[PDF] Social Media And Minority Languages eBook

Author : Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847699065

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As a field in its own right, Minority Language Media studies is developing fast. The recent technological and social developments that have accelerated media convergence and opened new ways of access and exchange into spaces formerly controlled by media institutions, offer new opportunities, challenges and dangers to minority languages, and especially to their already established media institutions. This book includes debates on what convergence and participation actually mean, a series of case studies of specific social media developments in minority language, as well as comparative studies on how the cultural industries have engaged with the new possibilities brought about by media convergence. Finally, the book also offers a historical review of the development of Minority Language Media worldwide, and evidences the areas in which more extensive research is required.

Author : Michael J. Cormack
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853599638

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This book is an international collection of essays by 14 researchers. Included are essays on general topics on minority language media, as well as studies of specific examples. The contributors are all experienced researchers in this field. Taken as a whole, the book is the first attempt to define and develop minority language media as a distinct field of study.

Author : Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137540664

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This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual chapters are grouped together in themes, covering regional, non-territorial and migratory language settings across the world. It is the essential reference work for specialist researchers, scholars in ancillary disciplines, research and coursework students, public agencies and anyone interested in language diversity, multilingualism and migration.

Author : Augustine Agwuele
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1315392968

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The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field. Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.

Author : D. Gorter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230360238

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Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact and language conflict in new ways.

Author : P. Seargeant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137029315

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This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.

Author : Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1800412320

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This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Author : Jacomine Nortier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107016983

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This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

Author : Pia Lane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317298861

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The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such processes. The focus is on social actors rather than language as a means for analysing the complexity and tensions inherent in contemporary standardization processes. By considering the perspectives and actions of people who participate in or are affected by minority language politics, the contributors aim to provide a comparative and nuanced analysis of the complexity and tensions inherent in minority language standardisation processes. Echoing Fasold (1984), this involves a shift in focus from a sociolinguistics of language to a sociolinguistics of people. The book addresses tensions that are born of the renewed or continued need to standardize ‘language’ in the early 21st century across the world. It proposes to go beyond the traditional macro/micro dichotomy by foregrounding the role of actors as they position themselves as users of standard forms of language, oral or written, across sociolinguistic scales. Language policy processes can be seen as practices and ideologies in action and this volume therefore investigates how social actors in a wide range of geographical settings embrace, contribute to, resist and also reject (aspects of) minority language standardization.