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The Nordic Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1194

The Nordic Languages

Annotation This handbook is conceived as a comprehensive history of the North Germanic languages from the oldest times up to the present day. Whereas most of the traditional presentations of Nordic language history are confined to individual languages and often concentrate on purely linguistic data, the present work covers the history of all Nordic languages in its totality, embedded in a broad culture-historical context. The Nordic languages are described both individually and in their mutual dependence as well as in relation to the neighboring non-Nordic languages. The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology, but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompa...

Elites, Language, and the Politics of Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Elites, Language, and the Politics of Identity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-03-27
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Uses Norway to test the claim that elites are central to the politicization of linguistic conflict.

The Nordic Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1086

The Nordic Languages

The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. Moreover it combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects, longitudinal sections with cross-sections (periods such as Old Norse, transition from Old Norse to Early Modern Nordic, Early Modern Nordic 1550-1800 and so on). The description of Nordic language history is built upon a comprehensive collection of linguistic data; it consists of more than 200 articles written by a multitude of authors from Scandinavian and German and English speaking countries. The organization of the book combines a central part on the detailed chronological developments and some chapters of a more general character: chapters on theory and methodology in the beginning and on overlapping spatio-temporal topics in the end.

Útnorður
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Útnorður

The focus of this book is on the West Nordic linguistic area: Norway, the Faroes and Iceland, at different stages in their history. In the Middle Ages these countries were the home of the Old Norse literary language in which the Icelandic sagas were written, and for a while Greenland and the Scottish Isles were included in the domain. This cultural union collapsed around 1400. Scholars from Iceland, the Faroes, Sweden, Norway, Germany and England discussed standardization and variation from a general perspective and described in some detail aspects of the linguistic situation in the West Nordic area, from the Viking age to the present time.

In Praise of the Beloved Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

In Praise of the Beloved Language

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.

Creating Postwar Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Creating Postwar Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-07-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Creating Postwar Canada showcases new research on this complex period, exploring postwar Canada's diverse symbols and battlegrounds. Contributors to the first half of the collection consider evolving definitions of the nation, examining the ways in which Canada was reimagined to include both the Canadian North and landscapes structured by trade and commerce. The essays in the latter half analyze debates on shopping hours, professional striptease, the "provider" role of fathers, interracial adoption, sexuality on campus, and illegal drug use, issues that shaped how the country defined itself in sociocultural and political terms. This collection contributes to the historiography of nationalism, gender and the family, consumer cultures, and countercultures.

Language Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Language Management

This book was the first book to present a specific theory of language management.

Pacific Linguistics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

Pacific Linguistics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Language Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Language Policy

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The Northern Utopia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

The Northern Utopia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

In the 19th century, the ancient filial tie' between Britain and Norway was rediscovered by a booming tourist industry which took thousands across the North Sea to see the wonders of the fjords, the fjelds, and the beauties of the North Cape. This illustrated volume, for the first time, collects together vivid impressions of the country recorded by nearly 200 British travellers and other commentators, incl. Thomas Malthus, Charlotte Bronte, and Lord Tennyson"