Overview
- Details how demographic variables influence linguistic variation, change, and distribution
- Highlights the role of language in defining ethnicity and in intergroup conflict
- Coverage is national and international, prehistorical and historical, theoretical and applied, and methodological and substantive?
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: General Sources and Methods, and Concepts of Population, Language, and Ethnicity
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United States Experience
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International Experience
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Demographic Differences in Linguistic Behavior and Demographic Processes Applied to Languages
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Special Language Groups
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About this book
This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer’s perspective. It synthesizes the data on the materials, methods, and issues of this interdisciplinary field, pulling together the scattered materials published in this area into a coherent whole. Drawing on a wide range of sciences in addition to demography and sociolinguistics, including sociology, anthropology, statistics, psychology, neuroscience, and public policy, the book treats theoretical and applied issues, links methods and substantive findings, covers both national and international materials, and provides prehistorical, historical, and contemporary illustrations. The book treats the theoretical issue of how the language we use develops socially on a base of linguistic genetic capacity and the practical issue of how the intervention of the state and public figures may profoundly alter the natural evolution of the language. As such, this book will appeal to a wide range of users, from students to teachers and practitioners of social demography, sociolinguistics, cultural anthropology, and particularly to those social scientists interested in ethnic studies and human migration.
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Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Demographic and Socioeconomic Basis of Ethnolinguistics
Authors: Jacob S. Siegel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61778-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61776-3Published: 09 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87160-8Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61778-7Published: 25 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 719
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnicity Studies, Migration