Full Description
Language and Migration is timely for two main reasons: one is social - international migration is at an all-time high - and the other is theoretical - theorizing language as a mobile resource is currently the most exiting frontier in sociolinguistics.
Including the very best contemporary scholarship as well as key foundational research, this four volume collection will strike a balance between the socially-relevant and topical issues of wider concern raised by migration on the one hand, and disciplinary conceptual and methodological concerns on the other. In doing so, Language and Migration is intended both as a showcase of the most important work in the field as well as an intervention into contemporary debates.
Contents
VOLUME I: Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters Introduction 1 Homo sapiens populates the earth: a provisional synthesis, privileging linguistic evidence 2 Early agriculturalist population diasporas? Farming, languages, and genes 3 The origin of the Na-Dene 4 Language classification, language contact, and Amazonian prehistory 5 Origins of linguistic diversity in the Aleutian Islands 6 Contact and the history of Germanic languages 7 Migration and linguistics as illustrated by Yiddish 8 How people moved among ancient societies: broadening the view 9 Against Creole exceptionalism 10 Urbanism, migration, and language 11 Reflections on the history and historiography of the nomad empires of central Eurasia 12 Multilingualism in Greater China and the Chinese language diaspora 13 Migration and cultural interaction across the centuries: German history in a European perspective 14 Historical demography and historical sociolinguistics: the role of migrant integration in the development of Dunkirk French in the 17th century 15 Mobility, social networks and language change in early modern England 16 Language, migration, and urbanization: the case of Bethlehem 17 Creolized Chinese societies in Southeast Asia 18 Bloody language: clashes and constructions of linguistic nationalism in India 19 Urdu as an African language: a survey of a source literature.
