Language in Geographic Context
Author : Colin H. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780853590026
Author : Colin H. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780853590026
Author : Colin H. Williams
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853590016
This book contains key research in the developing field of geolinguistics. It examines the main relationships in the study of language and territory, namely the social context of linguistic communities, the principles and methods of geolinguistic and the translation of these principles into government action and policy in multilingual societies.
Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030024376
This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of languages and linguistic diversity, on language in the context of politics, on the relevance of language to cultural identity, on language minorities and endangered languages, and also on language and the arts and non-human language and communication. This reference work looks at the subject matter and contributors to the disciplines and programs in the social sciences and humanities, and the dearth of materials on languages and linguistics. The topics covered are not only discipline-centered, but in the cutting-edge fields that intersect several disciplines and also cut across the social sciences and humanities. These include gender studies, sustainability and development, technology and social media impacts, law and human rights, climate change, public health and epidemiology, architecture, religion, visual representation and mapping. These new and emerging research directions and other intersecting fields are not traditionally discipline-bounded, but cut across numerous fields. The volumes will appeal to those within existing fields and disciplines and those working the intersections at local, regional and global scales.
Author : Nicholas Fotion
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761871047
When we use language, we presuppose many different things. Context is another name for these presuppositions. But it also can be the name of all these different presuppositions ordered in a certain way. This study of context focuses on the differences since many studies of context focus excessively on usage found in the sciences and in everyday observations. Other uses such as promising, giving directions, evaluating (i.e., ranking) all sorts of things around us, expressing our feelings, and issuing declarations (e.g., “You are promoted”) are equally important. The analogy of ‘geography,’ as used in this study, suggests that one important way to study context is to attend to all, not just one, of the “continents” found in the “planet” that we call context. Once we learn our geography lesson, we come to a better understanding of how context can change, how it can be ordered, and how it can be examined. We also learn how layered, and thus how complicated it is.
Author : B. O'Rourke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230294820
An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language. The author examines this role through a cross-national comparative analysis of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and Galician in the Autonomous Community of Galicia in north-west Spain.
Author : Reg Hindley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113508419X
Using a blend of statistical analysis with field survery among native Irish speakers, Reg Hindley explores the reasons for the decline of the Irish language and investigates the relationships between geographical environment and language retention. He puts Irish into a broader European context as a European minority language, and assesses its present position and prospects.
Author : Michele Gazzola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0429828926
The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts. The Handbook approaches language policy as public policy that can be studied through the policy cycle framework. It offers a systematic and research-informed view of actual processes and methods of design, implementation, and evaluation. With a substantial introduction, 38 chapters and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all decision makers, students, and researchers of language policy and planning within linguistics and cognate disciplines such as public policy, economics, political science, sociology, and education.
Author : François Grin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027258279
This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe. The various concepts and tools brought to bear on multilingualism are analytically combined in an integrative framework starting from a core insight: in its approach to multilingualism, Europe is pursuing two equally worthy, but non-converging goals, namely, the mobility of citizens across national boundaries (and hence across languages and cultures) and the preservation of Europe’s diversity, which presupposes that each locale nurtures its linguistic and cultural uniqueness, and has the means to include newcomers in its specific linguistic and cultural environment. In this book, scholars from applied linguistics, economics, the education sciences, finance, geography, history, law, political science, philosophy, psychology, sociology and translation studies apply their specific approaches to this common challenge. Without compromising the state-of-the-art analysis proposed in each chapter, particular attention is devoted to ensuring the cross-disciplinary accessibility of concepts and methods, making this book the most deeply interdisciplinary volume on language policy and planning published to date.
Author : Hans Goebl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN : 3110132648
Author : Huw Lewis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3030801896
This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is widely regarded as one that witnessed a series of fundamental social, economic and political transformations. Many societies have become increasingly individualistic, mobile and diverse in terms of ethnicity and identity; their economies have become increasingly interconnected; and their governance structures have become increasingly complex, incorporating a growing number of different levels and actors. In addition, rapid advancements with regard to automated, digital and communication technology have had a far-reaching impact on how people interact with each other and participate in society. The chapters in this book aim to advance an agenda of key questions that should concern those working in the field of language revitalisation over the coming years, and the volume will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers in related areas including sociolinguistics, education, sociology, geography, political science, law, economics, Celtic studies, and communication technology.