The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World

449 Pages·2009·3.45 MB·English

by  Martin J. Ball

The Routledge Handbook of
Sociolinguistics Around the World
Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, The Routledge
Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying
current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters
written by leading authorities in the region concerned, all continents and their respective
regions arecovered.Thisbookwillserveasanimportanttooltohelpwidentheperspective
on sociolinguistics to readers of English.
Divided into parts covering: the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle
East, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the
interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the
patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in
which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power
and national identity.
Sociolinguistics Around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate
sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and
power.
Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor, and Director of the Haw-
thorne Research Center, at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr Ball has written and
edited over 120 academic publications including Clinical Sociolinguistics and The Handbook
of Clinical Linguistics.
Contributors: David Atkinson, Yasemin Bayyurt, William O. Beeman, Mercedes Ben-
goechea,RichardBenton,SallyBoyd,DavidBradley,ZhannaBurstein-Feldman,Dominique
Caubet, Peter Collins, Bruce Connell, Serafín M. Coronel-Molina, Jeroen Darquennes,
Probal Dasgupta, Winifred V. Davies, Nadine Di Vito, Mark Donohue, Ina Druviete,
Alek D. Epstein, José Antonio Flores Farfán, Victor A. Friedman, Elaine Gold, Nanette
Gottlieb, Robert D. Greenberg, Victoria Gulida, Bill Haddican, Jen Hay, Kirk Hazen,
Christina M. Higgins, Nina Kheimets, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Miklós Kontra,
Shulamith Kopeliovich, Margaret Maclagan, Rajend Mesthrie, Catherine Miller, France
Mugler, Jiˇrí Nekvapil, Sandi Michele de Oliveira, Mair Parry, Viviana Quintero, Madhavi
Sardesai, Jane Stuart-Smith, Joel Walters, Lionel Wee, Dafna Yitzhaki, Valerie Youssef,
David Zeitlyn, and Minglang Zhou.

The Routledge Handbook
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the World
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Contents
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Foreword by John Edwards xviii
Introduction 1
Martin J. Ball
I The Americas 5
1 Sociolinguistics in the United States of America 7
Kirk Hazen
2 Sociolinguistics in Canada 25
Elaine Gold
3 Sociolinguistics in Mexico: defining new agendas 34
José Antonio Flores Farfán
4 The sociolinguistics of indigenous languages in South America 42
Serafín M. Coronel-Molina and Viviana Quintero
5 Sociolinguistics of the Caribbean 52
Valerie Youssef
II Asia 65
6 Sociolinguistic research in China 67
Minglang Zhou
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7 Sociolinguistics in South Asia 81
Probal Dasgupta and Madhavi Sardesai
8 Sociolinguistics in Japan 89
Nanette Gottlieb
9 Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam 98
David Bradley
10 Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines 108
Lionel Wee
11 A sociolinguistic profile of Turkey, Northern Cyprus and other Turkic
states in Central Asia 117
Yasemin Bayyurt
12 Sociolinguistics in the Caucasus 127
Victor A. Friedman
13 Sociolinguistics in the Iranian world 139
William O. Beeman
III Australasia 149
14 Sociolinguistics in Australia 151
Peter Collins
15 Sociolinguistics in New Zealand 159
Margaret Maclagan and Jennifer Hay
16 Sociolinguistics in the South Pacific 170
France Mugler and Richard Benton
17 A sociolinguistic sketch of New Guinea 179
Mark Donohue
IV Africa and the Middle East 185
18 Sociolinguistics in South Africa: a critical overview of current research 187
Rajend Mesthrie
19 Sociolinguistic studies of West and Central Africa 203
Bruce Connell and David Zeitlyn
20 Sociolinguistics of East Africa 216
Christina M. Higgins
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CONTENTS
21 Israeli sociolinguistics: from Hebrew hegemony to Israeli plurilingualism 226
Zhanna Burstein-Feldman, Alek D. Epstein, Nina Kheimets,
Shulamith Kopeliovich, Dafna Yitzhaki and Joel Walters
22 Arabic sociolinguistics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 238
Catherine Miller and Dominique Caubet
V Europe 257
23 Sociolinguistics of the German-speaking area 259
Winifred V. Davies
24 Sociolinguistics in the Dutch language area in Europe 271
Jeroen Darquennes
25 Sociolinguistics in the Nordic region 281
Sally Boyd
26 Sociolinguistics in the British Isles 296
Jane Stuart-Smith and Bill Haddican
27 Sociolinguistics in France 310
Nadine Di Vito
28 Sociolinguistics in Italy 327
Mair Parry
29 Sociolinguistics in Spain and Portugal 341
David Atkinson, Mercedes Bengoechea and Sandi Michele de Oliveira
30 Sociolinguistics in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland 359
Miklós Kontra, Jiˇrí Nekvapil and Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak
31 Sociolinguistics in the Balkans 372
Robert D. Greenberg
32 Sociolinguistics in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova 385
Victoria Gulida
33 The development of sociolinguistics in the Baltic States 402
Ina Druviete
Index 413
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Tables
2.1 Mother tongues spoken in Canada rounded to the nearest thousand 25
5.1 Caribbean population and languages, 2001 53
6.1 Language use in China at the turn of the century 76
13.1 Relations between Persian, Tajik and Dari 142
13.2 “We are eating” in Tajik and Persian 143
13.3 “We would eat,” etc. in Tajik and Persian constructions 143
13.4 Lowering and raising pronouns 146
19.1 Language diversity ranking as proposed in Robinson (1993) 207
24.1 Thematic ordering of papers published in the proceedings of the
Sociolinguistics Conferences in Lunteren in 1991, 1995, 1999,
2003 and 2006 274
24.2 Research topics featuring in the papers published in the proceedings
of the Sociolinguistics Conferences in Lunteren in 2003 and 2006 275
25.1 Population and area of the five Nordic countries 282
25.2 Keywords in Danish dissertations in sociolinguistics since 1995 and in
the Nordic database as a whole 284
25.3 Keywords in dissertations from Finland in sociolinguistics since 1995
and in the database as a whole 286
25.4 Keywords in dissertations from Norway in sociolinguistics since 1995
and in the database as a whole 287
25.5 Keywords in dissertations from Sweden in sociolinguistics since 1995
and in the database as a whole 291
31.1 The Balkan countries: summary of state-forming principles 376
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Contributors
David Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
His research interests include Language and Power/Critical Discourse Analysis; Lan-
guage Policy and Language Planning; The Politics of Language in the Spanish-
speaking World;Popular music in Spain; Language andthe Media; Language teaching
methodology and language learning. His work on Catalonia has appeared in many
journals since 1997. These include Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development;
Journal of Language Problems and Language Planning; International Journal of Iberian Studies
and Journal of Language and Politics.
Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-Board of Regents Endowed Professor, and Director of the
Hawthorne Research Center in the Department of Communicative Disorders, at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is an honorary professor at the University of
Wales Institute, Cardiff. His main research interests include sociolinguistics, clinical
phonetics and phonology, and the linguistics of Welsh. He has authored and edited
twenty-five books, 40 contributions to collections and over eighty refereed articles in
academic journals. His books include The Use of Welsh, The Celtic Languages, and
Clinical Sociolinguistics.
Yasemin Bayyurt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Language
Education at Bog˘aziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her research interests include
language planning and policy, Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, Teaching
English as an International Language, Cross-cultural Communication, Computer-
Mediated Communication, and general issues in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Her
publications includearticles invariousrefereed journals andbooksinthefield.Shehas
recently co-edited a book on Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language.
William O. Beeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota. He is past President of the Middle East Section of the
American Anthropological Association and Former Director of Middle East Studies at
Brown University. He has worked throughout the Middle East, especially in Iran,
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