Language and ethnicity
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Language and ethnicity
(Key topics in sociolinguistics)
Cambridge University Press, 2006
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 40 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-242) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What is ethnicity? Is there a 'white' way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't there? This lively overview, first published in 2006, reveals the fascinating relationship between language and ethnic identity, exploring the crucial role it plays in both revealing a speaker's ethnicity and helping to construct it. Drawing on research from a range of ethnic groups around the world, it shows how language contributes to the social and psychological processes involved in the formation of ethnic identity, exploring both the linguistic features of ethnic language varieties and also the ways in which language is used by different ethnic groups. Complete with discussion questions and a glossary, Language and Ethnicity will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, as well as anybody interested in ethnic issues, language and education, inter-ethnic communication, and the relationship between language and identity.
Table of Contents
- Part I. General Issues in Ethnicity and Language: 1. What is ethnicity?
- 2. Language and the construction of ethnic identity
- Part II. Linguistic Features and Ethnicity in Specific Groups: 3. African-American groups
- 4. Latino groups
- 5. Linguistic variation in other multiethnic settings
- 6. Are white people ethnic? Whiteness, dominance, and ethnicity
- 7. Dialect contact, ethnicity and language change
- Part III. The Role of Language Use in Ethnicity: 8. Discourse features, pragmatics and ethnicity
- 9. Interethnic communication and language prejudice
- 10. Crossing: may I borrow your ethnicity?
- Discussion questions
- Glossary.
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