33.3598, Books: The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: Brown (ed.)

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:22:33
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: Brown (ed.)

 


Title: The Verticalization Model of Language Shift 
Subtitle: The Great Change in American Communities 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-verticalization-model-of-language-shift-9780198864639?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Joshua R Brown

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198864639 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 85


Abstract:

This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for
understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of
minority language communities in the United States. To date, approaches to
language shift have typically relied on explaining the process through
descriptive sociolinguistic models, i.e., how the community first becomes
bilingual in both the majority and minority languages and then eventually
shifts entirely to the majority language. The contributions in this volume
instead attribute shift to a change from local control of tightly
interconnected 'horizontal' institutions within a community to more external
or 'vertical' control of those increasingly autonomous institutions outside
the community; in short, language shift is driven by specific changes in
community structure. In addition, unlike previous approaches to language
shift, the one proposed here is generalizable.

Following an introduction to the theory, the main five chapters in the book
offer case studies of individual language communities, in different contexts
and different periods. The final three chapters of the book take a broader
perspective, looking beyond the United States: two leading specialists in the
field provide critical commentaries on the theoretical approach and offer
refinements to a theory of language shift, before a concluding chapter draws
together the findings of the case studies and reflections on the commentaries.
The volume will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of language
revitalization, community studies, sociolinguistics, and social history.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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