Sociolinguistics from the Periphery : Small Languages in New Circumstances
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery : Small Languages in New Circumstances
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Author(s): Coupland, Nik
Coupland, Nikolas
Jaffe, Alexandra
Pietikäinen, Sari
ISBN No.: 9781107123885
Pages: 248
Year: 201606
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 180.86
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sami, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction that peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of peripheral resources, and boundary-transgression with humour, all carry forward change. These types of change articulate a blurring of binary oppositions between centre and periphery, old and new, and standard and non-standard. Such research is particularly urgent in multilingual small language contexts, where different conceptualisations of language(s), boundaries, and speakers impact on individuals' social, cultural, and economic capital, and opportunities.".


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