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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery - Small Languages in New Circumstances (Hardcover)
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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery - Small Languages in New Circumstances (Hardcover)
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This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about
change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions;
ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered
imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users.
The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new
conditions surrounding small languages (Sami, Corsican, Irish and
Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction that
peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of
globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more
transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of
peripheral resources, and boundary-transgression with humour, all
carry forward change. These types of change articulate a blurring
of binary oppositions between centre and periphery, old and new,
and standard and non-standard. Such research is particularly urgent
in multilingual small language contexts, where different
conceptualisations of language(s), boundaries, and speakers impact
on individuals' social, cultural, and economic capital, and
opportunities.
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