Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact: Methods and Cases

✍ Scribed by William Mackey (editor); Jacob Ornstein (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 6
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
PART I. METHODS
I Guidelines:
1. Guidelines for the Study of Intercultural Relations
II Demography:
2. Language Minorities in a World of Communications
3. Constructing Language Profiles by Polity
4. Language Attitudes: Behavior and Intervening Variables
5. Geocoding Language Loss from Census Data
III Models:
6. Models of Competence in Bilingual Interaction
PART II. CASES
IV Language and Ethnicity:
7. Language and Ethnic Identity: Language Policy and Debate in Greenland
8. Language, Communication and Ethnicity in British Honduras
9. Evaluational Reactions to Foreign Accent among Immigrants in Toronto
10. Language Attitudes and Minority Status
V Language Maintenance:
11. Language Maintenance and Code Switching among Filipino Bilingual Speakers
12. Welsh Bilingualism: Four Documents
VI Language Behavior:
13. Spanish-English Bilingualism in the American Southwest
14. A Sociolinguistic Consideration of English Spoken in Grenada, British West Indies
15. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Word-Borrowing
VII Diglossia:
16. Stable Societal Diglossia in Norfolk Island
17. A Diglossic Situation: Standard vs Dialect
VIII Language Competence:
18. Societal and Linguistic Correlates in an Investigation of the English Writing of a Selected Group of University Level Chicanos Betty Lou Dubois
19. Language Contact in Japan
IX Language and Education:
20. Multilingualism in Nigerian Education
21. Socio-Educational Correlates of Mexican-American Bilingualism
X Language and Community:
22. Bilingualism in a Swiss Canton: Language Choice in Ticino
23. A Voluntary Non-Ethnic and Non-Territorial Speech Community
XI Conclusion: Problems in Theory and Method:
24. Toward an Ecology of Language Contact