Revisiting Ethnolinguistic Vitality

ISBN-13: 9781032171913 / Miękka / 2023 / 210 str.

South Africa.) Ravyse Natasha E. (North West University

Opis

This book examines traditional theories of linguistic vitality in the context of subcultural languages. 

Spis treści

1. The theory before the theory  2. The alchemy of theory building: An overview of methodological considerations  3. Back to the future – Ethnolinguistic vitality  4. The underworld, neo-tribes and fantasy: Culture and language  5. The nitty-gritty – An SLR for subcultural linguistic vitality elements  6. Putting it all together and testing it out  7. The as-fancy-as-it-gets-for-me stats chapter  8. A final word         

O autorze

Natasha E. Ravyse lectures at the North-West University (Faculty of Law), South Africa, and has also received an excellence award in lecturing. She has a PhD in linguistics and literary theory, which was accepted without condition by her international reviewers. She has dedicated her entire postgraduate career to exploring subcultural languages from both a literature and real-world perspective. Her MA received an institutional excellence award for being the best dissertation in 2014, and she is a member of an international honours society for ranking in the top 15% of scholars, on a national stage. She is continuing her research and publications in academic journals.