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Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties / ed. by Ulrich Ammon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and CognitionPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (665 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110112993
  • 9783110860252
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter I: General Description and Typological Schemes -- Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies -- Towards a Descriptive Framework For the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language Within a Country -- Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions -- Functional Types of Language in India -- Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach -- Chapter II: Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties -- A Normtheoretical Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language -- Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia -- Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch -- Über den Begriff Dachsprache -- Quelques remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss -- Regressed or “Downgraded Varieties” of Language: A First Approximation -- Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms -- Chapter III: Official, National and International Languages -- Pluricentricity: National Variety -- Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis -- ‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala -- Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages -- Chapter IV: Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights -- Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology -- ‘Mother Tongue’: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept -- Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society -- Chapter V: Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties -- 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants -- The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept -- On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires -- On Language Mixtures -- Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity -- Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity -- The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant? -- Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language”: Dialect, Register, and/or Code? -- Subject Index -- 670
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter I: General Description and Typological Schemes -- Determining the Status and Function of Languages in Multinational Societies -- Towards a Descriptive Framework For the Status/Function (Social Position) of a Language Within a Country -- Naturalism and the Search for a Theory of Language Types and Functions -- Functional Types of Language in India -- Functional Aspects of Language Varieties – A Theoretical-Methodological Approach -- Chapter II: Written, Standard and Cultivated Languages or Varieties -- A Normtheoretical Approach to Functional and Status Types of Language -- Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia -- Popular and Scientific Beliefs about Language Status: An Historical Sketch -- Über den Begriff Dachsprache -- Quelques remarques relatives aux concepts Abstand et Ausbau de Heinz Kloss -- Regressed or “Downgraded Varieties” of Language: A First Approximation -- Standard English Spoken Here: The Geographical Loci of Linguistic Norms -- Chapter III: Official, National and International Languages -- Pluricentricity: National Variety -- Lingua Minor, Franca & Nationalis -- ‘Official Language’: the Case of Lingala -- Towards a Clarification of the Function and Status of International Planned Languages -- Chapter IV: Evaluation of Languages and Language Rights -- Towards a Value-Free Language Use Terminology -- ‘Mother Tongue’: the Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept -- Types of Language Activation and Evaluation in an Ethnically Plural Society -- Chapter V: Functional Variation within Languages or Varieties -- 20 Postulates for a General Theory of Linguistic Variants -- The Language Continuum as a Pluridimensional Concept -- On the Typology of Linguistic Repertoires -- On Language Mixtures -- Acrolect and Hyperlect: Education and Class as Foci of Linguistic Identity -- Diglossia and Functional Heterogeneity -- The Status of Pitcairn-Norfolk: Creole, Dialect, or Cant? -- Gooniyandi Mother-in-Law “Language”: Dialect, Register, and/or Code? -- Subject Index -- 670

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