Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context
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Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context

Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation

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Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context

Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation

About this book

Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in order to resolve rarely discussed questions systematically (what are the outlines of the community, who is a rightful speaker, what speech should be documented) that frequently crop up in projects of language documentation in multilingual contexts. The authors argue that comprehensively documenting complex linguistic phenomena requires taking into account the views of all local social actors (native and non-native speakers, institutions, linguists, non-speakers, etc.), applying a range of complementary data collection and analysis methods and putting issues of ideology, variation, language contact and interaction centre stage. This book will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, fieldwork studies, language documentation and language variation and change.

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Yes, you can access Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context by Bettina Migge,Isabelle Léglise in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Maps
  8. Tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 The political, social and linguistic contexts of French Guiana
  12. 3 The Maroons: historical and anthropological notes
  13. 4 What’s in the name Takitaki? Investigating linguistic ideologies
  14. 5 The social pro.les of some Takitaki speakers: the data for this study
  15. 6 Towards the linguistic structure of Takitaki: an analysis of Takitaki practices
  16. 7 Communicating in Takitaki: Maroons and non-Maroons in interaction
  17. 8 Linguistic practices among urban Maroons
  18. 9 OnTakitaki and its insights
  19. References
  20. Index of subjects, languages and locations