Book: Ethnolinguistics/Sociolinguistics

[Scott McGinnis]

       SIL International announces the publication of the third
       volume in its series "SIL Publications in Sociolinguistics"
       with the release of:


       Assessing Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Theory and Practice,
       edited by Gloria E. Kindell and M. Paul Lewis.


       The volume is a collection of selected papers presented at
       SIL's Third International Language Assessment Conference
       held in 1997. These papers, written by leading scholars as
       well as SIL's language survey specialists from around the
       world, reflect various issues related to ethnolinguistic
       vitality and its assessment. The nine papers included in
       the volume represent a variety of interdisciplinary
       approaches coming from the sociology of language, the
       anthropological grid/group model, social network theory,
       motivations for ethnolinguistic vitality maintenance, power
       and solidarity orientations, language ecology, social
       mobilization, and the role of beliefs about language.


       The Table of Contents is as follows:

       Joshua A. Fishman - Reversing Language Shift: RLS Theory
            and Practice Revisited

       Christina Bratt Paulston - Ethnicity, Ethnic Movements, and
            Language Maintenance

       Salikoko S. Mufwene - Language Contact, Evolution, and
            Death: How Ecology Rolls the Dice

       Mark E. Karan - Motivations: Language Vitality Assessments
            Using the Perceived Benefit Model of Language Shift

       M. Paul Lewis - Power and Solidarity as Metrics in Language
            Survey Data Analysis

       Sue Harris Russell - Towards Predicting and Planning for
            Ethnolinguistic Vitality: An Application to the
            Grid/Group Analysis

       Steve Graham - Social Network Analysis: More Toward an
            Application to Sociolinguistic Research and
            Language Development Assessment

       Carolyn P. Miller - Modifying Language Beliefs: A Role for
            Mother-Tongue Advocates?

       Mark E. Karan and Juerg Stalder - Assessing Motivations:
            Techniques for Researching the Motivations behind
            Language Choice.


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