LINGUIST List 21.5163 Sun Dec 19 2010 Books: Sociolinguistics: Wilson Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Thomas Trumm , Moravians in Prague: Wilson Message 1: Moravians in Prague: Wilson Date: 16-Dec-2010 From: Thomas Trumm <t.trummpeterlang.com> Subject: Moravians in Prague: Wilson E-mail this message to a friend Title: Moravians in Prague Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic Study of Dialect Contact in the Czech Republic Series Title: Prague Papers on Language, Society and Interaction / Prager Arbeiten zur Sprache, Gesellschaft und Interaktion Published: 2010 Publisher: Peter Lang AG                 http://www.peterlang.com Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?58694 Author: James Wilson Hardback: ISBN: 9783631586945 Pages: 292 Price: U.S. $ 76.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783631586945 Pages: 292 Price: U.K. £ 44.40 Hardback: ISBN: 9783631586945 Pages: 292 Price: Europe EURO 52.80 Abstract: This book provides the first systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian migrants in Bohemia. By analyzing the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from different parts of Moravia living at a hall of residence in Prague, the author investigates part of an unsubstantiated and ideologically motivated dialect contact hypothesis according to which in informal, everyday communication Moravians in Bohemia accommodate not in the direction of the standard dialect but to Common Czech, a non-standard interdialect that is spoken throughout Bohemia. The study combines a quantitative analysis of six linguistic variables with an ethnographic study of informants linguistic and social behaviour. A primary objective of the study is to identify the impact of various social criteria on informants acquisition of Common Czech forms. Contents: Dialect contact - Accommodation theory - Standard Czech - Common Czech - Moravian dialects and interdialects - The variationist paradigm - Linguistic variables - Independent variables - Social network analysis - Participant observation - Statistical analysis The Author: James Wilson is Teaching Fellow in Russian at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Sheffield. His research interests include language variation in Czech, dialect contact and second-dialect acquisition. Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Czech (ces) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52188 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 19-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.