Language and Ethnic Identity: An Overview and Prologue
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
- Vol. 6 (3-4), 157-170
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x8763001
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to overview the study of language and ethnic identity. The general role of language in social categorisation and the influence of social categorisations on language attitudes, as well as the specific influence of ethnic identity on the microsociolinguistic, macrosociolinguistic, and social psychological aspects of language use, language attitudes, sociolinguistic stereotypes, ethnolinguistic vitality, and speech accommodation are reviewed. The contributions to the present volume also are outlined in the context of these areas of research.Keywords
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