Language, Writing, and Mobility - Florian Coulmas

Language, Writing, and Mobility

A Sociological Perspective

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Buch | Hardcover
202 Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289743-5 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
This book explores the interaction between three key aspects of everyday life—language, writing, and mobility—with particular focus on their effects on language contact. Florian Coulmas demonstrates the importance of writing in sociolinguistics, and explores the impact of the digital revolution on communication patterns.
This book explores the interaction between three key aspects of everyday life—language, writing, and mobility —with particular focus on their effects on language contact. While the book adopts an established view of language and society that is in keeping with the sociolinguistic paradigm developed in recent decades, it differs from earlier studies in that it assigns writing a central position. Sociolinguistics has long concentrated primarily on speech, but Florian Coulmas shows in this volume that the social importance of writing should not be disregarded: it is the most consequential technology ever invented; it suggests stability; and it defines borders. Linguistic studies have often emphasized that writing is external to language, but the discipline nevertheless owes its analytic categories to writing. Finally, the digital revolution has fundamentally changed communication patterns, transforming the social functions of writing and consequently also of language.

Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 2004 to 2014 he served as Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, and he has held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Georgetown University, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, and Chuo University. He is the author of the OUP volumes Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices Through History (2016), An Introduction to Multilingualism (2017), and Identity: A Very Short Introduction (2019).

1: Laying the groundwork: Champagne and algorithms
2: Trading goods, trading words
3: Spreading the Word of God
4: National language and transnationalization
5: Half-breed, mulatto, creole: Race and language
6: From Cosmopolis to Ethnopolis
7: Virtual contacts
8: Wanderlust

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 241 mm
Gewicht 508 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-289743-8 / 0192897438
ISBN-13 978-0-19-289743-5 / 9780192897435
Zustand Neuware
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