

This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability. These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five countries are multilingual nations where language has been a central political issue that has challenged their unity and stability. These studies are underpinned by two general, comparative and theoretical discussions, which analyse how scholars consider social class and economic factors to be the primary sources for political cohesion or of malcontent with the system and the new avenues opened by a focus on issues of langauge. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of linguistics, language, politics and sociology. This is a special issue of the leading journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : Howard Giles,Bernard Saint-Jacques
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : UCSC:32106006211400

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Language and Ethnic Relations by Howard Giles,Bernard Saint-Jacques Pdf

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110106884

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Language in Ethnicity by Harald Haarmann Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309140126

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Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement Pdf

The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.

Author : Emeritus at Yeshiva University Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199728206

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Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity by Emeritus at Yeshiva University Joshua A. Fishman Distinguished University Research Professor of Social Sciences Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the connection between language and ethnicity. Since the "ethnic revival" of the last twenty years, there has been a substantial and interdisciplinary change in our understanding of the connection between these fundamental aspects of our identity. The distinguished sociolinguist Joshua Fishman has commissioned over 25 previously unpublished papers on every facet of the subject. The volume is divided into two sections, the first examining disciplinary perspectives on the subject; the second uses the prism of geography, looking at the subject in the context of Africa, Scandinavia, Germany and the rest of Western Europe, North America and elsewhere. The volume is truly interdisciplinary and the contributors are all distinguished figures in their fields. Each chapter is followed by thought provoking questions and essential bibliography, and Fishman pulls together the various views that have been expressed and shows how they differ and how they are alike.The volume is useful as a scholarly reference, a resource for the lay reader, and can also be used as a text in ethnicity courses.

Author : Kevin McCafferty
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027218382

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Ethnicity and Language Change by Kevin McCafferty Pdf

Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this book takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealised folk model of harmonious communities, in spite of the social divide and open conflict that have long affected the region; this model affects daily life and sociolinguistic studies alike. A reading of sociolinguistic studies from the region reveals ethnolinguistic differentiation. Qualitative analysis of material from (London)Derry shows people often stressing tolerance in their community, while accounts of their activities contain evidence of ethnic division and strife. Quantitative analysis charts six changes in (London)Derry English. Variation correlates to varying degrees with age, ethnicity, class, sex and social network. The ethnic dimension, while not the most important parameter in all cases, plays a role in relation to all the changes examined.

Author : James R. Dow
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027220813

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Language and Ethnicity by James R. Dow Pdf

An impressive collection of theoretical perspectives and empirical data which includes papers on Catalan, Galician, Tagalog, and the minority languages of Kenya. Most of the contributions deal with ethnic minorities in North America: language maintenance and shift and cultural aspects of various language minorities' as well as Judeo-English and Yiddish spoken by children of Jewish immigrants.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 180041806X

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Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

This book brings together a selection of Professor Fishman's writings on language and ethnicity in minority perspective. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.