Language in Strange and Familiar Places

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Language in Strange and Familiar Places is written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3111707504 (ISBN 10) and 9783111707501 (ISBN 13).

Language and place are intimately connected: depending on where we are, what the context is and what our aims are, we will adjust our language accordingly. Yet linguistics defines itself by a framework that determines which kind of language is worth investigating. Within that framework, linguistics constructs both language and place in multiple ways: language as a sequestered thing belongs to the field site or the classroom; language as fluid practice is associated with the street; language as reconstruction belongs to migration corridors. What about the places that tend to fall between the cracks? This volume explores language in strange and familiar places, from Europe to Africa, Amazonia, Australia and the Pacific, in order to shed light on them.