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About this book
"This remains the fundamental base for studies of multilingual communities and language shift. Weinreich laid out the concepts, principles and issues that govern empirical work in this field, and it has not been replaced by any later general treatment."
Prof. Dr. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Linguistics
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1Table of contents
- Preface, by ANDRÉ MARTINET
- Acknowledgments
- Transcription Note
- 1. THE PROBLEM OF APPROACH
- 1.1 Contact and Interference
- 1.2 Difference Between Languages
- 1.3 Psychological and Socio-Cultural Setting of Language Contact
- 1.4 Language Contact and Culture Contact
- 2. MECHANISMS AND STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF INTERFERENCE
- 2.1 Theoretical Preliminaries
- 2.2 Phonic Interference
- 2.3 Grammatical Interference
- 2.4 Lexical Interference
- 2.5 Total Amount of Interference
- 3. THE BILINGUAL INDIVIDUAL
- 3.1 Psychological Theories of Bilingualism
- 3.2 Characteristics of the Bilingual Speaker
- 3.3 Relative Status of Languages
- 4. THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SETTING OF LANGUAGE CONTACT
- 4.1 The Role of the Socio-Cultural Setting
- 4.2 Language Functions in Bilingual Communities
- 4.3 Congruence of Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Divisions
- 4.4 The Standardized Language as a Symbol
- 4.5 Duration of Contact
- 4.6 Crystallization of New Languages
- 4.7 Language Shifts
- 5. RESEARCH METHODS AND OPPORTUNITIES
- 5.1 Need for a Broad Approach
- 5.2 Multiple Contacts as a Favorable Field of Study
- APPENDIX: EFFECTS OF BILINGUALISM ON THE INDIVIDUAL
- 1. Intelligence
- 2. Group Identification
- 3. Character Formation
- 4. Educational Problems
- Bibliography
- Index to the Bibliography