Language and Society : : Anthropological Issues / / ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ABU-LABAN, BAHA,; AFENDRAS, EVANGELOS A.,; ALBÓ, XAVIER,; ARMSTRONG, ROBERT G.,; BOURHIS, RICHARD,; BRANN, C. Μ. B.,; CHENG, ROBERT L.,; CROCKETT, HARRY J.,; DAKUBU, Μ. E. KROPP,; DARNELL, REGNA,; DAVIES, ANN,; DIL, ANWAR S.,; DÉCSY, GYULA,; FERGUSON, CHARLES A.,; FISHMAN, JOSHUA A.,; GILES, HOWARD,; GUBOGLO, M.,; HEYE, JÜRGEN,; HIDALGO, ARACELI,; JOLLY, GRACE,; KHUBCHANDANI, LACHMAN M.,; KRISHNAMURTI, BH.,; KUMANËV, V. A.,; LAKSHMANNA, C.,; LEVINE, LEWIS,; LEWIS, E. GLYN,; LINDENFELD, JACQUELINE,; MARAINI, FOSCO,; MUTHIANI, JOSEPH,; McCORMACK, WILLIAM C.,; McDAVID, RAVEN I.,; ORNSTEIN, JACOB,; PANDIT, P. B.,; PASCASIO, ΕMY M.,; PRIDE, J. B.,; PULTE, WILLIAM,; ROSS, JOHN,; SAMPSON, GLORIA PAULIK,; SCOTTON, CAROL MYERS,; SILVERMAN, ELLEN-MARIE,; SILVERMAN, FRANKLIN H.,; SMITH, R. B.,; SOUTHWORTH, FRANKLIN C.,; TRUEBA, HENRY TORRES,; URE, JEAN,; VANEK, ANTHONY L.,; VERDOODT, A.,; WARSHAY, DIANA WORTMAN,; WURM, S. A.,; YADAVA, J. S.,; YAMAMOTO, AKIRA,; ΑΡΤΕ, MAHADEV L.,
• HerausgeberIn: McCormack, William C.,; Wurm, Stephen A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (771 p.)
• Other title: I-IV --; General Editor's Preface --; Preface --; SECTION ONE Introductory --; Introduction --; SECTION TWO Social Meaning of Language --; A Transactional View of Speech Functions and Codeswitching --; Extralinguistic Variables and Linguistic Description --; Sociolinguistic Aspects of Pronoun Usage in Middle English --; Codeswitching as a "Safe Choice" in Choosing a Lingua Franca --; Other People's Words: An Aspect of Style in Ga Songs --; How Role-Relationships, Domains, and Speech Situations Affect Language Use Among Bilinguals --; Correlational Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Communication --; SECTION THREE Survey Techniques --; Sociological Aspects of Black English Dialects in the United States --; Communication in Culture Spaces --; Sociolinguistic Variation and Semantic Structure: The Case of Tamil kaRi --; Perspectives on Sociolinguistics in India --; A Demographic Typology for Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi Speakers in South Asia --; Social Mobility and Specialization in Language Use --; Modal and Modish Pronunciations: Some Sex Differences in Speech --; The Effects of Marital Status and Age on Sex Differences in Language Style --; Sampling, Elicitation, and Interpretation: Orléans and Elsewhere --; Social Differences in White Speech --; Language Choice and Socialization in a Multilingual Community: Language Use Among Primary School Teachers in Ghana --; Relational Bilingualism: A Socioeducational Approach to Studying Multilingualism Among Mexican-Americans --; SECTION FOUR Language and Cultural Identity --; The Future of the Oppressed Languages in the Andes --; A Comparative Study of Language Contact: The Influence of Demographic Factors in Wales and the Soviet Union --; Linguistic Contacts and Elements of Ethnic Identification --; Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation --; Sociopsychological Bases of Language Choice and Use: The Case of Swahili Vernaculars and English in Kenya --; Cree-English Bilingualism in Northern Alberta --; Bilingualism and Language Maintenance in Two Communities in Santa Catarina, Brazil --; Cherokee: A Flourishing or Obsolescing Language? --; Chicano Bilingual/Bicultural Education --; Helping Africans to Speak for Themselves: The Role of Linguistics --; SECTION FIVE Modernization --; A Typology of Language Education in Nigeria --; Social and Linguistic Structures of Burundi, a Typical "Unimodal" Country --; The Sociolinguistic Structure of the Danube Basin --; Language Unification in Taiwan: Present and Future --; The Persistence of the Ideographic Script in the Far East: Its Competitive Values Versus the Alphabet --; Prestige Speech Styles: The Imposed Norm and Inherent Value Hypotheses --; Attitudes Toward the Adoption of an International Language --; East Europeans and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Alberta --; Universal Literacy of the Formerly Backward Peoples of the Soviet Union: A Factor of Their Social Self Awareness --; Communication in an Indian Village --; Emerging Patterns of Communication Networks in a Developing Society --; Network Concepts in the Sociology of Language --; Problems of Language Standardization in India --; Universals of Language Planning in National Development --; The Dimensionality and Predictability of Responses to Language Planning Activities --; SECTION SIX Discussion --; Summary of Discussion --; Biographical Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110806489; 9783110636772
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110806489
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, William C. McCormack.