ISBN:
9781108479332
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 250 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bridging linguistics and economics
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Linguistik
;
Wirtschaftswissenschaft
;
Wirtschaftssoziologie
;
Kommunikation
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Soziale Lage
;
Entwicklung
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Industrieländer
;
Economics Sociological aspects
;
Linguistics
;
Multilingualism
;
Konferenzschrift 2014
;
Konferenzschrift 2014
;
Konferenzschrift 2014
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Mehrsprachigkeit
;
Wirtschaft
Abstract:
The ultimate beginnings of this book lie in the interest that we the editors have expressed in the role that socioeconomic structures have played in determining the varying language choices speakers make in situations of language contact and multilingualism. Contrary to the received doctrine in the scholarship on language endangerment and loss, we have argued that globalization as discussed especially by economists accounts only partly for the spread of English as the foremost lingua franca of business, diplomacy, and science and technology around the world. It plays a negligible role in the general demise of indigenous languages and the death of nondominant European languages in former European settlement colonies, which is contrary to the fate of the vast majority of indigenous languages in the former exploitation colonies of Africa and Asia, where large numbers of small populations, typically rural, have maintained their ethnic vernaculars.
Note:
Literaturangaben
,
"So, in 2014, we hosted a workshop at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. We present here the willingness we shared at the 2014 workshop" (Preface)
DOI:
10.1017/9781108783101
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