Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.
It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.
The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Synopsis
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology.
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Table of Contents
Ukrainian--reconstituting a language / Alexander Krouglov -- "Stubborn as a mule calls for a dialectical presentation" : on undoing and redoing corpus planning in Hungary / Miklâos Kontra -- Linguistic consequences of the Sandanista revolution and its aftermath in Nicaragua / John M. Lipski -- Undoing some effects of the Cultural Revolution : Chinese address forms / S.M. Lee-Wong -- The reconvergence of German after reunification and its limits / Michael Clyne -- The reconvergence of Vietnamese / Nguyen Xuan Thu -- Undoing a "unified language" : Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian / Radoslav Katiéciâc -- Reconvergence of Moldavian towards Romanian / Marcu Gabinschi -- The fate of Samnorsk : a social dialect experiment in language planning / Ernst Hêakon Jahr -- Diets, nederlands, nederduits, hollands, vlaams, belgisch-nederlands / Kas Deprez -- From Pilipino to Filipino-1 to Filipino-2 : unmaking and remaking a national language / Andrew Gonzalez -- The undoing of language planning from the vantage of cultural history : two twentieth century Yiddish examples / Rakhmiel Peltz -- The Turkish language reform forced into stagnation / Hendrik Boeschoten -- Influence of the Middle East peace process on the Hebrew language / Ran HaCohen -- The impact of the peace process in the Middle East on Arabic / Hassan R.S. Abd-el-Jawad and Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq -- Eradicating racism in language : Afrikaans / D.J. van Schalkwyk -- Epilogue / Michael Clyne.