Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on Minoritized Languages Past and Present

by Wim Vandenbussche (Editor), Stephan Elspaß (Editor), Joseph Salmons (Editor), Samantha M. Litty (Editor), Nils Langer (Editor)

Overview

This book combines studies of a broad range of minority and minoritized languages from the past and present to examine the dynamics of changes in the status of language use and language perception. They address two fundamental questions of sociolinguistics, namely,

A. How is linguistic variation at speaker and/or community level structured so that certain variants and varieties have a particular indexical value whereas others do not?

and

B. What language ideologies underpin our perceptions of the linguistic world, i.e. how do we perceive the way we speak, and/or the way other people speak, and what do we do with this perception?

Chapters include discussions of a large number of languages, some of which have largely been ignored in much scholarly discussion, such as Californian Spanish, Maritime Sign Language, or Danish and Frisian in the Duchy of Schleswig, as well as marginalized varieties of bigger languages, such as Scots or Nynorsk. The chapters, many of which were presented at the 2022 HiSoN conference in Murcia, offer insights into processes of stigmatization and promotion and offer a comprehensive comparison between seemingly different case studies focused on a core set of research questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803745565
Publisher:	Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	12/16/2024
Series:	Historical Sociolinguistics: Studies on Language and Society in the Past , #7
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Samantha M. Litty is a Research Associate at the Institute for Frisian Studies and Minority Research at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, where she is leading a German Research Foundation (DFG) funded project which focuses on the historically quintolingual Duchy of Schleswig.

Nils Langer is Professor of North Frisian and Minority Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. He is a founding member of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) and studies why people get upset about how other people speak.

Table of Contents

Contents: Nils Langer and Samantha M. Litty: Effects of ideology and policy on practices: Minoritized languages and varieties in historical sociolinguistics – Christine Wallis: Like father, like son? Scots and intra-writer variation in The Mary Hamilton Papers – Yoko Iyeiri: Comments on multiple negation in the Early Modern English period – Judith Yoel: Language shift from Maritime Sign Language (MSL) to American Sign Language (ASL): A historical perspective – Samantha M. Litty and Jan Momme Penning: Semi-public writings in the Duchy of Schleswig in the nineteenth century – Sung Min Park: Rethinking the language policy for the eastern provinces of the first-century Roman Empire – Tom Flaten, Elin Gunleifsen and Gro-Reneé Rambø: Linguistic and semiotic landscapes in Finnmark, Norway: Historical multilingualism, language ideology, and policy – Aidan Doyle: From modern Irish to neo-Irish: Reshaping a language – Vicente Lledó-Guillem: Interpreting the linguistic legacy of the Royal Chancellery of the Crown of Aragon: The broadcast of the Catalan public channel TV3 in Valencian lands – Julian Mader: Plain Speech and the Quaker pronoun of address in nineteenth-century England – James Konrad Puchowski: The Nynorsk movement: From National Romanticism to contemporary social campaigns – Ilka Thomsen: Multilingualism and vernaculars between ideology and practice: Tracing the language question at the “lunatic asylum near Schleswig” 1852–1864 – Covadonga Lamar Prieto: Administrative documents from the Mexican city of Los Ángeles (CSLA-25), 1835–1847.