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Publication details [#64909]

Abercrombie, Amelia. 2018. Language purism and social hierarchies: Making a Romani standard in Prizren. Language in Society 47 (5) : 741–761.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropological linguistics | ethnography | language use | multilingualism | standardization

Language as a subject

Romani

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores language standardisation from an ethnographic view. It centers on Romani language use in Prizren, Kosovo, which holds a multilingualist tradition, and looks more widely at the social processes behind language standardisation.