Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity

Sudanese refugees in Australia
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-1875-9
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 259 Seiten, Gewicht: 645 g

Reihe: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society

This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development can be explored. The methods combine a quantitative domain-based sociolinguistic survey with discourse analytic approaches. The novel approach is valuable for fellow researchers working in interdisciplinary fields of language maintenance, language shift, multilingualism andlanguage planning in migration contexts. The ecological perspective adds to sociolinguistic theories of globalization and responds to current dynamics of translocality in modern immigrant contexts. The research presents language use and language planning efforts in the Sudanese community of Australia. Language, culture, race and ethnic identity are explored in unique sociolinguistic contexts using an emic research lens and giving voice to the participants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hatoss, Anikó

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables
List of figures
Acknowledgement
Preface
Introduction. Communities in transition
Chapter 1. The ecology of immigrant languages
Chapter 2. The ethnolinguistic study
Chapter 3. Language policy context
Chapter 4. Displacement
Chapter 5. Languages lost and gained in transition
Chapter 6. New spaces of multilingualism in Australia
Chapter 7. Constructing identities
Chapter 8. Projecting the future
Chapter 9. Micro-level language planning
Conclusion
References