19.1448, Books: Sociolinguistics: Duch êne, Heller (Eds)

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Date: 28-Apr-2008
From: Simone Gilson < sgilson at continuumbooks.com >
Subject: Discourses of Endangerment: Duchêne, Heller (Eds)

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Title: Discourses of Endangerment 
Subtitle: Ideology and Interest in the Defence of Languages 
Series Title: Advances in Sociolinguistics  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
	   http://www.continuumbooks.com

Book URL: http://www.continuumbooks.com 

Editor: Alexandre Duchêne
Editor: Monica Heller

Paperback: ISBN: 1847063225 9781847063229 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 24.99

Abstract:

Note: This is the paperback edition of a previously announced title.

Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently
focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of
dangers.  Many of these current debates attach great importance to
linguistic diversity.  The debates focus on defending institutionalized
languages against multilingualism, or conversely defending minority
languages against the incursion of larger ones, especially the spread of
English.  In both cases, languages are constructed as autonomous wholes,
held to need defending against attack. This book challenges such a view of
language, to argue that the discussions in question are not in fact about
language itself. The internationally renowned contributors claim that we
are witnessing ideological struggles which are taking place on the terrain
of language. 

'Discourses of Endangerment' addresses such questions as: 
*What does language represent in discussions of multilingualism? 
*Why is it constituted as an organic whole?
*In whose interest does it lie to construct language in this way?
*Who has an interest in taking various positions for or against official
languages?
*In what way is the linguistic order tied to the social order?

The book addresses these issues through a set of case studies which locate
the terms of the discussion in broad discourses of language, identity and
power. Covering a wide-range of languages including Catalan, Swedish,
Corsican, Ukrainian and French, from different sociolinguistic
perspectives, this book is essential reading for students and academics
interested in language endangerment and sociolinguistics. 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=35182

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