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Family Language Transmission
This book examines the whys and wherefores of family language transmission from the perspective of parents as language planners and managers of their linguistic resources. It draws on a qualitative, interview-based study of twenty families in which German is, was, or could have been the target language. Successive census analyses have charted a marked decline in the number of German speakers in Australia, indicating that motivation for transmitting German has waned. The situations where it is presently being transmitted are therefore particularly interesting. Data analysis was facilitated by a decision map depicting the planning, implementation and outcome phases of the transmission undertaking. The main findings show that the parents' decision is negotiated around their own needs, interests and ambitions in terms of child-focussed, reciprocal and parent-centred motives. These, in turn, are linked to transmission strategies and the linguistic outcomes for the children. Through an understanding of the motivational issues arising in this context, it will hopefully be possible to better predict the effectiveness of the transmission strategies presently applied.
Grammar Between Norm and Variation
The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, they reflect the current discussion of the topic. Focusing on the object languages German and English ensures a high level of topical consistency. On the other hand, the four large topic areas (emergence and change of norms and grammatical constructions; relationship of codes of norms and 'real' language usage; competition of standard and non-standard language norms; and subsistent norms of minority languages and «institutionalised second-language varieties») cover a large range of relevant issues, thereby certainly giving an impetus to new and further investigations.
Shared Languages, Shared Identities, Shared Stories
This book explores how 15 immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia make sense of their migratory experience, of building a new life in a different language. It does so by examining their written and oral life stories. The analysis takes two complementary perspectives: Firstly, the construction of language identities is studied through the language practices and attitudes discussed and displayed by the participants. Secondly, the ways in which they create coherence in their life stories focuses on autobiographical identities where language is a medium of sense-making across their life course. The combined perspectives highlight the diversity among the participants and the complexities of language and identity construction in the context of migration.
Diversity and Changing Values in Address
Different national varieties of Spanish, for instance Argentinian, Colombian and Mexican, use different address systems, with different numbers of pronouns, and also give pronouns a different social significance. For the first time, this study discusses and analyses these paradigms in the context of inter-varietal contact in a third country, with English as an additional contact language. A multiplicity of data collection methods made it possible to uncover many new insights into address behaviour. New definitions for address pronouns are proposed, and issues arising from address are discussed, such as: awareness, proficiency, avoidance, accommodation, and uncertainty. In addition, some unexpected practices emerged, which call into question all previously accepted norms of usage.
Making a Difference
The rapid worldwide growth in migration, asylum seekers and refugees and reactions to this, the expansion of media and technology, political and economic changes at international and local levels are both challenges and opportunities for research in applied linguistics. This book presents 23 articles by key researchers exploring the ways in which applied linguistics can play a role making a difference in people’s lives. It is a timely publication when access to powerful discourses is increasingly an issue for many of the world’s populations. The book showcases the contribution of applied linguists working in such areas as language teaching and learning, policy development, discourse anal...
Parler scout en réunion
Ce travail résulte d'une recherche de terrain : pendant deux ans, l'auteur a suivi une patrouille de scouts en participant à leurs activités, notamment aux réunions de patrouille qu'elle a enregistrées et transcrites. C'est sur ce corpus que s'appuient les analyses linguistiques. Le but général de cette recherche consiste à décrire le style communicatif du groupe tel qu'il s'exprime au cours des réunions scoutes. Cette approche, qui montre l'interdépendance entre la réalité sociale et les façons d'interagir, exige une analyse linguistique intégrale qui tienne compte de tous les phénomènes langagiers. Trois aspects principaux guident l'analyse. Premièrement, l'étude montre comment les garçons expriment leur identité de groupe et comment l'influence du mouvement scout laisse des traces dans leur parler. Deuxièmement, l'analyse met en évidence les activités discursives propres au type d'interaction. Troisièmement, la question du style communicatif est approfondie à travers l'analyse de quatre profils interactionnels. Le travail se termine par un bilan sur le style en proposant un portrait sociolinguistique du parler scout.
Varietà dialettali microareali della Costiera Amalfitana
Questo volume, frutto di un lavoro di dottorato che si colloca a metà strada tra la sociolinguistica e la dialettologia, prende in esame delle varietà, quelle presenti in Costiera Amalfitana, che non sono mai state oggetto di specifici studi dialettologici. Ne risulta un quadro estremamente dinamico ed interessante dal punto di vista linguistico. Lo studio è stato condotto tentando di mettere in evidenza le peculiarità della varietà amalfitana e di rintracciare le ragioni di uno sviluppo autonomo di tale varietà, nella particolare storia di Amalfi medioevale. É stato inoltre dato particolare risalto alle dinamiche linguistiche derivanti da un fenomeno più recente, quello del contatto tra la varietà amalfitana e le varietà che giungono dall'esterno, soprattutto la napoletana.
