Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1017/s0047404524000204
James Costa
This article asks why the Occitan language revitalization movement, which began in the 1850s, failed to convince the vast majority of Occitan speakers. Traditional explanations focus on social conflict, alienation, and diglossic ideologies. While essential elements, they may not provide a full account. Challenging the idea that patois is just a derogatory term pinned on what is in fact a language, this article proposes to take seriously the claim by traditional speakers that a patois is not a language. Drawing on fieldwork in Provence and historical data, I propose that the divergence is fundamentally ontological, revealing sharp differences that suggest that patois and language are indeed two separate things. The language movement's reduction of the patois/language issue to one of labels helps explain why traditional speakers and language advocates have been talking past each other for 150 years, raising practical questions for language movements worldwide. (Patois, occitan, ontologies of language, language revitalization, linguistic natures)*
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404524000332
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523001057
Sarah Hopkyns
{"title":"Silvina Montrul, Native speakers, interrupted: Differential object marking and language change in heritage languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 324. Hb. £85.","authors":"Sarah Hopkyns","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523001057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523001057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140774445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523001094
Allison T. Casar
{"title":"Karen V. Beaman & Gregory R. Guy (eds.), The coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 346. Hb. $170.","authors":"Allison T. Casar","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523001094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523001094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140794591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523001100
Cedar Brown
{"title":"Jai Mackenzie, Connected parenting: Digital discourses and diverse family practices. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 248. Hb. £96.","authors":"Cedar Brown","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523001100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523001100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140770481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523001045
Jaqueline Bemmer
{"title":"Laurence R. Horn (ed.), From lying to perjury: Linguistic and legal perspectives on lies and other falsehoods. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 411. Hb. €114.95.","authors":"Jaqueline Bemmer","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523001045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523001045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140782580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523001069
Alexander Black
{"title":"Rosaleen Howard, Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, politics, power. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 240. Hb. £96.","authors":"Alexander Black","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523001069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523001069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140782167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404524000344
{"title":"LSY volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0047404524000344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404524000344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140788303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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