TY - BOOK A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Polzenhagen, Frank T1 - World Englishes : a cognitive sociolinguistic approach T3 - Applications of cognitive linguistics Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-11-019633-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199222 VL - 8 PB - Mouton de Gruyter CY - Berlin, New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Igboanusi, Herbert T1 - The role of ethnically mixed marriages in language shift : a case study of Nigeria's minority languages N2 - As the foundation of homes, the marriage institution is an important agent of sociali- zation. In this regard, marriage can be relied upon as a major factor in language and cultural maintenance. However, mixed marriages may contribute to language shift in the home because they can lead to a change in language use patterns among minority language speakers and their children. This means that the likelihood of preserving a minority language is greater in marriages among individuals who speak the same indigenous language than in situations in which spouses speak different languages. This study uses questionnaire data from parents of ethnically mixed marriages to explain how mixed marriages contribute to language shift from minority languages to English (Nigeria's official language), Nigerian Pidgin (informal lingua franca) and the major languages (i.e. Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) in the home domains. The study shows that the future of minority languages will largely depend on the roles of families and the value attached to minority ethnic identity by young people, particularly those from mixed homes. Keywords: language shift; maintenance; family; minority languages; intermarriage; nigeria Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wischer, Ilse T1 - Rissanen, M. (Hrsg.), Hintikka, M. (Hrsg.), Kahlas-Tarkka, L. (Hrsg.), McConchie, R. (Hrsg.), Change in Meaning and the Meaning of Change; Helsinki, Société Néophilologique, 2007 BT - Change in Meaning and the Meaning of Change Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - "Im Angesicht der Majestät : Geschichte, Mythos und Transnationalität in Shekhhar Kapurs Elizabeth- Filmen" Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-7705-4803-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Empire and freedom : William Davenant's 'Republican' Plays Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86821- 132-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Bashing the bishop : the Rowan Williams Row and the incomplete secularisation of Britain Y1 - 2009 SN - 0944-9094 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Wilber's Force : abolitionism and the power of sensibility in Michael Apted's amazing grace Y1 - 2009 SN - 0171-1695 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L.C. T1 - Wie weit sind die inselkeltischen Sprachen (und das Englische) analytisiert? T1 - How far have the Insular Celtic languages (and the English language) been analyticised? N2 - Der gemeinsame Wandel der inselkeltischen Sprachen wie auch des Englischen vom vorwiegend synthetischen Typus zum vorwiegend analytischen Typus läßt sich vermutlich auf einen ca. 1500 Jahre dauernden intensiven Sprachenkontakt zwischen diesen Sprachen zurückführen. Heute ist das Englische die analytischste Sprache der Britischen Inseln und Irlands, gefolgt vom Walisischen, Bretonischen und Irischen. Letzteres ist von den genannten Sprachen noch am weitesten morphologisch komplex. N2 - I discuss the joint shift of the Insular Celtic languages and of the English language from, typologically speaking, predominantly synthetic languages c. 1500 years ago to predominantly analytical languages today. The demise of the inflectional morphology is most advanced in Present Day English. Welsh follows suit. Then come Breton and Irish. Intensive linguistic interaction across the boundaries of the Germanic and the Insular Celtic languages are proposed to have been instrumental for this type of linguistic convergence. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 35 KW - Irisch KW - Walisisch KW - Bretonisch KW - Englisch KW - Sprachwandel KW - Sprachkontakt KW - Sprachkonvergenz KW - Typologie KW - Morphologie KW - Komplexität KW - Quantifizierun KW - Irish KW - Welsh KW - Breton KW - English KW - Language Change KW - Language Contact KW - Convergence KW - Morphology KW - Complexity KW - Quantification Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41251 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mahlberg, Gaby T1 - Henry Neville and English republican culture in the seventeenth century : dreaming of another game JF - Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain N2 - Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century is the first full-length study of the republican Henry Neville in his many facets as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel and libeller. It traces the development of Neville's political thought from the English Civil Wars to the Exclusion Crisis and beyond, while also challenging the way in which the history of ideas has been conceptualised in recent years by discussing Neville's political theory alongside his lesser known libels, shams and poetry. The book also challenges an established view of Neville based on his collaboration with the better-known philosopher James Harrington and shows Neville as a political thinker in his own right. While studies of early modern English republicanism tend to focus on the Interregnum, Neville's Plato redivivus, which promoted a restructuring of the political order, was only published after the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy. This study therefore draws attention to long-term continuities in English republican thought and introduces the concept of anti-patriarchalism to focus on what Neville and other republicans writing before 1649 or after 1660 had in common. They shared their opposition to tyranny, not monarchy, and aimed to limit the discretionary powers of the executive - a concern which links the debates between the Long Parliament and the King of 1641 to Neville's proposals to limit the powers of the Crown in 1681. The author's engagement with Neville's reputation as an atheist and crypto-Catholic also sheds new light on the role of religion in republican thought. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-0-7190-7946-7 PB - Manchester Univ. Press CY - Manchester ET - 1. publ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mahlberg, Gaby T1 - Neo-Harringtonianism and " a letter sent to General Monk" (1660) revisited N2 - This article argues that a pamphlet entitled "A Letter Sent to General Monk" (1660) has been wrongly attributed to the English republican Henry Neville (1619-94). Instead, the pamphlet was more likely written by a representative of the Presbyterian faction shortly before the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Y1 - 2009 SN - 0268-117X ER -