Folk linguistics / by Nancy A. Niedzielski, Dennis R. Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niedzielski, Nancy A., 1964-

Contributor:

Preston, Dennis Richard.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Language awareness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of that field. Introductory texts often disparage folkbelief in contrast to 'scientific truth'. In fact, language is a ubiquitous topic of discussion and general concern of the folk. They talk about grammar, pronunciation, first and second language learning, language disabilities, dialects, gender and language, and a host of other topics. This book approaches such beliefs as one of most important aspects of ethnography. Surely what a people believe about their language is as important as any other key to an unders

Contents:

Frontmatter

1 Introduction

2 Regionalism

3 Social factors

4 Language acquisition and applied linguistics

5 General and descriptive linguistics

6 The last words

Appendix: Fieldworker and respondent identifications and indent recording data

Notes

References

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-364) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110803389

3110803380

9783111876054

3111876055

OCLC:

794664459