Liquid Languages by Britta Schneider
Which ideas about language are prevalent in cultures that are not framed in Western nationalist and literate traditions? How do people conceptualise language if speakers of the same community are multilingual, have access to different language resources and only partially share ideas about what is right and wrong in language? This book explores the 'liquid' properties of language, highlighting how languages, as discursive-material assemblages, can differ in their degree of fixity. It provides a linguistic anthropological study of the language ideologies in Belize, where ethnic belonging and language practice do not necessarily match and where stable language norms are not always considered a value. Scrutinising ethnographic data and examinations of local performances of English, it shows that languages emerge in relation to belonging, prestige and material culture. Bringing to the fore liquid language cultures, it provides important additions to our understanding of late modern language assemblages in a globalising world.-
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
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The Linguistic Legacy of Spanish and Portuguese
- Nahuatl and its Speakers across Time
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The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
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Contact Languages
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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific
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The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars
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The Bilingual Child
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The Ecology of Language Evolution
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Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa
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Complexity in Language
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World Englishes and Culture Wars
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Language Contact in Europe
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Diglossia and Language Contact
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The Lingua Franca
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Language Contact and Grammatical Change
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Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular
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Postcolonial English
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Bilingual Language Acquisition
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A Linguistic Geography of Africa
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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact
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Dynamics of Language Contact
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Translingual Practices
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Voices of Immigration
Britta Schneider is a Professor in the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at European University, Viadrina. Her research examines the intersection of language ideology, material culture and technology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009249874 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009249878 |
| Title | Liquid Languages |
| Author | Britta Schneider |
| Series | Cambridge Approaches To Language Contact |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 314 |
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