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The Social Life of Language / Gillian Sankoff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1980Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812277715
  • 9781512809589
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.9
LOC classification:
  • P35
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea -- 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches -- 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence -- 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules -- 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea -- 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries -- 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities -- 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa -- 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model -- Introduction -- 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language -- 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives -- 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin -- 13. Anything You Can Do -- 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French -- 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French -- Bibliography -- Indexes
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512809589

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Introduction -- 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea -- 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches -- 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence -- 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules -- 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea -- 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries -- 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities -- 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa -- 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model -- Introduction -- 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language -- 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives -- 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin -- 13. Anything You Can Do -- 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French -- 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French -- Bibliography -- Indexes

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In English.

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