| Survey on a Shoestring: A Manual for Small-Scale Language Survey Contributor(s): Blair, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 0883126443 ISBN-13: 9780883126448 Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing OUR PRICE: $30.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 306.449 |
| LCCN: 90071834 |
| Series: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6" W x 9" (0.46 lbs) 148 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shows how to conduct sociolinguistic surveys on a small scale without access to funding sometimes available to national language planners. Prepares to train people with little background in social research methodology. Spells out how those primarily concerned with local languages can learn to make informed decisions about language choice at local levels. Provides invaluable background on bilingualism and language use and attitudes. Shows how bilingualism develops and is maintained in different situations. Describes several methods for testing dialect comprehensibility in considerable detail, and gives advantages and disadvantages of each. It combines academic sophistication with realism and is a major contribution for conducting sociolinguistic surveys in general. |