Linguistic conservatism as the basis for political revolution? The fusha-'ammiya debate in nineteenth-century Ottoman-Ar...
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Language Planning and Language Ideology in the Ryūkyū Islands
Published in Language Policy
The Ryūkyū Islands were assimilated into the Japanese nation state in 1879, and Standard Japanese started to spread. Pressure for Standard Japanese language became particularly fervent during the national mobilization campaign, which started in 1939. Following the battle of Okinawa in 1945, the Ryūkyū Islands were separated from Japan and placed un...
Code-switching in Chicano Theater : Power, Identity and Style in Three Plays by Cherríe Moraga
The thesis examines local and global functions of code-switching and code-mixing in Chicano theater, i.e. in writing intended for performance. The data of this study consists of three published plays by Chicana playwright Cherríe Moraga. Distinguishing between code-switching and code-mixing, the investigation explores local and global functions of ...
Metasemiosis and Metapragmatics
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
Long confined to mathematical and logical investigation of metalanguage–object language relations, metasemiosis (the process by which signs come to represent other signs) has become, in recent decades, the focus of a growing body of empirical research. The key development has been the recognition by Michael Silverstein of a distinction between meta...
Migration and Language Planning
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
International population movements lead to demographic, educational, political, social, and cultural changes in immigrant-receiving societies. It is highly likely that large-scale movements of people from one speech community to another will further accelerate in the 21st century. Population shifts are already having an impact on various institutio...
Towards a comprehensive description of language varieties: Naming practices, ideologies, and linguistic practices
Although it is well accepted that linguistic naming conventions provide valuable insights into the social and linguistic perceptions of people, this topic has not received much attention in sociolinguistics. Studies focus on the etymology of names, details about the social and historical circumstances of their emergence, and their users, and someti...
Perceptual Dialectology
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
Perceptual dialectology began in The Netherlands and Japan as an investigation of nonlinguists' notions of linguistic differences between one local area and another; the main aim of these investigations was to correlate popular perception with scientifically determined dialect areas. Contemporary work in folk perception has been less concerned with...
Linguistic Anthropology
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
Linguistic anthropology is the study of language in culture and society. The field analyzes linguistic practices as culturally significant actions that constitute social life. The situated use of language is exemplary of the meaning-making process that shapes social worlds saturated with contrasting values and contested interests, with opposed poli...
Folk Linguistics
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
Folk linguistics is that branch of the ethnography of language that investigates what nonlinguists believe about the structure, differentiation, organization, and use of language. Major themes in this research concern investigation into those sorts of linguistic facts that are available to the consciousness of naïve respondents and a cataloging of ...
Language Ideology
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
Language ideology emerged as a separate field of linguistic-anthropological study in the last decades of the 20th century, combining linguistic ethnography with insights from the social-scientific study of ideology. Though the field is still very much under construction, its influence on linguistic anthropology, linguistics, discourse analysis, and...
