Linguistic Minorities and Modernity (M. Heller), Sociolinguistics
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Linguistic Minorities
and Modernity
Advances in Sociolinguistics
Series Editor: Professor Sally Johnson, University of Leeds
Since the emergence of sociolinguistics as a new field of enquiry in
the 1960s, research into the relationship between language and society
has advanced almost beyond recognition. In particular, the past decade
has witnessed the considerable influence of theories drawn from
outside of sociolinguistics itself. Thus rather than see language as a
mere reflection of society, recent work has been increasingly inspired
by ideas drawn from social, cultural and political theories that have
emphasized the constitutive role played by language/discourse in
all areas of social life. This, in turn, has meant that the boundaries
between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with
the role of language in society such as (critical) discourse analysis,
pragmatics, stylistics, literacy studies and many areas of language
pedagogy are being blurred if not eroded.
Advances in Sociolinguistics aims to provide researchers and
advanced students with a series of volumes on both core and devel-
oping areas of sociolinguistics approached from a diverse range
of cutting-edge, critical perspectives. In all cases the books aim to
advance the field of sociolinguistics through their critical thinking and
insight.
Forthcoming titles in the series:
Language, Society and Identity
Philip Riley
Language and Power
Andrea Mayr
Discourses of Endangerment
Edited by Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchêne
A Critical Approach to Sociolinguistics
Sally Johnson and Tommaso M. Milani
Multilingualism
A Critical Perspective
Adrian Blackledge
Sociolinguistics of the Media
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Linguistic Minorities
ana Modernity
A Sociolinguistic
Ethnography
Second Edition
By Monica Heller
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identified as Author of this work.
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ISBN: HB: 0-8264-8690-8
PB: 0-8264-8691-6
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