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The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

Sociolinguistics. --- Sociolinguïstiek. --- Sociolinguistics --- Sociolinguistique --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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800:316 --- Sociolinguistiek --- 800:316 Sociolinguistiek --- Sociolinguistics --- South Africa --- Languages.

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This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. As the authors demonstrate, the South African context offers a treasure trove of data and examples for linguistic and sociolinguistic study. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties, leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization and new mixed varieties; language and public policy issues associated with the transition to a post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages. It details the history of indigenous languages, the impact of European languages upon them, and of transformations to the European languages themselves. Written by a team of leading researchers, all the chapters are informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding questions of language. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in language and linguistics, sociology, anthropology and social history.

Sociolinguistics --- Language and culture --- Language policy --- Language planning --- Language and languages --- Planned language change --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Planning --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- South Africa --- Languages. --- #KVHA:Diachronie; Engels --- #KVHA:Taal; Zuid-Afrika --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Communication policy

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Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and linguistic consequences of, language shift in an immigrant context, he draws significant parallels between second language acquisition and the processes of pidginization and creolization. In particular, he analyses universals of second language acquisition and the role of transfer from the Indic and Dravidian substrate languages. English in Language Shift observes the acquisition of language in its social setting, often outside the classroom. Its linguistic focus is on the distinctive syntax of South African Indian English, with respect to word order and clause structures; and it contains descriptions of lexis, phonetics and morphology, in terms of social variation. South African Indian English is compared with other dialects within South Africa, with English in India, and with Englishes generally.

Dialectology --- Sociolinguistics --- English language --- South Africa --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- East Indians --- Languages in contact --- Areal linguistics --- Germanic languages --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Languages. --- Social aspects --- Variation --- History.

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