Nancy C. Dorian

8.3k citations

60 papers · 3.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 20

Co-authors: Peter Trudgill Carol Myers‐Scotton Nikolai Vakhtin Nora C. England Anthony C. Woodbury Robert M. Vago Nora Marks Dauenhauer Ken Hale
Topics: Linguistic Variation and Morphology (24 papers)Multilingual Education and Policy (17 papers)Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (15 papers)
Cited by: Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics Literature and Literary Theory
Journals: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Language
Partner nations: United States

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Nancy C. Dorian

54 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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Literacy: An introduction to the ecology of written language. By David Barton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. x, 247.

1995 1.1k citations Nancy C. Dorian Language profile →
Language ideologies: Practice and theory. Ed. by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics 16.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 338.

1999 709 citations Nancy C. Dorian Language profile →
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1981 391 citations Nancy C. Dorian profile →

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1	Language ideologies: Practice and theory. Ed. by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, and Paul V. Kroskrity (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics 16.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 338.breakdown → 1999 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	709
2	Linguistic anthropology. By Alessandro Duranti. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 398. 1999 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	7
3	Dialect levelling in Limburg: Structural and sociolinguistic aspects. By Frans Hinskens. (Linguistische Arbeiten 356.) Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp. xix, 411. 1999 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	11
4	Contrastive sociolinguistics. Ed. By Marlis Hellinger and Ulrich Ammon. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. vii, 504. 1998 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	4
5	Legal and ethical issues in surreptitious recording . By Donald W. Larmouth, Thomas E. Murray and Carmin Ross Murray. (Publication of the American Dialect Society 76.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992. Pp. 75. Paper $11.00. 1995 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	2
6	Literacy: An introduction to the ecology of written language. By David Barton. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. x, 247.breakdown → 1995 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	1071
7	Kolonie-Deutsch : Life and language in Amana. By Philip E. Webber Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 127. Cloth $19.95. 1994 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	2
8	Sociolinguistics: A sociological critique. By Glyn Williams. London: Routledge, 1992. Pp. xv, 278. Paper $16.95. 1994 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	4
9	Language and ethnicity : Focusschrift in honor of Joshua A. Fishman on the occasion of his 65th birthday, vol. II. Ed. by James R. Dow Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. Pp. 255. Cloth $70.00. 1993 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	1
10	Language selection and switching in Strasbourg . By Penelope Gardner-Chloros. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991. Pp. xvi, 218. Cloth $67.00. 1993 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	1
11	The death of the Irish language: A qualified obituary. By Reg Hindley. (Bradford Studies in European Politics.) London & New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. xxv, 335. Cloth $54.00. 1991 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	30
12	Bilingual education and language maintenance : A southern Peruvian Quechua case. By Nancy H. Hornberger (Topics in Sociolinguistics, 4.) Dordrecht: Foris, 1988. Pp. xiii, 277. Cloth Dfl 95.00, paper Dfl 75.00. 1991 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	87
13	Language attrition in progress . Ed. by Bert Weltens, Kees De Bot, and Theo van Els. (Studies on language acquisition, 2.) Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1986. Pp. vii, 224. Dfl. 37.50. 1990 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	2
14	Bilinguality and bilingualism . By Josiane F. Hamers and Michel H. A. Blanc Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 324. Cloth $59.50, paper $19.95. 1990 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	165
15	Investigating Obsolescence 1989 ·Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Nancy C. Dorian	113
16	The modern stranger : On language and membership. By Lesley D. Harman. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988. Pp. viii, 182. DM 89.00. 1989 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	6
17	Minority languages today : A selection from the papers read at the First International Conference on Minority Languages, held at Glasgow University from 8 to 13 September 1980. Edited by Einar Haugen, J. Derrick McClure, and Derick Thomson. Edinburgh: University Press, 1981. Pp. xii, 250. [Distributed in the US by Columbia University Press; $22.50.]. 1984 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	1
18	The Fate Of Morphological Complexity in Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic 1978 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	11
19	East Sutherland Gaelic : the dialect of the Brora, Golspie, and Embo fishing communities 1978 ·Nancy C. Dorian	19
20	Grammatical Change in a dying dialect 1973 ·Language ·Nancy C. Dorian	82

About Nancy C. Dorian

Nancy C. Dorian is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and History, having authored 60 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (24 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (17 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (2.0k citations), Language and Linguistics (1.5k citations) and Literature and Literary Theory (1.1k citations). Nancy C. Dorian has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Peter Trudgill, Carol Myers‐Scotton, Nikolai Vakhtin, Nora C. England, Anthony C. Woodbury, Robert M. Vago, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Ken Hale, Colette Grinevald and Lenore A. Grenoble. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Language.

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