Language, Writing, and Mobility: A Sociological Perspective

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Florian Coulmas (Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics, Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen)

Language, Writing, and Mobility

A Sociological Perspective

Florian Coulmas (Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics, Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen)

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Oxford University Press
12 September 2022

Sociolinguistics; Writing systems, alphabets; Sociology

This book explores the interaction between three key aspects of everyday lifeEDlanguage, writing, and mobility EDwith particular focus on their effects on language contact. While the book adopts an established view of language and society that is in keeping with the sociolinguistic paradigm developed in recent decades, it differs from earlier studies in that it assigns writing a central position. Sociolinguistics has long concentrated primarily on speech, but Florian Coulmas shows in this volume that the social importance of writing should not be disregarded: it is the most consequential technology ever invented; it suggests stability; and it defines borders. Linguistic studies have often emphasized that writing is external to language, but the discipline nevertheless owes its analytic categories to writing. Finally, the digital revolution has fundamentally changed communication patterns, transforming the social functions of writing and consequently also of language.

By: Florian Coulmas (Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics University of Duisburg-Essen)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192897435
ISBN 10: 0192897438
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 12 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Laying the groundwork: Champagne and algorithms 2: Trading goods, trading words 3: Spreading the Word of God 4: National language and transnationalization 5: Half-breed, mulatto, creole: Race and language 6: From Cosmopolis to Ethnopolis 7: Virtual contacts 8: Wanderlust

Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 2004 to 2014 he served as Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, and he has held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, Georgetown University, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, and Chuo University. He is the author of the OUP volumes Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices Through History (2016), An Introduction to Multilingualism (2017), and Identity: A Very Short Introduction (2019).

Reviews for Language, Writing, and Mobility: A Sociological Perspective

Devoted to language change through trade, religion, nationalism, migration, race, urbanization, and computer mediation, this book is interesting in terms of scope... The book will be most useful to those seeking an overview of a topic. * Choice *