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Sociolinguistics / Cognitive linguistics Textbook
Languages in Contact
Endangered Languages
Lisa Lim
An Introduction Sarah G. Thomason
and Umberto Ansaldo
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
An introduction to the topic of language endangerment, answering questions such as: what is it? How and why does it happen? Wy should we care? The book outlines the causes of language endangerment, explaining what makes a language ‘safe’, and highlighting the danger signs that threaten a minority language. ‘This is a superb one-volume, singleauthor introduction to endangered languages. Full coverage, [an] accessible style, and illuminating examples will make this volume invaluable to novice fieldworkers and wonderfully resonant to veterans.’ Nancy C. Dorian, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Why and how languages become endangered; 3. Sliding into dormancy: social processes and linguistic effects; 4. What a community loses: language loss as cultural loss; 5. What science loses: language loss as a threat to our understanding of human history, human cognition, and the natural world; 6. Field research on endangered languages; 7. Language preservation and revitalization. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
2015 247 x 174 mm 242pp 1 map 978-0-521-86573-9 Hardback £55.00 / US$90.00 978-0-521-68453-8 Paperback £19.99 / US$34.99 For all formats available, see
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Language Maintenance and Shift Anne Pauwels School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
This comprehensive discussion examines the development of this important sub-field of multilingualism from the 1970s to the present. Anne Pauwels documents the many efforts families and communities engage in to maintain their heritage or minority language, offering a critical review of the key disciplinary approaches and theoretical frameworks. Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
2016 216 x 138 mm 180pp 1 b/w illus. 6 tables 978-1-107-04369-5 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$99.00 978-1-107-61892-3 Paperback c. £19.99 / c. US$29.99 Publication June 2016 For all formats available, see
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The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong
Introducing new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together findings on multilingualism, codeswitching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. ‘Well-informed, timely, and unique in its focus on a wide variety of language contacts in an ever more globalized Asia.’ Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
2015 216 x 138 mm 251pp 2 b/w illus. 8 tables 978-0-521-76795-8 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 978-0-521-14925-9 Paperback £21.99 / US$34.99 For all formats available, see
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Multilingualism Anat Stavans Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Beit Berl College
and Charlotte Hoffmann University of Salford
Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors.
repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational ‘melodies’. ‘[This book] challenges serious scholars of language and social interaction with a rich, new and exquisitely contextual account of the work people do through their responses in real-time social interaction. Findings presented in the book are fully data-driven and compel us to critically re-envision the traditionally taken-for-granted notions that some utterances are ‘elliptical’ or ‘non-sentential’. [The authors] demonstrate that response formats are artfully and precisely fitted to their contexts, and that the attested composition of utterances results from the limited range of meaning-making potentials opened up in the course of developing sequences of action. The presentation of findings, representing a new standard of methodological and theoretical integrity, is tightly articulated with forty years of research on language form and interactional sequence. Future research on sequence organization and action formats must take this book as a fundamental reference point, including the cross-linguistic expansion of this project, which the authors enthusiastically invite.’ Cecilia E. Ford, University of Wisconsin, Madison Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 31
2015 228 x 152 mm 356pp 40 b/w illus. 45 tables 978-1-107-03102-9 Hardback £69.99 / US$110.00 For all formats available, see
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Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
2015 216 x 138 mm 319pp 19 b/w illus. 4 maps 6 tables 978-1-107-09299-0 Hardback £59.99 / US$99.99 978-1-107-47148-1 Paperback £19.99 / US$34.99 For all formats available, see
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Grammar in Everyday Talk Building Responsive Actions Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara
Barbara A. Fox University of Colorado Boulder
and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen University of Helsinki
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. Speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter,
Cognitive linguistics Highlight
The Crucible of Language How Language and Mind Create Meaning Vyvyan Evans Bangor University
In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know and do when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to convey the