Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	12. 10. 2018
Seiten	:	260
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
ISBN	:	9783319767130
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Stichworte aus dem enthaltenen Werk

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Stichworte im VLB

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Orality, Language ideology, Identity, Language variation and change, Community of practice research, Folk Linguistics, Ethnography, Shelta, Cant, Gammon, Irish Traveller community, metacommunication, linguistic anthropology, minority language, language policy, minority languages, area studies, discourse analysis

Produktinformation

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This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community’s cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of secret code. The author addresses Travellers’ metalinguistic and ideological reflections on their language use, providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members, and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so, she demonstrates that its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant flux, and by analysing speakers’ experiences of language in action, provides a dynamic view of language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history, language naming practices, ideologies of languageness and structure, descriptions of language use and contexts, negotiations of the ‘authentic’ Cant, and Cant as ‘identity’. Based on a two-year ethnographic fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language in society, language ideology, folk linguistics, minority communities and languages, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

Leseprobe

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Deine Buchhandlung

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