Rural Voices (eBook, PDF)

Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
Redaktion: Seale, Elizabeth; Mallinson, Christine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With research that spans numerous countries and several continents, the chapters in this volume add broadly to knowledge about status and prestige, authenticity and belonging, rural-urban relations, and innovation and change among rural peoples and in rural communities across the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216229933
• Artikelnr.: 74842891

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Seale is associate professor of sociology at SUNY College at Oneonta. Christine Mallinson is professor of language, literacy and culture and affiliate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander Thomas
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Elizabeth Seale and Christine Mallinson
Part I: Revalorizing the Rural: Negotiating Tradition, Resistance, and
Change
1. Multivocal and Critical Performance of Urban Language in Rural Norway
Thea Strand
2. "Losing Our Inuttitut": The Intersection of Language Shift and Language
Attitudes in Nain, Nunatsiavut
Jennifer Thorburn
3. Townie, Bayman, or Newfoundlander? Linguistic Constructions of Urban and
Rural in Newfoundland
Becky Childs and Gerard Van Herk
4. The Social Mediatization of a Zapotec Transborder Community
Elizabeth Falconi
Part II: The Realities of Rural Diversity and Identity Construction
5. Rural Voices in Appalachia: The Shifting Sociolinguistic Reality of
Rural Life
Kirk Hazen
6. Ecologies of Sui Sociolinguistics: A Language Permeated with Rural
Social Structure
James N. Stanford, Wei Shuqi, and Lu Li
7. Rural Youth Language Practices: Linguistic Creativity and the Globalized
African Village
Nico Nassenstein
Part III: Social Hierarchy: Aspirations and Differentiation
8. Use of Standard Arabic [q] Lexical Borrowings in Syrian Rural Migrant
Speech
Rania Habib
9. Social Aspiration and Traditional Speech Features among Rural
Newfoundland Youth
Sarah Kristian
10. "It's Complicated" for Quebec's Anglophones: Language and
Stratification in Changing Rural Places
Aimee Vieira
Conclusion
Elizabeth Seale and Christine Mallinson