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Author Migge, Bettina.

Title Exploring language in a multilingual context [electronic resource] : variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation / Bettina Migge, Isabelle Leglise.

Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description xi, 359 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The political, social and linguistic contexts of French Guiana; 3. The Maroons: historical and anthropological notes; 4. What's in the name Takitaki? Investigating linguistic ideologies; 5. The social profiles of some Takitaki speakers: the data for this study; 6. Towards the linguistic structure of Takitaki: an analysis of Takitaki; 7. Communicating in Takitaki: Maroons and non-Maroons in interaction; 8. Linguistic practices among urban Maroons; 9. On Takitaki and its insights.
Summary "Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties called Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in order to systematically resolve rarely discussed questions that frequently crop up in projects of language documentation in multilingual contexts. The authors argue that comprehensively documenting complex linguistic phenomena requires taking into account the views of all local social actors (native and non-native speakers, institutions, linguists, non-speakers etc.), applying a range of complementary data collection and analysis methods and putting issues of ideology, variation, language contact and interaction centre stage. This book will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, linguistic fieldwork and language variation and change"-- Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Sranan language -- Grammar, Historical.
Sranan language -- French Guiana.
French Guiana -- Languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Leglise, Isabelle.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780521195553 (hardback)
9781139781725 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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