Language, borders and identity / edited by Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watt, Dominic James Landon, editor.

Llamas, Carmen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Borderlands.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

xvii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Drawing on a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of studies of language use and attitudes in a variety of border contexts, Language Borders and Identity takes an integrative interdisciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with insights and investigative techniques from human geography, anthropology and social psychology. The book illustrates a range of methodological approaches used by researchers in the field and examines socio psychological and 'relic' borders alongside the contemporary political borders that divide monglossic and regional and local borders alongside the political borders that divide monoglossic and heteroglossic territories. Using international case studies and examples throughout, this book also looks to symbolic borders, which are often encoded in the semiotic manipulation of the linguistic landscape. It further assesses the linguistic implications of the presence of borders in applied contexts, including language planning and policy (e.g. in multilingual education or for the protection of minority languages) and the role of linguistic behaviour in the enforcement of border control. Language Borders and Identity develops and refines models of how language is used to construct borders, and how it serves to index how speaker place themselves with respect to these boundaries. Through exploration of the tensions between essentialist and construction approaches to identity this book brings into focus the dual reactive and proactive functions that language serves in this respect, and offers a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Language and Identity on the Scottish/English Border / Dominic Watt Watt, Dominic, Carmen Llamas Llamas, Carmen, Gerard Docherty Docherty, Gerard, Damien Hall Hall, Damien, Jennifer Nycz Nycz, Jennifer 8

2 Where North Meets South? Contact, Divergence and the Routinisation of the Fenland Dialect Boundary / David Britain Britain, David 27

3 Borders in North American English / Charles Boberg Boberg, Charles 44

4 Spanish Language Variation and Ethnic Identity in New Mexico: Internal and External Borders / Neddy A. Vigil Vigil, Neddy A., Garland D. Bills Bills, Garland D. 55

5 Language Use and Attitudes as Stimuli for Phonological Change in Border Uruguayan Spanish / Mark Waltermire Waltermire, Mark 70

6 Religion on the Border: The Effect of Utah English on English and Spanish Use in the Mexican Mormon Colonies / Wendy Baker-Smemoe Baker-Smemoe, Wendy, Breana Jones Jones, Breana 90

7 Borders within Borders: Contexts of Language Use and Local Identity Configuration in Southern Galicia / Jaine Beswick Beswick, Jaine 105

8 Perceptual Ideology across the Scottish/English Border / Chris Montgomery Montgomery, Chris 118

9 Wales and Welsh: Boundedness and Peripherality / Nikolas Coupland Coupland, Nikolas 137

10 The Political Border and Linguistic Identities in Ireland: What Can the Linguistic Landscape Tell Us? / Jeffrey L. Kallen Kallen, Jeffrey L. 154

11 Multilingual Luxembourg: Language and Identity at the Romance/Germanic Language Border / Daniel Redinger Redinger, Daniel, Carmen Llamas Llamas, Carmen 169

12 Whit Counts as a Linguistic Border, for Whom, and with What Implications? Exploring Occitan and Francoprovencal in Rhone-Alpes, France / Michel Bert Bert, Michel, James Costa Costa, James 186

13 Constructing National and International Deaf Identity: Perceived Use of American Sign Language / Elizabeth S. Parks Parks, Elizabeth S. 206

14 Borders, Variation and Identity: Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO) / Kim Wilson Wilson, Kim, Paul Foulkes Foulkes, Paul 218.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-257) and index.

ISBN:

9780748669776

0748669779

9780748669769

0748669760

OCLC:

883425294