Scott Saft

Exploring Multilingual Hawai'i (eBook, ePUB)

Language Use and Language Ideologies in a Diverse Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Employing an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, Exploring Multilingual Hawai?i examines situated language usage and underlying ideological beliefs to explore and understand Hawai?i's multilingualism. This book begins with a description of the ideologies that developed as a result of contact with the West and then offers analyses that concentrate specifically on the roles of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, and the languages of Micronesia, and also the occurrence of language mixing in Hawaiian society. Scott Saft's discussion and analysis underscore how continued exploration of language usage in Hawai?i can contribute to our general understanding of multilingualism as a dynamic phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498561198
• Artikelnr.: 56813394

Autorenporträt

Scott Saft is professor of linguistics at the University of Hawai?i at Hilo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Development of Hawai?i as a Multilingual Society
Chapter 2: Hawaiian: Lost (Almost) and Found
Chapter 3: Pidgin: The Local(s) Voice
Chapter 4: Heteroglossic Language Practice in Hawaiian Society
Chapter 5: The Many Japanese Voices in Hawai?i
Chapter 6: Ideology and the Latest Arrivals: The Construction of "Filipino"
and "Micronesian" in Newspaper Discourse
Conclusion