In Praise of the Beloved Language
A Comparative View of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness
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XIX, 351 pages
978-3-11-081324-1 (ISBN)
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A Comparative View of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. "Up front" about topic, methods and limitations
- 1.1. Delimiting the topic: what this book is and what it isn't about
- 1.2. Sampling problems, solutions and implications
- Chapter 2. Sanctity: Where language and religion meet
- 2.1. Spirit and soul
- 2.2. Materia sancta
- 2.3. Language as a moral issue
- 2.4. Parallels to nature and the body
- 2.5. Life and death
- 2.6. Summary
- Chapter 3. Ethnicity
- 3.1. Kinship
- 3.2. Of hearth and home
- 3.3. People, culture, identity
- 3.4. History/heritage: Past, present and future
- 3.5. Cognitive and emotional contributions
- 3.6. Unity: Territorial, cultural and beyond
- 3.7. Summary
- Chapter 4. Status planning
- 4.1. Responsibility for the language (status planning): Introduction
- 4.2. Rejecting past insult and injury
- 4.3. Cross-language comparisons
- 4.4. The moral obligation (and the natural right) to foster
- 4.5. The struggle for a life with dignity
- 4.6. Status aspirations and satisfactions
- 4.7. Dreams and displays of wealth, power and demographic strength
- 4.8. Summary
- Chapter 5. Corpus planning
- 5.1. Rejecting negative attributes
- 5.2. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
- 5.3. Modernization: Perfecting the perfect
- 5.4. Codification: Systematizing the sublime
- 5.5. The written language: The symbolic apogee
- 5.6. Summary
- Chapter 6. Summary: Inside in, outside out
- different voices, different views
- 6.1. Introduction: What do we gain by listening to "the voice from within" in the study of positive ethnolinguistic consciousness?
- 6.2. Contrasting the perspective of positive ethnolinguistic consciousness and that of most humanistic and social science inquiries vis-à-vis the ethnicity-sanctity relationship
- 6.3. The points of view of positive ethnolinguistic consciousness and of the humanities/social sciences in connection with ethnicity
- 6.4. The recognition of language status concerns in the humanities and social sciences
- 6.5. The social sciences and humanities consider corpus planning for contextually disadvantaged languages
- 6.6. Negative evaluations of ethnicity and of ethnolinguistic consciousness
- 6.7. On varying stages and intensities of ethnocultural saliency and on the factors which influence them
- 6.8. Summary: Revisiting language and ethnicity
- Appendix A: Citations
- Appendix B: Quantitative description and evaluation of the data
- Notes
- References
- Index
