Sociolinguistics from the periphery : small languages in new circumstances / Sari Pietikainen, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Alexandra Jaffe, Nikolas Coupland

Author: Pietikäinen, Sari, 1968-
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2016]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages .)
Additional Creators: Kelly-Holmes, Helen, 1968-, Jaffe, Alexandra M. (Alexandra Mystra), 1960-, and Coupland, Nikolas, 1950-

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Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1 Small languages in new circumstances?; 1.1 Small languages; 1.2 Old circumstances and enduring contexts; 1.3 New circumstances; 1.4 Dynamic peripheries; 2 Reflexivity and small languages: the 'meta' imperative in late modernity; 2.1 De-traditionalisation and the 'reflexive imperative'; 2.2 Metaculture and metalanguage; 2.3 Heightened reflexivity and sociolinguistic discontinuity; 2.4 Metacultural motifs in Welsh linguistic landscaping; 2.5 Materiality and changing discourses of Sáminess, 2.6 Corsican metacultural representation as a project of the self2.7 'Sexy Irish': mediated representations of Irish speakers; 2.8 Sociolinguistic consequences of reflexivity; 3 Conventional and transactional authenticities in small-culture tourism; 3.1 Searching for authenticity; 3.2 Conventional and transactional authenticities; 3.3 Authentication and time: fixed and fluid; 3.4 Place as an authenticating resource; 3.5 Authentic products: the local as source and site of transformation or trope; 3.6 Authenticity, person and performance, 3.7 Authenticity as assemblage: the interplay of the conventional and the transactional4 Expanding possibilities for commodification: luxury, mobility, visuality; 4.1 Commodification and small languages; 4.2 Multimodal discourse of Sámi commodification; 4.3 Cwtch and Halen Môn; 4.4 Commodifying place names and spaces in Corsica; 4.5 Small languages and body commodification: the case of Irish language tattoos; 4.6 From enclaving to luxury; 5 Transgression, small languages and changing boundaries; 5.1 Transgression, multilingualism and small languages; 5.2 Pushing boundaries with parody, and 5.3 Transgressing the Sámi centre: the case of Märät Säpikkäät/Njuoska Bittut5.4 Transgressing media norms for Welsh: Madamrygbi; 5.5 Transgressing the norms of Irish in the commercial domain; 5.6 Transgressing the taboo against mocking Corsican nationalism: the case of Canistrelli Clandestini; 5.7 Transgression and maturing processes; 6 A view from the periphery: sociolinguistics, small languages and change; 6.1 Small languages: reconsidering centres and peripheries; 6.2 Small languages, peripheral contexts, big concepts; 6.3 A peripheral vision?; References; Index

Summary

"This book has emerged out of our collaboration in Peripheral Multilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Contestation and Innovation in Multilingual Minority Language Sites, a four-year research project funded by the Academy of Finland in 2011. We are grateful to the Academy of Finland for providing us with this opportunity to pursue research. We started the project with the aim of examining contestation and innovation in multilingual minority language sites. Our initial premise, based on our own and others' previous research, was that language boundaries can show both fixity and fluidity, and that the negotiability of such boundaries can be studied empirically as an emergent property of discourse and social interaction. We have brought this perspective to bear not only on the tensions that arise from complex and changing multilingual processes, practices and experiences in Sami, Corsican, Irish, and Welsh language contexts, but also on the creative acts and activities that are an important part of dealing with these tensions in the four research sites"--

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Cross-cultural studies

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9781316403617 (electronic bk.)
1316403610 (electronic bk.)
9781316593844 (electronic bk.)
1316593843 (electronic bk.)
9781316593165
1316593169
9781107123885
1107123887

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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