• Media type: E-Book; Conference Proceedings
  • Title: Language empires in comparative perspective
  • Contains: Contents; Preface; Arabization and linguistic domination: Berber and Arabic in the North of Africa; Arabic, and a few good words about empires (but not all of them); An empire of learning: Arabic as a global language; Chinese influence on Vietnamese: A Sinospheric tale; Cracks in the foundation of a language empire - the resurgence of autochthonous lesser used languages in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland; Challenges of linguistic diversity in Formosa; Russian colonialism and hegemony and Native Siberian languages.
    Language policies and language loyalties after twenty years in post-Soviet Russia: The case of KhakassiaSociolinguistic and linguistic outcomes of Nivkh-Russian language contact; The evolution of Chechen in asymmetrical contact with Russian; The emergence of gender agreement in code-switched verbal constructions in Erzya-Russian bilingual discourse; Grammatical effects of Russian-Udmurt language contact; The bilingualism of Finno-Ugric language speakers in the Volga Federal district; Subjective factors of language vitality: Language attitudes of the Buryat ethnic group.
    On the linguistic behavior of immigrants from the post-Soviet countries in GermanyCollective beliefs of the mixed speech speaker in Belarus; Belarusian vs. Russian, regularity vs. irregularity in adjective and adverb comparison of mixed speech in Belarus; Post-Soviet Estonian-Russian language contact: Transfer and convergence in Estonian Russian; Index of Authors; Index of Languages; Index of Subjects; Literature.
  • Contributor: Stolz, Christel [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Berlin; München; Boston: De Gruyter, [2015]
  • Published in: Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik ; 6
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (404 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9783110408362
  • ISBN: 9783110408362
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  • RVK notation: ES 500 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Arabisch > Chinesisch > Englisch > Russisch > Sprachkontakt > Minderheitensprache > Bedrohte Sprache > Sprachverbreitung
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  • Description: The articles gathered in Language Empires in Comparative Perspective address language spread and subsequent marginalization of minority languages, language endangerment and revitalization, contact-induced language change, and identity issues, with an emphasis on the dominance of non-Western languages, namely Arabic, Chinese, and Russian
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