Sociolinguistics from the Periphery
This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of inter...
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Book |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
Cambridge University Press
2016
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316403617 |
id |
crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781316403617 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781316403617 2024-05-12T08:10:37+00:00 Sociolinguistics from the Periphery Small Languages in New Circumstances Pietikäinen, Sari Jaffe, Alexandra Kelly-Holmes, Helen Coupland, Nikolas 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316403617 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781316403617 9781107561007 9781107123885 monograph 2016 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316403617 2024-04-18T06:54:06Z This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction that peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of peripheral resources, and boundary-transgression with humour, all carry forward change. These types of change articulate a blurring of binary oppositions between centre and periphery, old and new, and standard and non-standard. Such research is particularly urgent in multilingual small language contexts, where different conceptualisations of language(s), boundaries, and speakers impact on individuals' social, cultural, and economic capital, and opportunities. Book Sámi Cambridge University Press |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Cambridge University Press |
op_collection_id |
crcambridgeupr |
language |
unknown |
description |
This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction that peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of peripheral resources, and boundary-transgression with humour, all carry forward change. These types of change articulate a blurring of binary oppositions between centre and periphery, old and new, and standard and non-standard. Such research is particularly urgent in multilingual small language contexts, where different conceptualisations of language(s), boundaries, and speakers impact on individuals' social, cultural, and economic capital, and opportunities. |
format |
Book |
author |
Pietikäinen, Sari Jaffe, Alexandra Kelly-Holmes, Helen Coupland, Nikolas |
spellingShingle |
Pietikäinen, Sari Jaffe, Alexandra Kelly-Holmes, Helen Coupland, Nikolas Sociolinguistics from the Periphery |
author_facet |
Pietikäinen, Sari Jaffe, Alexandra Kelly-Holmes, Helen Coupland, Nikolas |
author_sort |
Pietikäinen, Sari |
title |
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery |
title_short |
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery |
title_full |
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery |
title_fullStr |
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery |
title_full_unstemmed |
Sociolinguistics from the Periphery |
title_sort |
sociolinguistics from the periphery |
publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
publishDate |
2016 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316403617 |
genre |
Sámi |
genre_facet |
Sámi |
op_source |
ISBN 9781316403617 9781107561007 9781107123885 |
op_rights |
https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316403617 |
_version_ |
1798854098528763904 |