Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.

Este estudio esta dedicado al castellano hablado en la Comunidad Autonoma Vasca (CAV o Pais Vasco) y, en particular, en Getxo. La autora investiga si el castellano hablado en esta region es una unica variedad, o bien se compone de diversas variedades, con un nucleo comun, usadas por los diferentes grupos de hablantes de la comunidad de comunicacion vasca.

En la parte teorica, el estudio responde a esta pregunta elaborando una definicion de que debe entenderse por castellano del Pais Vasco, teniendo en cuenta diversos factores sociales relevantes a la hora de describir la comunidad...

Das Buch behandelt Orthographie aus der Perspektive der Offentlichkeit, der Sprachwissenschaft, des Erwerbs und der Vermittlung. Mit historischem und kritischem Blick bietet es Einsichten in diesen facettenreichen Bereich der Sprache. Es versteht sich als anwendungsorientiert und richtet sich an Studierende der Germanistik, Lehrer und Lehrerinnen des Faches Deutsch sowie Verantwortliche fur schulinterne Fortbildung.

What theories and methods serve to model the relationship between language and shared knowledge? How can genericity be functionally described as a central means of knowledge creation? How is linguistic generalization accomplished in the context of colonial communication? These questions are the subject of a study at the interface between discursive linguistics, (post)-colonial linguistics, the history of linguistic usage, and pragmatism.

The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field of linguistics, specifically to research on situations of language spread on the one hand and concomitant marginalization of minority languages on the other. The authors who contributed to this volume concur as to the applicability of the notion of empire to language-related issues. They address the processes, potential merits and drawbacks of language spread as well...

This handbook introduces key elements of the philological research area called paremiology (the study of proverbs). It presents the main subject area as well as the current status of paremiological research. The basic notions, among others, include defining proverbs, main proverb features, origin, collecting and categorization of proverbs. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar-specialist in their area of proverbial research. Since the book represents a measured balance between the popular and scientific approach, it is recommended to a wide readership including experienced and...

Ein Groteil des Wissens uber "exotische" Sprachen verdanken wir den linguistischen Aktivitaten der Missionare. Ihr Beitrag belief sich v.a. auf die Verschriftlichung, die Beschreibung der Grammatik und Lexik sowie auf die Standardisierung, was in manchen Fallen mit einer eurozentristischen Manipulation der beschriebenen Sprachen einherging. Insgesamt war die koloniale Missionierung als geistige (religiose) Eroberung Teil der politischen Kolonialherrschaft, auch wenn sie manchmal im Widerstreit zur Kolonialverwaltung stand. Die Verdrangung und Diskriminierung der Sprachen hat sie...