Download or read book Sociolinguistic Studies on the Albanian Language written by Eda Derhemi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sociolinguistics Studies on the Albanian Language written by Eda Derhemi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selection among Alternates in Language Standardization written by Janet Byron and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Download or read book Language Change and Language Death in Albanian Speech Communities in Greece a Sociolinguistic Study written by Lukas D. Tsitsipis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Between Separation and Symbiosis written by Andrey N. Sobolev and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.

Download or read book The Morphosyntax of Albanian and Aromanian Varieties written by M. Rita Manzini and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with Albanian, including the dialects spoken in Southern Italy, and with the Aromanian spoken in Southern Albania. These languages are set in the context of current generative research on syntax, morphology, language variation and contact – yielding insights into key morphosyntactic notions of case, agreement, complementation, and into phenomena such as Differential Object Marking, the Person Case Constraint, linkers and control.

Download or read book Revisiting Second Language Sociolinguistics written by Elena Kkese and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates socio-linguistic interactions in different second language (L2) contexts in an effort to identify the trends that lead to the acquisition of sociolinguistic variations by L2 learners, contributing significantly to L2 research and practice. It addresses sociolinguistic subjects such as multilingualism and its effects, as well as regional and social dialectology in L2. The different chapters explore the overall effect that society – including cultural norms, expectations, and contexts – has on L2 usage. They also consider how language varieties differ between groups separated by certain social variables such as ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, and age, and how these variables categorise individuals into social or socioeconomic classes. The volume brings together careful theoretical and empirical research conducted in different countries, including Catalonia, Finland, Greece, Malta, Malaysia, the Republic of Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates.

Download or read book A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language written by Vladimir Ė Orel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the historical development of the Albanian language (its phonology, morphology and lexicon) from prehistoric times to our days. The main focus of the book is the reconstruction of Proto-Albanian in its relation to its ancestor, Indo-European, and to modern Albanian.

Download or read book Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education written by Nikos Gogonas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education investigates the factors affecting language maintenance/shift among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. Using a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology, it explores the influence of three sets of variables on language maintenance. These are a) ethnolinguistic vitality, defined by the demography, status and institutional support of each group in Greece, as well as migrant and Greek pupils’ perceptions regarding these factors; b) migrant parents’ attitudes to language maintenance and their role in language transmission in the home; and c) the attitudes of teachers and the institutional approaches of mainstream Greek education to linguistic and cultural diversity. Results indicate that: • knowledge of Greek is common among today’s children of Albanian and Egyptian immigrants and preference for that language is dominant; • bilingualism varies slightly between Albanian and Egyptian second-generation pupils with Egyptians being more dominant in the parental language, due to their higher degree of identification with their ethnic group in comparison to the Albanian pupils; • the school context plays a significant role in the ability of second-generation youths to achieve and maintain bilingual fluency.

Download or read book A Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift written by Lukas D. Tsitsipis and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lukas D. Tsitsipis explores a case of linguistic shift in the Balkans. He focuses on Arvanitika, an Albanian variety spoken in Greece which is under threat through a process of attrition. Various factors relating the linguistic to the non-linguistic aspects of the shift are examined in detail. The emphasis is on both the macro-processes responsible for the shift as they emerge from the broader sociopolitical conditions of the Greek nation-state, and on the local communities' discourse asa complex response to these forces. Pragmatic aspects of discourse, power relations, the surfacing of linguistic ideology, and aspects of performance all figure prominently in a synthesis which shows that speakers are active respondents to social and political pressures. The author derives his inspiration from theoretical and methodological traditions in linguistic anthropology, but with political theory becomes as a central concern. In a period when linguistic anthropology is becoming reflexive and facing its social responsibilities, language shift is a locus for critical reflection: discourse about languages is ultimately discourse about human beings and the political process. Series Information Series Editor: Professor Suzanne Romaine, Merton College, University of Oxford Series ISBN: 0-19-961466-0 Series Description: Most of the world's speech communities are multilingual, and contact between languages is thus an important force in the everyday livesof most people. Studies of language contact should therefore form an integral part of work in theoretical, social, and historical linguistics. This series makes available a collection of research monographs which present case studies of language contact around the world. As well as providing an indispensable source of data for the serious researcher, it contributes significantly to theoretical developments in the field.

Download or read book Ancient Indo European Dialects written by Henrik Birnbaum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to provide a rigorous and comprehensive view of the linguistic divisions of early Europe, Asia Minor, Northern India, and Chinese Turkestan. The unifying topic "Ancient Indo-European Dialects" was chosen with a view to utilizing to best advantage the many competences of the contributors int eh extinct languages and language groups of early Europe, the Near East, and Central Asia. In this book each specialist treats the subdivision particularly suited to his research interest, yet is always conscious of and conversant with the entire sweep and continuity oft he Indo-European language area. It is an effort at delimiting the historically and methodologically demonstrable subgroupings, including a critique of such time-worn combination as Italo-Celtic and Balto-Slavic, and incorporating the principles of modern dialectology in a diachronic application. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Download or read book Sociolinguistic Knowledge of Albanian Heritage Speakers in the U S written by Carly E. Dickerson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation project examined the sociolinguistic knowledge of heritage speakers of Albanian in the United States, compared this knowledge to that of their Albanian language-dominant parents, and analyzed the context in which these heritage speakers are exposed to and use the Albanian language in their daily lives. In general, very little is known about the sociolinguistic knowledge that heritage speakers have about variation in their language, either in heritage contexts or in the homeland. Two recent studies on heritage Spanish offer conflicting results with regard to the extent and nature of heritage speaker sociolinguistic awareness. While it seems that heritage speakers are on a par with their non-heritage peers in the perception of variation in familiar dialects (Chappell 2019), it is not clear that heritage speakers have the same sociolinguistic constraints as their parents (Maddux & Rao 2019). Moreover, there is virtually no work available that has addressed the sociolinguistic knowledge of Albanian heritage speakers in particular. I designed several methodological components in order to tease apart the various factors at play in heritage speakers’ sociolinguistic knowledge. Data collection included perception tasks such as a verbal-guise experiment and in-depth ethnic orientation and sociolinguistic interviews in which I employed novel methods to elicit variation in attention paid to speech. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, I have been able to capture systematic patterns among heritage speakers while balancing this with individual-level insight into the diverse experiences that heritage speakers have had that influence their sociolinguistic knowledge. Not only do the results of this dissertation project provide clear evidence that heritage speakers do acquire complex sociolinguistic knowledge, the perception results also show that heritage speakers express many of the same attitudes towards linguistic variation that their parents and other non-heritage speakers express. However, it seems that the means of acquiring these social meanings are unique to the heritage context in that they tend to involve a great degree of overt instruction from their families and friends, or are based on a relatively small set of exemplars. The present work is important to the field of heritage studies as it is the first work of its kind to assess both perception and production of sociolinguistic variation by heritage speakers, and to pair those results with metalinguistic discussion of how heritage speakers came to acquire such sociolinguistic knowledge. Taken as a whole, the results of this project demonstrate the continued need for researchers to consider heritage speakers in their own right and to move away from the knee-jerk reaction to compare them to an idealized monolingual standard.

Download or read book The Reasons for Studying Foreign Languages in Albania written by Diana Skrapari and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of foreign languages is important in a globalized world. The study of foreign languages in Albania depends on the political, economic and diplomatic context of the country. When Albania was a communist country, Russian was the most spoken language in the country because the Soviet Union was the dominant country in the Eastern European communist bloc. After the fall of communism, Russian lost its influence and was replaced by English. The linguistic policy of the Albanian Government is influenced by the European Linguistic policy, as a kind of supranational policy. But, the study of languages depends also on personal reasons like to study, work and live abroad, travel and many other subjective reasons. Anyway, the study of foreign languages is interesting because it connects us to other cultures and people.

Download or read book Language Decline and Death in Three Arb resh Communities in Italy written by Carmela Perta and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language Encounters Across Time and Space written by Bernt Brendemoen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mixing and Unmixing Languages written by Amelia Abercrombie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing and Unmixing Languages uses the politics and practices of language to understand social hierarchies and social change in a post-conflict and post-socialist context. The book focuses on Roma in Prizren, Kosovo, where the author conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork, using language learning as a central method. Shifts in language practices among this highly multilingual group have reflected the demise of Yugoslav socialism, the rise of ethno-nationalist politics and conflict, and the post-war reversal of power relations in Kosovo. Roma in Prizren nostalgically narrate a past of cosmopolitanism and employment in contrast to the present. Their position today is complex: while they stress their relative integration, this position is fragile in the face of nationalist politics and imported neoliberal economic policies. Within this context, Roma NGO workers have found an economic niche working on projects to protect multiculturalism and minorities, funded by international aid agencies, centred on Romani language. This book discusses the historical trajectory and current configurations of a Romani organisation in the town, the standardisation of Romani and the hierarchical organisation of linguistic forms and language learning, the self-representation of Roma and the ‘gypsy’ image through Romani-language drama, and attitudes to purism, mixing and cosmopolitanism. Mixing and Unmixing Languages is suitable for academics and students in the areas of linguistic anthropology and linguistic ethnography, Romani studies, South-East European studies and sociolinguistics.

Download or read book The Romance Speaking Balkans written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.