Sociolinguistic Parallels Across Europe

Author : Alexander Pavlenko
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659276682
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Parallels Across Europe written by Alexander Pavlenko and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparisons of the linguistic situation established by English and Scots in Lowland Scotland with other situations constituted by pairs of closely cognate languages has become a popular approach in the field of Scots studies. Closely cognate East Slavic languages, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian, can provide abundant material for observation in this respect. Four chapters of this book focus on the major historical and sociolinguistic parallels between Scots on the one hand and Ukrainian and Belarusian on the other, and compare the key stages and trends in their social history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Two other chapters deal with the Russian toponyms derived from Scottish personal names in the territory of the former Russian Empire. Such place-names constitute a noteworthy part of the Scottish legacy in Russia. The final chapter considers a striking example of parallel lexical development in Shetland Norn and Old Russian which may shed more light on the universally recognized etymologies.

Author : Alexander Pavlenko
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781536118797
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Parallels Across Europe written by Alexander Pavlenko and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- What Is Similar and What Is Different in the Social Histories of Scots and Ukrainian? -- The Early Soviet Experience of "Ukrainization" as a Reference-point for Today's Scots Language Activists -- The Case of East Slavic Languages in Sociolinguistic Studies of Scots (a Comparative Approach) -- A Belarusian Perspective on Scots and Its Social History -- An Issue of Language Policy for the Post-Soviet Economies: the Case of Ukraine and Belarus -- A Scottish Trace in Russian Toponymy (Focus on: Two Rural Place-names) -- Hamilton-Khomutov: a Toponymic Dimension of a Russified Scottish Family name -- An Index of the Russian Place-names of "Overt" and "Covert" Scottish Origins -- An Alternative Perspective on Early Scandinavian Borrowing into Russian (Introducing Shetlandic Evidence)

Author : Guus Extra
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853595097
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Languages of Europe written by Guus Extra and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2001 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational perspectives on the status of both regional and immigrant languages in Europe and in a wider international context. From a cross-national point of view, empirical evidence on the status of these other languages of multicultural Europe is brought together in a combined frame of reference.

Author : Andrew Linn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614518955
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigating English in Europe written by Andrew Linn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching or just learning more about the changing role and status of English across Europe. The status of English today is explained in its historical context before the authors present some of the key debates and ideas relating to the challenge English poses for learners, teachers, and language policy makers.

Author : Christine Hélot
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501321
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Awareness in Multilingual Classrooms in Europe written by Christine Hélot and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the scope of today’s globalisation, linguistic diversity is a given fact of the world we live in. In several educational contexts in Europe, language awareness (LA) activities have been introduced with the objective to prepare pupils cognitively, socially and/or critically for life as multilingual, open minded and/or empowered citizens in a diverse world. Despite previous research in various contexts, the concept of LA remains problematic: a generally accepted, evidence-based conceptualisation is missing. This confronts both research and education with a challenge: in order to develop LA activities, implement them successfully in educational contexts and achieve the expected outcomes, we should know what the concept stands for, how it works and why we would choose to implement it in classrooms (or not). This volume focuses on three apparent simple questions: what, how and why? The first question – what? – refers to the concept(ual mess) of LA. The second question – how? – refers to the implementation of LA activities in several educational contexts. The third question – why? – is a recurrent theme running through all the chapters and deals with a reflection on the way we deal (un)consciously with LA activities in education.

Author : Monica Heller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442606207
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Capitalism, Colonialism written by Monica Heller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an original approach to the study of language by linking it to the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism, Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for a twenty-first-century audience. They map out a critical history of how language serves as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The book, organized chronologically, and beginning in the period of colonial expansion in the sixteenth century, covers the development of the modern nation state and then the fascist, communist, and universalist responses to the inequities such nations created. It then moves through the two World Wars and the Cold War that followed, as well as the shift to liberal democracy, the welfare state, and decolonization in the 1960s, ending with the contemporary period, characterized by a globalized economy and neoliberal politics since the 1980s. Throughout, the authors ask how ideas about language get shaped, and by whom, unevenly across sites and periods, offering new perspectives on how to think about language that will both excite and incite further research for years to come.

Author : Florian Coulmas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107037646
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistics written by Florian Coulmas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and updated textbook gives students a coherent view of the complex interaction of language and society.

Author : Nikolas Coupland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316684024
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistics written by Nikolas Coupland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociolinguistics is a dynamic field of research that explains the role and function of language in social life. This book offers the most substantial account available of the core contemporary ideas and arguments in sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on innovation and change. Bringing together original writing by more than twenty of the field's most influential international thinkers and researchers, this is an indispensable guide to the newest and most searching ideas about language in society. For researchers and advanced students it gives access to the field's most pressing issues and debates, as well as providing a platform for new initiatives in sociolinguistic research.

Author : Martin J Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135261059
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistics Around the World written by Martin J Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a survey of research trends in sociolinguistics around the world. This work focuses on traditional variationist sociolinguistics and on the areas of bi- and multilingualism together with diglossia and code-switching, language and culture, language and power and language planning.

Author : Andrew Linn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614515514
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attitudes towards English in Europe written by Andrew Linn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for Europeans to take part in the global market, but increasingly English is viewed as a threat to the national languages of Europe, and the idea that Europeans are equally at home in English is being challenged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in global English.