Language Borders and Identity by Dominic Watt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

This is a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary discussion of the connections between language, borders and identities. Looking at a broad, geographically diverse spectrum of border contexts, this volume illustrates a range of methodological approaches. It examines political borders that dividemonoglossic and heteroglossic territories, as well as regional and local and symbolic borders. The authors assess the linguistic implications of these borders contexts such as language planning and policy (e. g. for multilingual education and protection of minority languages) and border control (viathe chapter on language analysis for the determination of origin, "LADO").Each border is unique, making generalisations about how language functions in "borderlands" difficult to formulate but casting the net as wide as we intend will, however, equip us to develop and refine models of how language is used to construct borders, and to indicate on which side of a borderspeakers situate themselves. It covers political, socio-psychological and symbolic borders. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach by combining sociolinguistic research with human geography, anthropology and social psychology. It uses international case studies and examples throughout. | Language Borders and Identity by Dominic Watt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters