33.3599, Books: Language, Writing, and Mobility: Coulmas

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Subject: 33.3599, Books: Language, Writing, and Mobility: Coulmas

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:23:43
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Language, Writing, and Mobility: Coulmas

 


Title: Language, Writing, and Mobility 
Subtitle: A Sociological Perspective 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/language-writing-and-mobility-9780192897435?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Florian Coulmas

Hardback: ISBN:  9780192897435 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 85


Abstract:

This book explores the interaction between three key aspects of everyday
life—language, writing, and mobility —with particular focus on their effects
on language contact. While the book adopts an established view of language and
society that is in keeping with the sociolinguistic paradigm developed in
recent decades, it differs from earlier studies in that it assigns writing a
central position. Sociolinguistics has long concentrated primarily on speech,
but Florian Coulmas shows in this volume that the social importance of writing
should not be disregarded: it is the most consequential technology ever
invented; it suggests stability; and it defines borders. Linguistic studies
have often emphasized that writing is external to language, but the discipline
nevertheless owes its analytic categories to writing. Finally, the digital
revolution has fundamentally changed communication patterns, transforming the
social functions of writing and consequently also of language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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