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Language, Borders and Identity.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watt, Dominic.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borderlands.
- Sociolinguistics--Political aspects.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Language and languages.
- Group identity.
- Local Subjects:
- Borderlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Identifying and examining political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders, Language, Borders and Identity encompasses a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, taking a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistics research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology.
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables, Figures and Extracts ; Notes on Contributors ; Introduction ; 1 Language and Identity on the Scottish/English Border ; 2 Where North Meets South? Contact, Divergence and the Routinisation of the Fenland Dialect Boundary; 3 Borders in North American English ; 4 Spanish Language Variation and Ethnic Identity in New Mexico: Internal and External Borders ; 5 Language Use and Attitudes as Stimuli for Phonological Change in Border Uruguayan Spanish
- 6 Religion on the Border: The Effect of Utah English on English and Spanish Use in the Mexican Mormo7 Borders within Borders: Contexts of Language Use and Local Identity Configuration in Southern Gali; 8 Perceptual Ideology across the Scottish/English Border ; 9 Wales and Welsh: Boundedness and Peripherality; 10 The Political Border and Linguistic Identities in Ireland: What Can the Linguistic Landscape Te; 11 Multilingual Luxembourg: Language and Identity at the Romance/Germanic Language Border
- 12 What Counts as a Linguistic Border, for Whom and with What Implications? Exploring Occitan and F13 Constructing National and International Deaf Identity: Perceived Use of American Sign Language ; 14 Borders, Variation and Identity: Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO); References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780748669783
- 0748669787
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