<div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all">Social Lives in Language - Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Meyerhoff, Nagy (Eds)<br><br><br>Social Lives in Language - Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff <br>
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 24 <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: John Benjamins<br> <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/">http://www.benjamins.com/ </a><br><br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Impact%2024">http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Impact%2024 </a><br>
<br>Editor: Miriam Meyerhoff <br>Editor: Naomi Nagy <br><br>Abstract:<br><br>This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language <br>ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the <br>
world's speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics <br>ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating <br>social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual <br>
communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, <br>South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it <br>explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect <br>
contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, <br>particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding <br>social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing <br>
language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice <br>and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in <br>enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical <br>
findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities. </div>
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