ISBN:
1614512817
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9781614512813
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (382 pages)
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language CSL.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Singleton, David Current Multilingualism : A New Linguistic Dispensation
DDC:
306.446
Keywords:
Sociolinguists
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
;
Multilingualism / Social aspects
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Second language acquisition / Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Gesellschaft
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Linguistik
;
Multilingualism Social aspects
;
Second language acquisition Social aspects
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Mehrsprachigkeit
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mehrsprachigkeit
;
Soziolinguistik
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; Current multilingualism: A new linguistic dispensation; I Language teaching and language learning; 1 Global English: Central or Atypical Form of SLA?; 2 Faraway, so close: Trilingualism in the Basque Autonomous Community and Malta from a socio-educational perspective; 3 Issues in all-Irish education: Strengthening the case for comparative immersion; 4 Informal bilingual acquisition: Dynamic spaces for language education; II Social aspects of current multilingualism; 5 Minority language use in Ireland: The time dimension
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Mapping increasing linguistic diversity in multicultural Europe and abroad7 Multilingual attitudes and attitudes to multilingualism in Croatia; 8 Emerging and conflicting forces of polyphony in the Berlin speech community after the fall of the wall: On the social identity of adolescents; 9 Multilingualism in Morocco and the linguistic features of the Casablanca variety; 10 Multilingualism in Sweden; III Language Policy; 11 Language planning for a decimated and often forgotten non-territorial tongue; 12 Endangered languages and endangered archives in the Russian Federation
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Linguistic quandary in multilingual Malaysia: Socio-political issues, language policy, educational changes14 Managing language diversity in the Irish health services; 15 Slipping between policy and management: (De)centralized responses to linguistic diversity in Ethiopia and South Africa; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
This volume approaches current multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny. The book addresses the emergent global and local patterns of multingual use and acquisition across the world and explores the major trends that characterize today's multilingualism. Its fifteen chapters discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations
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