21.5192, Books: Anthropological Ling/Socioling: Mitchell - Socioling: Gogonas

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Subject: 21.5192, Books: Anthropological Ling/Socioling: Mitchell - Socioling: Gogonas

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1)
Date: 07-Dec-2010
From: Chris Bryce [crbryce at c-s-p.org]
Subject: St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix: Mitchell
2)
Date: 07-Dec-2010
From: Chris Bryce [crbryce at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education: Gogonas

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:06:10
From: Chris Bryce [crbryce at c-s-p.org]
Subject: St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix: Mitchell

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Title: St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix 
Subtitle: A Study of Language Choice and Attitudes 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org

Author: Edward S. Mitchell

Hardback: ISBN: 1443821470 9781443821476 Pages: 501 Price: U.K. £ 54.99

Abstract:

This new work brings together both reviews and critiques of current
theories of creolization and provides new data from a sociolinguistic case
study of speakers of St. Lucian French-lexifier Creole (Kwéyòl) on the
island of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. St. Lucian Kwéyòl has its origins
in the 17th century after the French settled there in 1651 from Martinique
with their slaves. In the following years, thousands more African slaves
were imported. A rugged volcanic island with a roadless interior, St. Lucia
provided a haven for runaway slaves (nègres marrons or maroons) from other
islands. Buffeted by the forces of globalization and the continued impact
of English, Kwéyòl continues to be widely-spoken on St. Lucia today. The
crux of the book is the case study that examines Kwéyòl-speaking St.
Lucians as a minority community on St. Croix where Kwéyòl is but one of
numerous languages spoken, including Caribbean English, Crucian Creole,
several other Caribbean Creole languages, Spanish, and Arabic. The
collection of data and analytical attention are centered on questions of
language choice, language attitudes, ethnolinguistic identity, and
bilingualism. This book will be welcomed by students and researchers in
linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics and anthropology with a
special interest in Creole languages and linguistic minorities in
multilingual speech communities. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Saint Lucian Creole French (acf)

Written In: English  (eng)

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:06:24
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education: Gogonas

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Title: Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education 
Subtitle: Investigating Ethnic Language Maintenance among Pupils of Albanian and
Egyptian Origin in Athens

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org

Author: Nikos Gogonas

Hardback: ISBN: 1443821381 9781443821384 Pages: 260 Price: U.K. £ 39.99

Abstract:

Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education investigates the
factors affecting language maintenance/shift among second-generation
Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. Using a combined
quantitative and qualitative methodology, it explores the influence of
three sets of variables on language maintenance. These are a)
ethnolinguistic vitality, defined by the demography, status and
institutional support of each group in Greece, as well as migrant and Greek
pupils' perceptions regarding these factors; b) migrant parents' attitudes
to language maintenance and their role in language transmission in the
home; and c) the attitudes of teachers and the institutional approaches of
mainstream Greek education to linguistic and cultural diversity. Results
indicate that: knowledge of Greek is common among today's children of
Albanian and Egyptian immigrants and preference for that language is
dominant; bilingualism varies slightly between Albanian and Egyptian
second-generation pupils with Egyptians being more dominant in the parental
language, due to their higher degree of identification with their ethnic
group in comparison to the Albanian pupils; the school context plays a
significant role in the ability of second-generation youths to achieve and
maintain bilingual fluency. 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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