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Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian SankoffEdited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 24] 2008
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Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 24] 2008
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
Introduction: Social lives in language
Photos of Gillian: Then and now17
Biographies of contributors and email addresses
Part I. Language Ideology: From the speakers, what can we learn about the language?
Language, mobility and (in)security: A journey through Francophone Canada
Language repertoires and the middle class in urban Solomon Islands
Land, language and identity: The socio-political origins of Gurindji Kriol
"I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa.
Tok Bokis, Tok Piksa: Translating parables in Papua New Guinea
Part II. Bridging Macro- and Micro-sociolinguistics
Chiac in context: Overview and evaluation of Acadie's Joual
How to predict the evolution of a bilingual community
How local is local French in Quebec?
Part III. Quantitative sociolinguistics: From the languages, what can we learn about the speakers?
Ne deletion in Picard and in regional French: Evidence for distinct grammars
The dynamics of pronouns in the Québec languages in contact dynamics
Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English
Mysteries of the substrate
Empirical problems with domain-based notions of "simple"
Index of names
Index of subjects
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