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Contact Languages

Ecology and Evolution in Asia

By: Umberto Ansaldo

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Ecology and Evolution in Asia

By: Umberto Ansaldo

Why do groups of speakers in certain times and places come up with new varieties of languages? What are the social settings that determine whether a mixed language, a pidgin or a Creole will develop, and how can we understand the ways in which different languages contribute to the new grammar? Through the study of Malay contact varieties such as Baba Malay, Cocos Malay and Sri Lanka Malay, as well as the Asian Portuguese vernacular of Macau, and China Coast Pidgin, this book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the fascinating phenomenon of the creation of new, or restructured, grammars. It emphasizes the importance and interplay of historical documentation, socio-cultural observation and linguistic analysis in the study of contact languages, offering an evolutionary framework for the study of contact language formation - including pidgins and Creoles - in which historical, socio-cultural and typological observations come together.

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1139483145

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Languages in Contact

By: Lisa Lim,Umberto Ansaldo

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Languages in Contact

By: Lisa Lim,Umberto Ansaldo

This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

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Languages in Contact

By: Lisa Lim,Umberto Ansaldo

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By: Lisa Lim,Umberto Ansaldo

This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

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Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination

Threatening Languages

By: Kara Fleming,Umberto Ansaldo

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Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination

Threatening Languages

By: Kara Fleming,Umberto Ansaldo

Is linguistic revival beneficiary to the plight of newly emerging, peripheral or even ‘threatened’ cultures? Or is it a smokescreen that hides the vestiges of ethnocentric ideologies, which ultimately create a hegemonic relationship? This book takes a critical look at revival exercises of special historical and geopolitical significance, and argues that a critical and cautious approach to revival movements is necessary. The cases of Sinhala, Kazakh, Mongolian, Catalan, and even Hong Kong Cantonese show that it is not through linguistic revival, but rather through political representation and economic development, that the peoples in question achieve competitiveness and equality amongst their neighbors. On the other hand, linguistic revival in these and other contexts can, and has been, used to support nationalist or ethnocentric agendas, to the detriment of other groups, recreating the same dynamics that generated the argument for revival in the first place. This book argues that respect for linguistic and other diversity, multilingualism and multiculturalism, is not compatible with linguistic revival that mirrors nation-building and essentializing identity construction.

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Routledge

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Contact Languages

Ecology and Evolution in Asia

By: Umberto Ansaldo

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La radio in soffitta

By: Umberto Alunni

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La radio in soffitta

By: Umberto Alunni

Perché un titolo simile? Quale ruolo ha la soffitta nella mia collezione di radio d'epoca? La risposta è semplice: la soffitta è il luogo dove sono riposte. Ma non solo. Da quando ho iniziato, nel 1982, stavo già andando contro corrente: a differenza della maggior parte delle persone vi riponevo le cose più preziose. Non rappresentava solo un luogo fisico dove alloggiavano le mie radio, ma il posto dove mi potevo rifugiare. In quell'ambiente il mondo sembra essersi fermato.

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1291843485

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Revivals, Nationalism, and Linguistic Discrimination

Threatening Languages

By: Kara Fleming,Umberto Ansaldo

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Threatening Languages

By: Kara Fleming,Umberto Ansaldo

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Is the Language Faculty Non Linguistic?

By: Umberto Ansaldo, N. J. Enfield

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Is the Language Faculty Non Linguistic?

By: Umberto Ansaldo, N. J. Enfield

A line of research in cognitive science over several decades has been dedicated to finding an innate, language-specific cognitive system, a faculty which allows human infants to acquire languages natively without formal instruction and within short periods of time. In recent years, this search has attracted significant controversy in cognitive science generally, and in the language sciences specifically. Some maintain that the search has had meaningful results, though there are different views as to what the findings are: ranging from the view that there is a rich and rather specific set of principles, to the idea that the contents of the language faculty are - while specifiable - in fact extremely minimal. But other researchers rigorously oppose the continuation of this search, arguing that decades of effort have turned up nothing. The fact remains that the proposal of a language-specific faculty was made for a good reason, namely as an attempt to solve the vexing puzzle of language in our species. Much work has been developing to address this, and specifically, to look for ways to characterize the language faculty as an emergent phenomenon; i.e., not as a dedicated, language-specific system, but as the emergent outcome of a set of uniquely human but not specifically linguistic factors, in combination. A number of theoretical and empirical approaches are being developed in order to account for the great puzzles of language - language processing, language usage, language acquisition, the nature of grammar, and language change and diversification. This research topic aims at reviewing and exploring these recent developments and establishing bridges between these young frameworks, as well as with the traditions that have come before. The goal of this Research Topic is to focus on current developments in what many regard as a paradigm shift in the language sciences. In this Research Topic, we want to ask: If current explicit proposals for an innate, dedicated faculty for language are not supported by data or arguments, how can we solve the problems that UG was proposed to solve? Is it possible to solve the puzzles of language in our species with an appeal to causes that are not specifically linguistic?

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2889199142

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