Suchergebnisse

Ukrainian--reconstituting a language / Alexander Krouglov -- "Stubborn as a mule calls for a dialectical presentation" : on undoing and redoing corpus planning in Hungary / Miklós Kontra -- Linguistic consequences of the Sandanista revolution and its aftermath in Nicaragua / John M. Lipski -- Undoing some effects of the Cultural Revolution : Chinese address forms / S.M. Lee-Wong -- The reconvergence of German after reunification and its limits / Michael Clyne -- The reconvergence of Vietnamese / Nguyen Xuan Thu -- Undoing a "unified language" : Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian / Radoslav Katičić -- Reconvergence of Moldavian towards Romanian / Marcu Gabinschi -- The fate of Samnorsk : a social dialect experiment in language planning / Ernst Håkon Jahr -- Diets, nederlands, nederduits, hollands, vlaams, belgisch-nederlands / Kas Deprez -- From Pilipino to Filipino-1 to Filipino-2 : unmaking and remaking a national language / Andrew Gonzalez -- The undoing of language planning from the vantage of cultural history : two twentieth century Yiddish examples / Rakhmiel Peltz -- The Turkish language reform forced into stagnation / Hendrik Boeschoten -- Influence of the Middle East peace process on the Hebrew language / Ran HaCohen -- The impact of the peace process in the Middle East on Arabic / Hassan R.S. Abd-el-Jawad and Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq -- Eradicating racism in language : Afrikaans / D.J. van Schalkwyk -- Epilogue / Michael Clyne

In this interdisciplinary study, Professor Clyne examines the impact of cultural values on discourse. Through an exploration of the role of verbal communication patterns in successful and unsuccessful communication, he sets out to integrate and develop a framework for a linguistics of inter-cultural communication. Professor Clyne draws on data derived from recordings of spontaneous communication in the Australian workplace between people of vastly differing backgrounds, notably European and Asian, who use English as a lingua franca. This study offers both a pragmatic and a discourse perspective, not simply analysing data but seeking to extend the theoretical model. The rapidly increasing use of English as a language of inter-cultural communication between non-native speakers means that the issues raised here will be of interest not only to linguists but also to those involved in education, business and industry

Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time, and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of mutlilingualism in business, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society

This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clyne's seminal volume Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries published in 1992. The main focus of this volume is the exploration of linguistic standards in non-dominant varieties and the discovery of the ways in which different language communities of non-dominant varieties reconcile their wish to express their national, social and personal identity via language with their desire to adhere to a common language. Another central focus is the way in which the norms of languages, and in particular those of non-domina