26.1102, Books: Language Empires in Comparative Perspective: Stolz (ed.)

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:41:37
From: Linda Steglich [linda.steglich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Language Empires in Comparative Perspective: Stolz (ed.)

 


Title: Language Empires in Comparative Perspective 
Series Title: De Gruyter Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) 6  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/449348?format=G 


Editor: Christel Stolz

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110408478 Pages: 392 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110408188 Pages: 392 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of
dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate
concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field
of linguistics, specifically to research on situations of language spread on
the one hand and concomitant marginalization of minority languages on the
other. The authors who contributed to this volume concur as to the
applicability of the notion of empire to language-related issues. They address
the processes, potential merits and drawbacks of language spread as well as
the marginalization of minority languages, language endangerment and
revitalization, contact-induced language change, the emergence of mixed
languages, and identity issues. An emphasis is on the dominance of non-Western
languages such as Arabic, Chinese, and, particularly, Russian. The studies
demonstrate that the emergence, spread and decline of language empires is a
promising area of research, particularly from a comparative perspective.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Russian (rus)


Written In: English  (eng)

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