Revisiting Ethnolinguistic Vitality

This book examines traditional theories of linguistic vitality in the context of subcultural languages.

Autorentext

Natasha E. Ravyse lectures at the North-West University (Faculty of Law), South Africa, and has also received an excellence award in lecturing. She has a PhD in linguistics and literary theory, which was accepted without condition by her international reviewers. She has dedicated her entire postgraduate career to exploring subcultural languages from both a literature and real-world perspective. Her MA received an institutional excellence award for being the best dissertation in 2014, and she is a member of an international honours society for ranking in the top 15% of scholars, on a national stage. She is continuing her research and publications in academic journals.

Inhalt

1. The theory before the theory 2. The alchemy of theory building: An overview of methodological considerations 3. Back to the future Ethnolinguistic vitality 4. The underworld, neo-tribes and fantasy: Culture and language 5. The nitty-gritty An SLR for subcultural linguistic vitality elements 6. Putting it all together and testing it out 7. The as-fancy-as-it-gets-for-me stats chapter 8. A final word