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KlappentextCurrent research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings and interactions of distinct grammatical systems, but (2) sociolinguistic research suggests that language borders and bound languages´ are counterfactual social constructs that cannot capture the diversity and fluidity of actual language use. This seems to constitute something like a quantum-linguistic paradox: language systems aren´t real (they are just ideological constructions), but at the same time, they are a reflection of actual structure.This book shows how this paradox can be resolved through an architecture that allows for grammatical systems without presupposing language borders: this architecture puts communicative situations, rather than languages, at the core of linguistic systematicity, while named languages are captured as optional sociolinguistic indices. The approach builds on insights from free-range language, a metaphor for language in settings that are less confined by monoglossic ideologies. The author looks at four different kinds of settings: urban markets, heritage language settings, multiethnic adolescent peer-groups, and digital social media.Central lessons to be learned from such free-range language settings are: (1) communicative situations support linguistic differentiation and can thus be the basis for fluid registers; (2) grammatical systematicity is grounded in communicative situations and does not require bound languages and linguistic borders; (3) named languages´ can emerge as social indices signalling belonging, but this is an optional, not a necessary development.
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-98554-087-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum11.12.2023
Reihen-Nr.9
Seiten108 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 175 mm, Höhe 246 mm, Dicke 13 mm
Gewicht398 g
Artikel-Nr.61138620
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