The South Pacific

Frontmatter

Contents

Regional Overview

Regional Overview

Scandinavia

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The British Isles

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The Low Countries

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The German-Speaking Countries

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Switzerland

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France

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Italy

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The Iberian Peninsula

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Hungarian In- and Outside Hungary

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Rumänien und Moldau

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The South-Slavic Area

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The West-Slavic Languages

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The East-Slavic Area

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The Baltic States

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Gypsy Languages

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Albania

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Greece and Cyprus

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Central Asia and Mongolia

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Georgia

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Armenia

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Turkey

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Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan

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The Arabic-speaking Middle East

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Israel and the Jewish Languages

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The Arabian Peninsula and Iraq

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North Africa

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Francophone West Africa

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Sudan and the Horn of Africa

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Anglophone West Africa

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East Africa

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Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi

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Lusophone Africa

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Southern Africa

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Madagascar and the Comoros

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The Indian Ocean

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South Asia

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China

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Mainland Southeast Asia

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Malaysia and Insular Southeast Asia

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Japan und Korea

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Australia and New Zealand

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The South Pacific

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Canada

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The USA

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Bermuda and the Bahamas

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Mexico and Central America

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The Hispanophone Caribbean

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The Anglophone Caribbean

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The Francophone Caribbean

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The Dutch- speaking Caribbean

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Hispanophone South America

Regional Overview

Brazil

Regional Overview

English in the South Atlantic Ocean

Linguistic Change, Sociolinguistic Aspects

Linguistic Change, Sociolinguistic Aspects

The Relationship between Linguistic and Social Change

Linguistic Change, Sociolinguistic Aspects

Der Übergang von Oralität zu Skribalität in soziolinguistischer Perspektive

Regional Overview

The Alphabetization of Speech Communities

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Convergence and Divergence of Regional Varieties

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Development and Reform of Standard Languages and Destandardization

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Sociolinguistic Aspects of Social Modernization

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The Development of Languages for Special Purposes

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Colonization and Decolonization

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The Development of Language Empires

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Language Maintenance, Language Decline and Language Death

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Migration and Language

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Sociolinguistic Developments as a Diffusion Process

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Language Spread

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Language History and Historical Sociolinguistics

Application

Application

Forensic Sociolinguistics

Application

Discourse Analysis and the Law

Regional Overview

The Sociolinguistics of Ageing

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Sociolinguistics and Mother-Tongue Education

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Discourse in the Classroom

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Sociolinguistics and Second Language Teaching

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Sociolinguistics and Foreign Language Teaching

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Language Planning: Standardization

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Language Planning — Language Determination

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Language Planning: Graphization and the Development of Writing Systems

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Language Planning: Modernization

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Language Maintenance and Reversing Language Shift

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Language Revival

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Language Cultivation

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Lexicography and Sociolinguistics

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Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Minorities

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Choosing an Official Language

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Applied Linguistic Gender Research

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Sociolinguistics and Speech Therapy

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Therapeutic Discourse

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Sociolinguistics and Intercultural Communication

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Applied Social Dialectology

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Rhetorik

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Revealing the Implications of Ideological Language Use

Regional Overview

Linguistic Human Rights

Subject Index