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Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics. The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.

Languages in contact. --- Postcolonialism. --- Historical linguistics. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Areal linguistics --- History --- Grammar. --- Language Contact. --- Postcolonial Language Ideologies.

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Historical sociolinguistics has now established itself as a separate independent field of linguistic inquiry, and the impact of its theoretical and empirical advances are reflected in a thriving body of publications of various types. This volume adds to this flourishing array by presenting nine original studies by highly accomplished scholars holding a prominent reputation in the field. The overarching objective of the volume is to call attention to contemporary trends and innovative developments in the discipline and, more generally, to highlight current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations of language variation and change, and corpus-based studies. The overall interdisciplinary nature of the contributions, the variety of languages they examine and the range of themes they address are distinguishing features of the book, which also make it appealing to a wider readership. The general themes covered by the volume include how to define the historical and social dimensions in historical sociolinguistics research, historical second-language use and multilingualism, the role and relevance played by linguistic ideologies and attitudes in language choices, usage, policy (standardization and preservation), and language death. More specific topics addressed are the linguistic strategies employed to convey and defend religious ideology or to heighten the overall persuasiveness of the information provided. Controversial and/or under-researched issues are tackled, such as authorship and gender in the study of private documents, the regularization and standardization of English orthography, and the issue of speakers' awareness of the dissociation between spoken and written language. In addition, several contributions are methodologically linked by employing data from epistolary correspondence.

Historical linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Historical linguistics. --- Philology. Linguistics. --- Historical sociolinguistics, history of English, discourse analysis, language ideologies, dialect death, standardisation, diaglossia, orthography. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History --- Philology.

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This book brings the voices of teachers into the fierce debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the similar cultural tensions in programs for immigrants. The author explores the development of teacher identity in these two very different contexts, and through the narratives of both experienced and novice teachers demonstrates how teacher identity affects the cultural pedagogies enacted in their classrooms.

English language --- EFL (Language study) --- English as a foreign language --- English as a second language --- English to speakers of other languages --- ESL (Language study) --- ESOL (Language study) --- Teaching English as a second language --- TEFL (Language study) --- TESL (Language study) --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- Foreign speakers. --- Foreign students --- Bakhtin. --- EFL. --- ESL. --- English language teaching. --- cultural pedagogy. --- language ideologies. --- teacher identity.

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This study analyses, in a sociolinguistic approach, the speeches on the language of the Jura autonomist movement during the twenty hottest years of the struggle for the creation of the 23rd Swiss canton. It explores the hypothesis that the language ideologies present in this discourse participated in the construction of the identity of the separatist Jurassians as a French-speaking linguistic minority endangered under the tutelage of the canton of Bern with a German-speaking majority. A varied corpus has been analysed, consisting mainly of the autonomist weekly Le Jura Libre, of the publications of the Rassemblement jurassien (RJ) and of its members and of archival documents. The Jura case shows once again that language ideologies are not so much about language as about society, classifying French speakers and bilinguals, creating an impermeable symbolic border between Bernese and Jurassians. Sharing these ideologies with other minorities, the RJ amplifies very traditional received ideas on bilingualism, the excellence of French, Germanization or linguistic determinism that it reinterprets and directs in a direction allowing it to make French a symbolic weapon. This linguistic position is pushed to its climax until it becomes a real posture of political combat in the context of the Jura Question. Germanization or linguistic determinism that he reinterprets and directs in a direction allowing him to make French a symbolic weapon. This linguistic position is pushed to its climax until it becomes a real posture of political combat in the context of the Jura Question. Germanization or linguistic determinism that he reinterprets and directs in a direction allowing him to make French a symbolic weapon. This linguistic position is pushed to its climax until it becomes a real posture of political combat in the context of the Jura Question.

French language --- Language policy --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Government policy --- Francès --- Alemany --- Política lingüística --- Estat i llengua --- Llengua i estat --- Llenguatge i llengües --- Llengües --- Normalització lingüística --- Planificació lingüística --- Política de la comunicació --- Sociolingüística --- Llengües germàniques --- Llengües romàniques --- Política governamental --- Aspectes polítics --- idéologies langagières --- sociolinguistique historique --- bilingualism --- langue française --- jura (swiss) --- language ideologies --- historical sociolinguistics --- french language --- linguistic minority --- bilinguisme --- minorité linguistique --- germanisation --- jura (suisse)