LINGUIST List 14.616

Mon Mar 3 2003

Books: Sociolinguistics: Clyne

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Dynamics of Language Context: Clyne

			
Title: Dynamics of Language Context
Subtitle: English and Immigrant Languages
Series Title: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
			
Publication Year: 2003
			
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
 http://www.cup.org		 
			
Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/linguistics
			
 
Author: Michael Clyne, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 0521781361, Pages: 294, Price: $65.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521786487, Pages: 294, Price: $24.00

			
Abstract:

Written by an expert in the field, this study examines the dynamics of
contact between languages in an immigrant context. Michael Clyne
discusses the dynamics of contact with English using data from a wide
range of languages, including German, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian,
Spanish, Croatian and Vietnamese. Clyne analyzes how and why these
languages change in a country with many immigrants such as Australia,
as well as why some languages survive longer than others.

Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Dynamics of Language Shift; 3. On Models and Terms; 
4. Dynamics of Convergence and Transference; 5. Dynamics of Transversion; 
6. Dynamics of Plurilingual Processing; 7. Dynamics of Cultural Values; 
8. Towards a Synthesis

Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics
			 
Subject Language(s): Dutch (Language code: DUT), 
German, Standard (Language code: GER>,
Hungarian (Language code: HNG), 
Italian (Language code: ITN),
Serbo-croatian (Language code: SRC),
Spanish (Language code: SPN),
Vietnamese (Language code: VIE)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)