Date: 09-May-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages: Stanford, Preston (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 25
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: James N. Stanford
Editor: Dennis R. Preston
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289780 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289780 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027218643 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027218643 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
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