Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery (Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism)

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The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such processes. The focus is on social actors rather than language as a means for analysing the complexity and tensions inherent in contemporary standardization processes. By considering the perspectives and actions of people who participate in or are affected by minority language politics, the contributors aim to provide a comparative and nuanced analysis of the complexity and tensions inherent in minority language standardisation processes. Echoing Fasold (1984), this involves a shift in focus from a sociolinguistics of language to a sociolinguistics of people. The book addresses tensions that are born of the renewed or continued need to standardize ‘language’ in the early 21st century across the world. It proposes to go beyond the traditional macro/micro dichotomy by foregrounding the role of actors as they position themselves as users of standard forms of language, oral or written, across sociolinguistic scales. Language policy processes can be seen as practices and ideologies in action and this volume therefore investigates how social actors in a wide range of geographical settings embrace, contribute to, resist and also reject (aspects of) minority language standardization.
Copyright:
2017

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
250 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317298861
Related ISBNs:
9781315647722, 9780367594398, 9781138125124
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Language Arts, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Pia Lane
Edited by:
James Costa
Edited by:
Haley De Korne

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