Duela urtebete pasatxo hasi ginen proiektu honekin lanean, eta ehundaka hitz bildu ditugu, Azpeitiko hitzak eta esapideak bidali dizkiguten herritarrei esker. Guztion artean osatutako liburua da, beraz, azpeitiarrek egina, azpeitiarrentzat.

 Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project: composing research questions, designing the project, doing fieldwork, performing data analysis and writing academic texts or otherwise engaging in conversation with different types of social actors about the project. These moments are illustrated by colour-coded examples from the authors’ experiences that help researchers and students follow the sequential stages of a project. Clear and highly applicable, with a detailed workbook full of practical tips and examples, this book is a great resource for graduate-level qualitative methods courses in linguistics and anthropology, as well as methods courses in the humanities and social sciences that focus on the role of language in research. It is a timely text for investigating language issues that matter and have consequences for people’s lives.

 Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings builds a bridge between Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research (LCR) methodologies to take the evaluation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to a new level. The study innovates in two main ways. First, it is based on a highly diversified L2 database which includes learner corpus data as well as experimental data from the same learners. These linguistic components of the database are complemented with extensive information on learner variables, including cognitive and affective factors, which are rarely studied in LCR. Second, the study relies on multifactorial statistical analyses to assess the effectiveness of CLIL itself as well as the impact of the selectivity inherent in the CLIL system, which has frequently been ignored. The linguistic focus of the study is the English passive, which is investigated in CLIL and non-CLIL teaching materials, and subsequently related to learner output.

 This volume explores potential paths in historical sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on the inter-related areas of methodological innovations, hitherto un- or under-explored textual resources, and theoretical advancements and challenges. The individual chapters cover Dutch, Finnish and different varieties of English and are based on data spanning from the fifteenth century to the present day. Paying tribute to Terttu Nevalainen’s pioneering work, the book highlights the wide range and complexity of the field of historical sociolinguistics and presents achievements and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration. The book is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics and digital humanities to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.

The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing and contrasting the attitudes of young adult native speakers of British English and Polish towards the standard varieties of their mother tongues. The author reviews the Anglophone and Polish approaches to standard dialects and language standardization, integrating sociolinguistics, normative linguistics and prescriptivism. The core of the work presents and analyses the results of a questionnaire-based study of language attitudes conducted at several Polish and British universities. In conclusion, the author places the two groups of informants on a spectrum of language attitudes ranging from purism to tolerance of non-standard varieties. 

This study focuses on the emergence of English in the multilingual linguistic landscape in the northern Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián, an eminently touristic and cosmopolitan city in the Spanish Basque Country where Spanish and Basque, a minority language, are spoken. Even though traditionally these two languages have competed for a presence on language signs, English has become ever more present in the linguistic landscape of the city during the last decade. This paper analyses the use of English as an international language as compared to Spanish, Basque and French on language signs from government and institutional sources versus those from the private sector. The findings indicate that there are significant differences between the public and the private sphere in their motivation behind the use of English.

Préciosité, « jargons », « fringueurs », style fin de siècle, langage des banlieues… À différents moments de l’histoire du français, des commentateurs ont attiré l’attention sur l’apparition de phénomènes de modes qui semblaient mettre en avant de nouveaux usages sans leur promettre une carrière durable. La littérature en a souvent fait son miel, mais la notion a parfois aussi donné lieu à des développements inattendus chez les grammairiens. Longtemps considérés comme marginaux ou anecdotiques, ces phénomènes posent question au sociolinguiste d’aujourd’hui. Quels sont les rapports entre la « mode » et le changement linguistique ? Quel est le rôle de l’affectation, de la conformité, voire du mimétisme ? Autour de ce phénomène encore peu étudié, cet ouvrage fait le pari d’une rencontre entre sociolinguistes familiers des terrains contemporains et historiens de la langue française.

This paper presents Euskara, the Basque language and its varieties (dialects), spoken in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. The political status of Euskara differs according to the regions where it is spoken. Euskaltzaindia, the Royal Aeademy of the Basque Language, created Euskara batua, a standard form of the language, which has become well established in public life and media. Due to the creation of the unífied language, its use in education and the increasing prestige of Euskara, we have seen a strong rise of Basque speakers in the past decades, although with varying numbers in the individual Basque regíons. There is a decrease of Basque speakers in France. Time will show whether the positive trend in Spain can revert the negative development in France. Euskara is a pluricentric language. As opposed to other pluricentríc languages, there is no single diatopic variety, but Euskara batua, the standardised form, is the dominant variety.

 Cet ouvrage rend hommage à Louis Mercier, linguiste et lexicographe qui a consacré sa carrière à décrire le français québécois et à démystifier l’idée d’une langue unique pour l’ensemble des francophones. Les contributions publiées ici s’articulent autour de trois thèmes qui ont été au cœur de ses travaux : la mise en valeur du patrimoine linguistique, la prise en compte de la socioculture dans la description de la langue et la réflexion sur les normes et modèles linguistiques servant de référence. Si la plupart des textes portent sur le français québécois, ils ne s’y limitent pas et permettent, en s’attardant à la langue telle que perçue, analysée et décrite dans une société spécifique, d’enrichir les savoirs et les regards sur le français dans l’ensemble de l’espace francophone.

 This is the first of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the "World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties" (WCPCL). It comprises papers about 20 PCLs and 14 NDVs around the world. The second volume encompasses a further 17 papers about the pluricentricity of Portuguese and Spanish. The conference was held at the University of Graz (Austria) on July 8th-11th 2015. The papers fall into five categories: (1) Theoretical aspects of pluricentricity and the description of variation; (2) Different types of pluricentricity in differing environments; (3) African pluricentric languages and non-dominant varieties; (4) The pluricentricity of Arabic and Asian languages; (5) The pluricentricity of European languages inside Europe (Austrian German, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Hungarian, Belgium Dutch, French, Greek, Swedish, Russian).