Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact)

Cambridge University Press, 12/20/2018
EAN 9781107041356, ISBN10: 110704135X

Hardcover, 400 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

Contributions from an international team of experts revisit and update the concept of linguistic ecology in order to critically examine current theoretical approaches to language contact. Language is understood as a part of complex socio-historical-cultural systems, and interaction between the different dimensions and levels of these systems is considered to be essential for specific language forms. This book presents a uniform, abstract model of linguistic ecology based on, among other things, two concepts of Edmund Husserl's philosophy (parts and wholes, and foundation). It considers the individual speaker in the specific communication situation to be the essential heuristic basis of linguistic analysis. The chapters present and employ a new, transparent and accessible contact linguistic vocabulary to aid reader comprehension, and explore a wide range of language contact situations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. This book will be fascinating reading for students and researchers across contact linguistics and cultural studies.

Part I. Introduction and Theoretical Frame
1. Linguistic ecology and language contact
conceptual evolution, interrelatedness, and parameters Ralph Ludwig, Peter Mühlhäusler and Steve Pagel
2. On the notion of natural in ecological linguistics Françoise Gadet and Steve Pagel
Part II. On the Ecology of Speaker and Space from Situational to Intermediate Ecology
3. An interactionist perspective on the ecology of linguistic practices
the situated and embodied production of talk Lorenza Mondada
4. Approaching language in urban interactions ecologically
the case of Spanish in Lima Juan Carlos Godenzzi
Part III. On the Ecology of Space and Time, Traditions in the Formation of Macro-Ecologies
5. The historical formation of a macro-ecology
the case of the Levant Cyril Aslanov
6. Spanish anthroponomy from an ecological linguistic view
the Antillean society in the early sixteenth century Silke Jansen
Part IV. On the Ecology of Language and Speaker, the Hybridization of Language and Discourse
7. Reflections on discourse ecology and language contact
the crucial role of some scalar terms Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig and Tabea Salzmann
8. Language mixing and ecology in Africa
focus on Camfranglais and Sheng Anne Schröder and Philip W. Rudd
9. Hybrid speech of Francophone groups in Cairo
from macro-level ecology to discourse Cynthia Dermarkar, Françoise Gadet, Ralph Ludwig and Stefan Pfänder
10. The opposite of an anti-Creole? Why modern Chamorro is not a new language Steve Pagel
Part V. The Multiplicity of Ecological Parameters, Echoing the Theoretical Frame and Going Beyond
11. Contact between typologically different languages Peter Mühlhäusler
12. Theoretical and practical aspects of ecological language planning Peter Mühlhäusler.