Language And Linguistic Diversity In The Us

Author : Susan Tamasi,Lamont Antieau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136579059

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Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US by Susan Tamasi,Lamont Antieau Pdf

This highly engaging textbook presents a linguistic view of the history, society, and culture of the United States. It discusses the many languages and forms of language that have been used in the US – including standard and nonstandard forms of English, creoles, Native American languages, and immigrant languages from across the globe – and shows how this distribution and diversity of languages has helped shape and define America as well as an American identity. The volume introduces the basic concepts of sociolinguistics and the politics of language through cohesive, up-to-date and accessible coverage of such key topics as dialectal development and the role of English as the majority language, controversies concerning language use in society, languages other than English used in the US, and the policies that have directly or indirectly influenced language use. These topics are presented in such a way that students can examine the inherent diversity of the communicative systems used in the United States as both a form of cultural enrichment and as the basis for socio-political conflict. The author team outlines the different viewpoints on contemporary issues surrounding language in the US and contextualizes these issues within linguistic facts, to help students think critically and formulate logical discussions. To provide opportunities for further examination and debate, chapters are organized around key misconceptions or questions ("I don't have an accent" or "Immigrants don't want to learn English"), bringing them to the forefront for readers to address directly. Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US is a fresh and unique take on a widely taught topic. It is ideal for students from a variety of disciplines or with no prior knowledge of the field, and a useful text for introductory courses on language in the US, American English, language variation, language ideology, and sociolinguistics.

Author : Marianna Di Paolo,Arthur K. Spears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317916192

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Languages and Dialects in the U.S. by Marianna Di Paolo,Arthur K. Spears Pdf

Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is a concise introduction to linguistic diversity in the U.S. for students with little to no background in linguistics. The goal of the editors of this collection of fourteen chapters, written by leading experts on the language varieties discussed, is to offer students detailed insight into the languages they speak or hear around them, grounded in comprehensive coverage of the linguistic systems underpinning them. The book begins with "setting the stage" chapters, introducing the sociocultural context of the languages and dialects featured in the book. The remaining chapters are each devoted to particular U.S. dialects and varieties of American English, each with problem sets and suggested further readings to reinforce basic concepts and new linguistic terminology and to encourage further study of the languages and dialects covered. By presenting students with both the linguistic and social, cultural, and political foundations of these particular dialects and variations of English, Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is the ideal text for students interested in linguistic diversity in the U.S., in introductory courses in sociolinguistics, language and culture, and language variation and change.

Author : Kim Potowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139491266

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Language Diversity in the USA by Kim Potowski Pdf

What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history, current demographics, community characteristics, economic status, and language maintenance of each language group, and looks ahead to the future of each language. The book challenges myths about the 'official' language of the USA, explores the degree to which today's immigrants are learning English and assimilating into the mainstream, and discusses the relationship between linguistic diversity and national unity. Written in a coherent and structured style, Language Diversity in the USA is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and education.

Author : Kendall A. King,Natalie Schilling,Lyn Wright Fogle,Jia Jackie Lou,Barbara Soukup
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781589014169

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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity by Kendall A. King,Natalie Schilling,Lyn Wright Fogle,Jia Jackie Lou,Barbara Soukup Pdf

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangerment—how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued.

Author : Ana Roca,John M. Lipski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110885590

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Spanish in the United States by Ana Roca,John M. Lipski Pdf

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Author : William Labov
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813933276

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Dialect Diversity in America by William Labov Pdf

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of North American English are increasingly diverging from one another over time. Contrary to the general expectation that mass culture would diminish regional differences, the dialects of Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Birmingham, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and New York are now more different from each other than they were a hundred years ago. Equally significant is Labov's finding that AAVE does not map with the geography and timing of changes in other dialects. The home dialect of most African American speakers has developed a grammar that is more and more different from that of the white mainstream dialects in the major cities studied and yet highly homogeneous throughout the United States. Labov describes the political forces that drive these ongoing changes, as well as the political consequences in public debate. The author also considers the recent geographical reversal of political parties in the Blue States and the Red States and the parallels between dialect differences and the results of recent presidential elections. Finally, in attempting to account for the history and geography of linguistic change among whites, Labov highlights fascinating correlations between patterns of linguistic divergence and the politics of race and slavery, going back to the antebellum United States. Complemented by an online collection of audio files that illustrate key dialectical nuances, Dialect Diversity in America offers an unparalleled sociolinguistic study from a preeminent scholar in the field.

Author : Douglas A. Kibbee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107025318

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Language and the Law by Douglas A. Kibbee Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the political and legal consequences of linguistic inequality in the United States.

Author : Fern L. Johnson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0803959125

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Speaking Culturally by Fern L. Johnson Pdf

Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. The author highlights the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.

Author : Sandra McKay,Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Publisher : Newbury House Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language and education
ISBN : UCSC:32106009054997

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Language Diversity, Problem Or Resource? by Sandra McKay,Sau-ling Cynthia Wong Pdf

Author : Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110258035

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The Indigenous Languages of South America by Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona Pdf

The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.

Author : Marcia Farr,Lisya Seloni,Juyoung Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135183691

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Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education by Marcia Farr,Lisya Seloni,Juyoung Song Pdf

In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and education, this volume: provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of US English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages explores the impact of dialect differences and community languages on ethnolinguistically diverse students’ academic achievement challenges the dominant monolingual Standard language ideology presents sociolinguistically based approaches to language and literacy education that acknowledge and build on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school. Throughout, the authors argue for the application of research-based knowledge to the dire situation (as measured by school failure and drop-out rates) of many ethnolinguistic populations in US schools. The overall aim of the volume is to heighten acknowledgement and recognition of the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the schools and to explore ways in which these resources can be used to extend the sociolinguistic repertoires, including academic English, of all students.

Author : Pierre Orelus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135941970

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Affirming Language Diversity in Schools and Society by Pierre Orelus Pdf

Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved. This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European colonizers and American neoconservative groups. These groups have historically imposed hegemonic languages, such as English and French, on colonized people at the expense of the native languages of the latter. The book traces this form of apartheid from the colonial era to the English-only movement in the United States, and proposes alternative ways to counter linguistic apartheid that minority groups and students have faced in schools and society at large. Contributors to this volume provide a historical overview of the way many languages labeled as inferior, minority, or simply savage have been attacked and pushed to the margins, discriminating against and attempting to silence the voice of those who spoke and continue to speak these languages. Further, they demonstrate the way and the extent to which such actions have affected the cultural life, learning process, identity, and the subjective and material conditions of linguistically and historically marginalized groups, including students.

Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Adam Hodges,David S. Rood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294623

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Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories by Zygmunt Frajzyngier,Adam Hodges,David S. Rood Pdf

From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in the evolution of useful, accurate linguistic theories. Issues addressed include the determination of meaning in typological studies; a refined understanding of diachronic processes by including intentional, social, statistical, and level-determined phenomena; the reconsideration of categories such as sentence, evidential or adposition, and structures such as compounds or polysynthesis; the tension between formal simplicity and functional clarity; the inclusion of unusual systems in theoretical debates; and fresh approaches to Chinese classifiers, possession in Oceanic languages, and English aspect. This is a careful selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the Symposium was to confront fundamental issues in language structure and change with the rich variation of forms and functions observed across languages.

Author : Deirdre Martin
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847691590

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Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity by Deirdre Martin Pdf

Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity offers a new approach to understanding the familiar dilemma of disentangling difficulties in communication for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a socio-cultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness.

Author : Terry A. Osborn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313064715

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Language and Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools by Terry A. Osborn Pdf

Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with public ire and a deep misunderstanding of how diversity serves learning. This work explains how diversity is an essential element in classroom settings. As children from around the world continue to pour into U.S. classrooms, an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in its broadest sense moves to the foreground. In a post 9/11 world, the benefits of understanding diversity take on urgent meaning. The introdutory chapter, Participating in Democracy Means Participating in Schools, sets the tone for the discussion to follow. As the geographic backgrounds of immigrants becomes increasingly diverse, religion must be added to previous discussions of race, ethnicity, and language. Thus, the need for the public to understand how shifts in population affect schools, makes this work a vital resource for anyone concerned with education today.