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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788981703321

Titolo

Status change of languages / / edited by Ulrich Ammon and Marlis Hellinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , 1992

©1991

ISBN

3-11-085162-8

Edizione

[Library edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition

Altri autori (Persone)

AmmonUlrich

HellingerMarlis

Disciplina

306.4/4

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Linguistic change - Social aspects

Language and languages - Variation

Language and languages - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers in English, French, and German.

Papers contributed to the sociolinguistic section of the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, held in Göttingen, FRG, Oct. 5-7, 1989.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- I. National or Official Languages -- Linguistic Legislation and Prestige Shift / Willemyns, Roland -- The Role of Pressure Groups in the Change of the Status of French in Québec since 1960 / Labrie, Normand -- Changes in the Status and Function of Quechua / Gleich, Utta von -- Status Types and Status Changes in the Arabic Language / Glass, Dagmar / Reuschel, Wolfgang -- Status Change of Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa / Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine -- Socioeconomic Transitions and Language Status Change: The Case of Luxembourg / Davis, Kathryn A. -- Language Status Shift in the United States: A European Perspective / Bister-Broosen, Helga / Willemyns, Roland -- Hindi Language Planning: A Case Study of Status Change / Dua, Hans R. -- In Search of Status: Bahasa Malaysia for National Unification / Jacobson, Rodolfo -- II. Nonstandard or Standardizing Languages -- The Status of Tok Pisin in



Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Predicament / Romaine, Suzanne -- The Changing Status of Melanesian Pidgin English / Mühlhäusler, Peter -- Function and Status Change of Pidgin and Creole Languages / Hellinger, Marlis -- III. Non-Official or Minority Languages -- Three Dilemmas of Organized Efforts to Reverse Language Shift / Fishman, Joshua A. -- The Changing Status of U. S. Spanish: de Facto Second Language? / Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L. -- The Status of a Minority Language in India: A Case Study of Maithili / Boopathy, S. -- Status and Function Changes of Dutch as an Immigrant Language in Australia / Pauwels, Anne -- Problems of Status and Status Change of Yiddish / Biehl, Jürgen -- The Changing Status of English in Switzerland / Dürmüller, Urs -- Evolution et Statut des Variantes Standard et Dialectales de l'Allemand en Alsace / Hartweg, Frédéric -- IV. Varieties of German -- The Status of German as a Language of Science and the Importance of the English Language for German-Speaking Scientists / Skudlik, Sabine -- Recent Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Chemistry / Michels, Stefan -- On the Status and Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Diplomacy / Ammon, Ulrich -- Phases of Language Maintenance and Shift: On the Status of Michigan Franconian / Born, Renate -- Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Status Change: The Case of the Old Order Amish and Related Groups / Raith, Joachim -- V. Special Topics -- Assessing Language Status: Some Problems / Aitchison, Jean -- Der Weg von einem Sprachprojekt zu einer lebenden Welthilfssprache. Einige Aspekte des Statuswandels, dargestellt am Beispiel des Esperanto / Sakaguchi, Alicja -- Deference, Politeness and the Status of Language - A Study in the Variability and Changeability of a Crucial Relationship / Haarmann, Harald -- Sachregister -- Backmatter