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Subject(s)

• Sociolinguistics [Browse]
• Linguistic change—Social aspects [Browse]
• Language and languages—Variation [Browse]
• Language and languages—Political aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Ammon, Ulrich [Browse]
• Hellinger, Marlis [Browse]

Series

• Foundations of communication and cognition. [More in this series]
• Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition

Notes

• Papers in English, French, and German.
• Papers contributed to the sociolinguistic section of the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, held in Göttingen, FRG, Oct. 5-7, 1989.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• I. National or Official Languages
• Linguistic Legislation and Prestige Shift / Willemyns, Roland
• The Role of Pressure Groups in the Change of the Status of French in Québec since 1960 / Labrie, Normand
• Changes in the Status and Function of Quechua / Gleich, Utta von
• Status Types and Status Changes in the Arabic Language / Glass, Dagmar / Reuschel, Wolfgang
• Status Change of Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa / Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine
• Socioeconomic Transitions and Language Status Change: The Case of Luxembourg / Davis, Kathryn A.
• Language Status Shift in the United States: A European Perspective / Bister-Broosen, Helga / Willemyns, Roland
• Hindi Language Planning: A Case Study of Status Change / Dua, Hans R.
• In Search of Status: Bahasa Malaysia for National Unification / Jacobson, Rodolfo
• II. Nonstandard or Standardizing Languages
• The Status of Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Predicament / Romaine, Suzanne
• The Changing Status of Melanesian Pidgin English / Mühlhäusler, Peter
• Function and Status Change of Pidgin and Creole Languages / Hellinger, Marlis
• III. Non-Official or Minority Languages
• Three Dilemmas of Organized Efforts to Reverse Language Shift / Fishman, Joshua A.
• The Changing Status of U. S. Spanish: de Facto Second Language? / Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L.
• The Status of a Minority Language in India: A Case Study of Maithili / Boopathy, S.
• Status and Function Changes of Dutch as an Immigrant Language in Australia / Pauwels, Anne
• Problems of Status and Status Change of Yiddish / Biehl, Jürgen
• The Changing Status of English in Switzerland / Dürmüller, Urs
• Evolution et Statut des Variantes Standard et Dialectales de l'Allemand en Alsace / Hartweg, Frédéric
• IV. Varieties of German
• The Status of German as a Language of Science and the Importance of the English Language for German-Speaking Scientists / Skudlik, Sabine
• Recent Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Chemistry / Michels, Stefan
• On the Status and Changes in the Status of German as a Language of Diplomacy / Ammon, Ulrich
• Phases of Language Maintenance and Shift: On the Status of Michigan Franconian / Born, Renate
• Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Status Change: The Case of the Old Order Amish and Related Groups / Raith, Joachim
• V. Special Topics
• Assessing Language Status: Some Problems / Aitchison, Jean
• Der Weg von einem Sprachprojekt zu einer lebenden Welthilfssprache. Einige Aspekte des Statuswandels, dargestellt am Beispiel des Esperanto / Sakaguchi, Alicja
• Deference, Politeness and the Status of Language - A Study in the Variability and Changeability of a Crucial Relationship / Haarmann, Harald
• Sachregister
• Backmatter

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ISBN

3-11-085162-8

OCLC

• 1013967428
• 853268440
• 922948234

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110851625

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