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Heritage Languages: Extending Variationist Approaches

Autor Naomi Nagy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2024
Heritage language speakers often feel discouraged from using their heritage language because they are told they don't speak it well. This book offsets such views by investigating heritage language variation and change across generations, in eight languages spoken in Toronto. It introduces new methodology to help readers understand and apply variationist sociolinguistic approaches to quantitatively analyze spontaneous speech. This approach, based on a corpus of 400+ speakers, shows that variation and change across the grammar of heritage languages resembles the patterns in hegemonic majority languages, contrasting with the simplification/attrition patterns in experimental heritage language studies. Chapters compare patterns across generations, across languages, across ten variables in Cantonese, and between indexical and non-indexical patterns. Heritage language speakers are quoted, showing that this research increases heritage language usage and pride. Providing a tool for language revitalization, it is essential reading for anyone interested in learning about and/or conducting research on heritage languages.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781316518229
ISBN-10: 1316518221
Pagini: 275
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. What Are Heritage Languages and Why Should We Study Them?; 2. Experimental and Variationist Research on Heritage Languages; 3. The Toronto Context; 4. HLVC Methods and Tools; 5. Cross-Variety Comparisons; 6. Cross-Language Comparisons; 7. Heritage Cantonese: A Case Study; 8. Indexicality in Heritage Languages; 9. Analyzing Heritage Languages in Linguistics Classes; 10. What Heritage Language Speakers Tell Us about Language, Variation and Change; 11. Bibliography; Index.

Notă biografică

Naomi Nagy is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. She has conducted sociolinguistic fieldwork in Italy, Canada and the USA. She directs the Heritage Language Variation and Change Project, examining ten heritage languages. Recent publications include Variation at the Crossroads: Advancing theory by integrating methods (2017) and Francoprovençal: Documenting contact varieties in Europe and North America (2018).

Descriere

The first major comparison of heritage languages' variable grammar, this book uses quantitative methods to study three generations' speech.