Ana Deumert
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana Deumert is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2452-1949 | E‑ISSN 2452‑2147
Language, Culture and Society
General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux
ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS.Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly… read more[Not in series, 102] 2009. xxvi, 502 pp.
Structure and Variation in Language Contact
Edited by Ana Deumert and Stephanie Durrleman
This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect – from various perspectives and using different types of data – on the interplay between structure and variation in contact… read more[Creole Language Library, 29] 2006. viii, 376 pp.
Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch
Ana Deumert
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or ‘Cape Dutch’ as it was then called) are… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 19] 2004. xx, 361 pp.
Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present
Edited by Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche
This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 18] 2003. vi, 480 pp.
Introducing Sociolinguistics
Rajend Mesthrie, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap
FOR SALE IN U.S. AND CANADA ONLY. FOR SALES IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES, PLEASE CONTACT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This introductory textbook expertly synthesizes the main… read more[Not in series, 102 (1st)] 2000. 528 pp.
2024 Posthumanism and pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment, Vandenbroucke, Mieke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt (eds.), pp. 169–185 | Chapter
2022 The sound of absent-presence: Towards formulating a sociolinguistics of the spectre Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time, Sultana, Shaila and Dariush Izadi (eds.), pp. 135–153 | Article
This article engages with the theme of the proposed special issue in a perhaps unexpected way: for me, the ‘translinguistic movement’ is a pertinent reminder to move beyond the boundaries of language and other visible/audible modalities that are involved in semiosis. It also encourages us to… read more
2018 Settler colonialism speaks: Early contact varieties in Namibia during German colonial rule Language of Empire, Language of Power, Versteegh, Kees (ed.), pp. 91–111 | Article
In this article I explore a particular set of contact varieties that emerged in Namibia, a former German colony. Historical evidence comes from the genre of autobiographic narratives that were written by German settler women. These texts provide – ideologically filtered – descriptions of… read more
2017 Creole as necessity? Creole as choice? Evidence from Afrikaans historical sociolinguistics Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 101–122 | Chapter
John Singler (2006) encourages linguists to consider speaker agency in the genesis of pidgin/creole languages. I take my cue from his suggestion and consider the role of speaker agency in the history of Afrikaans, focusing on the Afrikaans negation (nie-2). I show that the social indexicality, and… read more
2012 Giving voice: The archive in Afrikaans historical linguistics Roots of Afrikaans: Selected writings of Hans den Besten, Wouden, Ton van der (ed.), pp. 377–388 | Article
2009 12. Language planning and policy Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 371 ff. | Article
2009 13. The sociolinguistics of sign language Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 407 ff. | Article
2009 4. Language variation and change Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 109 ff. | Article
2009 10. Critical sociolinguistics: Approaches to language and power Introducing Sociolinguistics: Second Edition, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 309 ff. | Article
2008 Mobile language choices — The use of English and isiXhosa in text messages (SMS): Evidence from a bilingual South African sample English World-Wide 29:2, pp. 117–147 | Article
This paper looks at language choice and use in South African SMS communication (texting) among bilingual (isiXhosa / English-speaking) users. Although English is the preferred language for most of the 22 participants (aged between 18 and 27), SMSes also create a forum for isiXhosa literacy (either… read more
2006 Introduction Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2005 Praatjies and boerenbrieven: Popular literature in the history of Afrikaans Creole Language in Creole Literatures, Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.), pp. 15–51 | Article
From the 1820s humorous representations of the local vernacular began to appear in the periodical press of the Cape Colony. These popular texts developed into a highly productive genre and influenced the formation of an early Afrikaans written norm by shaping expectations of social, linguistic and… read more
2003 Standard languages: Taxonomies and histories Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2003 Research directions in the study of language standardization Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 455–469 | Article
2002 Standardization and social networks: The emergence and diffusion of standard Afrikaans Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages, Linn, Andrew R. and Nicola McLelland (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2000 13. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Language Introducing Sociolinguistics, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 419 ff. | Article
2000 12. Language Planning and Policy Introducing Sociolinguistics, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 384 ff. | Article
2000 4. Language Variation and Change Introducing Sociolinguistics, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 114 ff. | Article
2000 10. Critical Sociolinguistics: Approaches to Language and Power Introducing Sociolinguistics, Mesthrie, Rajend, Joan Swann, Ana Deumert and William L. Leap, pp. 316 ff. | Article