Sari Pietikainen, Alexandra Jaffe, Helen Kelly-Holmes

Sociolinguistics from the Periphery

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a fascinating new perspective on language, boundaries, and speakers' impact on individuals' capital and opportunities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781107123885
• ISBN-10: 1107123887
• Artikelnr.: 45061620

Autorenporträt

Sari Pietikäinen is Professor of Discourse Studies in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Small languages in new circumstances?
2. Reflexivity and small languages: the 'meta' imperative in late modernity
3. Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism
4. Expanding possibilities for commodification: luxury, mobility, visuality
5. Transgression, small languages, and changing boundaries
6. A view from the periphery: sociolinguistics, small languages and change.