Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abstract -- Vorwort der Herausgeber -- Group boundaries and identity -- Language Choice and Identity in Post-Soviet Armenia (Stefan Rabanus and Haykanush Barseghyan) -- Linguistic Strategies of Constructing Durable and Permeable Ethnic Boundaries in a Brazilian Quilombo Community (Rita Vallentin) -- The Cyrillic Script as a Boundary Marker between "Insiders" and "Outsiders": Metalinguistic Discourse about Script Choices in Slavic-German Bilingual Computer-Mediated Communication (Bernhard Brehmer) -- Ethnic boundaries and minorities -- Language and Ethnic Boundaries in Multiethnic Georgia (Lia Melikishvili and Natia Jalabadze) -- Roma school mediation in Germany - Its Effects and Limitations (Maria Klessmann) -- Labeling difference - On discrimination and the social standing of children fathered by US soldiers during the Vietnam War (Sascha Wölck and Christina Rogers) -- Linguistic borders - language conflicts. Pleading for recognition of their reality. (Harald Weydt) -- Boundaries and language islands -- Anything goes? The gains and losses of the constructivist view on ethnicity: Some considerations based on German "language islands" studies. (Peter Rosenberg) -- Linguistic splits along religious lines: The role of language maintenance among Catholics and Lutherans in Texas (Hans C. Boas) -- Gray zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification (Samantha Litty, Christine Evans and Joseph Salmons) -- Language borders and discourse -- Crossing the Border, Closing the Gap: Otherness in Language Use (Konstanze Jungbluth) -- The permeability of language borders on the example of German-Polish language mixing (Dagna Zinkhahn Rhobodes) -- Boundary, a metalinguistic concept at the core of language deformability (Helena Topa Valentim)