Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity? : New and Old Language Diversities / Reetta Toivanen, Janne Saarikivi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saarikivi, Janne, Editor.

Toivanen, Reetta, Editor.

Series:

Linguistic diversity and language rights ; 14.

Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Endangered languages.

Code switching (Linguistics).

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and the EU, the authors compare historical language variation to that of the present day, arguing that accelerated language extinction can be considered a result of colonization, modernization and globalization, but so too can many new creoles, intertwined and mixed languages, new ethnic identities, new groups of urban dwellers or migrant groups, all with their own distinct cultural traits. The book therefore surmises that the linguistic heritage of today is simultaneously more endangered and more diverse than ever before.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction to New and Old Language Diversities: Language Variation and Endangerment in Changing Minority Communities

1. Fragmentation of the Karelian Language and Its Community: Growing Variation at the Threshold of Language Shift

2.What’s Up Helsinki?: Linguistic Diversity Among Suburban Adolescents

3. Varieties of Erzya–Russian Code-Switching in Radio Vaygel Broadcasts

4. Udmurt on Social Network Sites: A Comparison with the Welsh Case

5. A Tale of a City and Its Two Languages: A History of Bilingual Practices in the City of Bilbao

6. Nationalising Fluid and Ambiguous Identities: Russia, Western Ukraine and Their Ukrainian and Russian Minorities, Diasporas and ‘Compatriots Abroad’

7. Emergent Sámi Identities: From Assimilation Towards Revitalisation

8. Localising the Global in the Superdiverse Municipalities of the Arctic: The Case of Inari

9. Russia’s Minority Education and the European Language Charter

10. Metadiversity, or the Uniqueness of the Lambs

11. Division of Responsibility in Karelian and Veps Language Revitalisation Discourse

12. Standard Language Ideology and Minority Languages: The Case of the Permian Languages

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781783096077

1783096071

9781783096060

1783096063

OCLC:

961357269