Martin Guardado Libros

Focusing on the dynamics of minority language development, the book explores both individual and societal factors influencing language maintenance. It offers a historical overview of language study, emphasizing concepts such as language socialization and cosmopolitan identities. The author employs 'discourse' as a key analytical tool to delve into how these languages are preserved and nurtured within communities, addressing significant questions in the field of sociolinguistics.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.