Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics
- Submitting institution
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 134904531
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Mouton de Gruyter
- ISBN
- 978-3-11-037012-6
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Sociolinguistics as a discipline is dominated globally by research on the English language. This volume aims to foreground the distinctiveness of the Romance field, including major national languages with official status as well as minoritized languages, endangered varieties, dialects and creoles across the world. In their Introduction, Ayres-Bennett and Carruthers suggest that truly comparative work in Romance sociolinguistics is still at a relatively early stage in comparison to other areas of linguistics (e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics). However, they argue that the multiplicity of varieties across the Romance field is key to its distinctiveness, making it particularly fertile ground for comparative sociolinguistic research on the linguistic landscape, on pathways of change, on the tension between ‘new’ and ‘traditional’ speakers, on language policy and on linguistic universals. Through 28 chapters, the volume explores a range of questions in relation to methodologies, linguistic variation and change, language contact, factors relating to medium, text type, register and genre, as well as issues concerning policy and revitalisation of minoritized languages. Ayres-Bennett and Carruthers contributed 50% each to the volume. They conceived the shape of the volume together, commissioned chapter authors, wrote the Introduction together (50% each) and edited the 28 chapters in equal proportions. Carruthers is single author of Chapter 12: ‘Oral Genres: Concepts and Complexities’.
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- Non-English
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