Linguistic Contacts and Elements of Ethnic Identification

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. General Editor's Preface V
3. Preface IX
4. SECTION ONE Introductory
5. Introduction 3
6. SECTION TWO Social Meaning of Language
7. A Transactional View of Speech Functions and Codeswitching 27
8. Extralinguistic Variables and Linguistic Description 55
9. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Pronoun Usage in Middle English 61
10. Codeswitching as a "Safe Choice" in Choosing a Lingua Franca 71
11. Other People's Words: An Aspect of Style in Ga Songs 89
12. How Role-Relationships, Domains, and Speech Situations Affect Language Use Among Bilinguals 111
13. Correlational Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Communication 127
14. SECTION THREE Survey Techniques
15. Sociological Aspects of Black English Dialects in the United States 137
16. Communication in Culture Spaces 145
17. Sociolinguistic Variation and Semantic Structure: The Case of Tamil kaRi 163
18. Perspectives on Sociolinguistics in India 171
19. A Demographic Typology for Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi Speakers in South Asia 183
20. Social Mobility and Specialization in Language Use 195
21. Modal and Modish Pronunciations: Some Sex Differences in Speech 207
22. The Effects of Marital Status and Age on Sex Differences in Language Style 221
23. Sampling, Elicitation, and Interpretation: Orléans and Elsewhere 231
24. Social Differences in White Speech 249
25. Language Choice and Socialization in a Multilingual Community: Language Use Among Primary School Teachers in Ghana 263
26. Relational Bilingualism: A Socioeducational Approach to Studying Multilingualism Among Mexican-Americans 285
27. SECTION FOUR Language and Cultural Identity
28. The Future of the Oppressed Languages in the Andes 309
29. A Comparative Study of Language Contact: The Influence of Demographic Factors in Wales and the Soviet Union 331
30. Linguistic Contacts and Elements of Ethnic Identification 359
31. Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation 367
32. Sociopsychological Bases of Language Choice and Use: The Case of Swahili Vernaculars and English in Kenya 377
33. Cree-English Bilingualism in Northern Alberta 389
34. Bilingualism and Language Maintenance in Two Communities in Santa Catarina, Brazil 401
35. Cherokee: A Flourishing or Obsolescing Language? 423
36. Chicano Bilingual/Bicultural Education 433
37. Helping Africans to Speak for Themselves: The Role of Linguistics 445
38. SECTION FIVE Modernization
39. A Typology of Language Education in Nigeria 463
40. Social and Linguistic Structures of Burundi, a Typical "Unimodal" Country 509
41. The Sociolinguistic Structure of the Danube Basin 533
42. Language Unification in Taiwan: Present and Future 541
43. The Persistence of the Ideographic Script in the Far East: Its Competitive Values Versus the Alphabet 579
44. Prestige Speech Styles: The Imposed Norm and Inherent Value Hypotheses 589
45. Attitudes Toward the Adoption of an International Language 597
46. East Europeans and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Alberta 605
47. Universal Literacy of the Formerly Backward Peoples of the Soviet Union: A Factor of Their Social Self Awareness 617
48. Communication in an Indian Village 627
49. Emerging Patterns of Communication Networks in a Developing Society 637
50. Network Concepts in the Sociology of Language 657
51. Problems of Language Standardization in India 673
52. Universals of Language Planning in National Development 693
53. The Dimensionality and Predictability of Responses to Language Planning Activities 703
54. SECTION SIX Discussion
55. Summary of Discussion 727
56. Biographical Notes 743
57. Index of Names 757
58. Index of Subjects 763