"As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her o…
Macro- and micro-sociolinguistic dimensions of codeswitching in Vingard (Romani a), by Erica McClure and Malcolm McClure. Codeswitching and comedy in Catalonia, by Kathryn A. Woolard. Strategic ambiguity, by Monica Heller. Mix-im-up, by P atrick McConvell. Codeswitching as index…
Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives (Contributions to the Sociology of Language).
Theoretical approaches to linguistic variation
The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to d…
