Survey on a Shoestring: A Manual for Small-Scale Language Survey: 96 (Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas) - Softcover

Blair, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883126443 ISBN 13: 9780883126448

Publisher: SIL International, Global Publishing, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: SIL International, Global Publishing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0883126443
• ISBN 13: 9780883126448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148