Diaspora Language Contact

Diaspora Language Contact
Title Diaspora Language Contact PDF eBook
Author Jim Hlavac
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 707
Release 2021-10-25
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 150150391X

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This book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable diaspora language community in contact with five languages – English, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish – across four continents. Foregrounded by diachronic descriptions of heritage Croatian in long-standing minority communities the book presents synchronically based studies of the speech of different generations of diaspora speakers. Croatian offers excellent scope as a base language to examine how lexical and morpho-structural innovations occur in a highly inflective Slavic language where external influence from Germanic and Romance languages appears evident. The possibility of internal factors is also addressed and interpretive models of language change are drawn on. With a foreword by Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan

Diaspora Language Contact

Diaspora Language Contact
Title Diaspora Language Contact PDF eBook
Author Jim Hlavac
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 659
Release 2021-10-25
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1501503812

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This book is an innovative contribution to contact linguistics as it presents a rarely studied but sizeable diaspora language community in contact with five languages – English, German, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish – across four continents. Foregrounded by diachronic descriptions of heritage Croatian in long-standing minority communities the book presents synchronically based studies of the speech of different generations of diaspora speakers. Croatian offers excellent scope as a base language to examine how lexical and morpho-structural innovations occur in a highly inflective Slavic language where external influence from Germanic and Romance languages appears evident. The possibility of internal factors is also addressed and interpretive models of language change are drawn on. With a foreword by Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas
Title Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas PDF eBook
Author Cecelia Cutler
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 379
Release 2017-07-12
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027265445

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Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in language contact situations. John Victor Singler’s body of work, a model of what such a research paradigm should look like, strikes a careful balance between sociohistorical and linguistic analysis. The case studies in this volume present investigations into the sociohistorical matrix of language contact and critical insights into the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact within Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, they contribute to ongoing debates about pidgin/creole genesis and language contact by examining and comparing analyses and linguistic outcomes of particular sociohistorical and cultural contexts, and considering less-studied factors such as speaker agency and identity in the emergence, nativization, and stabilization of contact varieties.

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact PDF eBook
Author Salikoko Mufwene
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 947
Release 2022-06-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1009115774

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Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. However, where histories of language contact are comparable, experiences of migrant populations have been only similar, not identical. Given this, how does language contact work? With contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the first in a two-volume set - delves into this question from multiple perspectives and provides state-of-the-art research on population movement and language contact and change. It begins with an overview of how language contact as a research area has evolved since the late 19th century. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with population movement and language contact worldwide. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the dynamics of social interactions in diverse contact settings and how the changing ecologies influence the linguistic outcomes.

Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities

Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities
Title Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities PDF eBook
Author Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 261
Release 2014-07-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027270244

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This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which diasporic children and young people acquire the ‘Chinese’ language. The chapters present a variety of research-based studies on Chinese heritage language education and bilingual education drawing on detailed investigations of formal and informal educational input including language socialization in families, community heritage language schools and government sponsored educational institutions. Exploring the many pathways of learning ‘Chinese’ and being ‘Chinese’, this volume also examines the complex nature of language acquisition and development, involving language attitudes and ideologies as well as linguistic practices and identity formation. Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities is intended for researchers, teacher-educators, students and practitioners in the fields of Chinese language education and bilingual education and more broadly those concerned with language policy studies and sociolinguistics.

Language Contact

Language Contact
Title Language Contact PDF eBook
Author Yaron Matras
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 383
Release 2009-09-10
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0521825350

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An introduction to language contact, which occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other.

Arabic and contact-induced change

Arabic and contact-induced change
Title Arabic and contact-induced change PDF eBook
Author Stefano Manfredi
Publisher Language Science Press
Pages 702
Release 2019
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3961102511

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This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact.