Signs of difference language and ideology in social life

How are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? How is difference, in language and in social life, made - and unmade? How and why are some differences persuasive as the basis for action, while other differences are igno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gal, Susan, Irvine, Judith T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnography. Wolof in Senegal
  • German-Hungarians in Hungary
  • Semiotics. Ingredients: signs, conjectures, perspectives
  • Comparison: the semiotics of differentiation
  • Dynamics of change in differentiation
  • Sites. Situating ideological work
  • Among and between sites
  • Scales and scale-making: connecting sites
  • Pasts. Library to field: ideologies in 19th century linguistic research
  • Coda avenues of inquiry