| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Human migration, culture, and language -- Migration and mobility -- The human need to migrate -- Early human migrations and language -- Trade, migration, and culture -- Writing and identity -- Linguistic capital -- Capitalism and colonialism -- Orienting to multilingual language use -- Critical multilingualism -- Narratives, knowing, and naming -- Kaupapa Māori research theory -- The Hei Manaaki study -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Empires, colonialism, and English |
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Introduction -- Polynesian settlement of the Pacific -- What is an empire? -- Empire before the age of modern colonialism -- Alexander the Great -- The Roman empire -- China's empires -- Islam -- The Age of Discovery and the rise of European colonialism -- The East India Company and the Mughal empire -- Merchant capitalism and language -- From trade allegiance to colonialism -- Colonial language policy in the Punjab -- Power and prestige in colonial language policy -- Technology and colonial migrations -- The hegemony of national and international languages |
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Nation-building in the Indian sub-continent -- The ideology of language and nation -- Media, language, and empire -- Post-colonial English -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Immigration and migrant language education -- Labour migration to Europe from ex-colonies -- Case study 1: post-Second World War immigration from Pakistan to the United Kingdom -- Identity -- Case study 2: labour migration and family reunion -- Neighbourhoods and networks -- Case study 3: Rakshanda -- Standard language myth -- Literacy practices and migration -- Case study 4: Rakshanda's literacy practices |
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Literacy as a shared resource -- Migration, literacy, and discourse -- Case study 5: Literacy mediators and cultural brokers -- Multilingual literacies -- Language and integration -- Multiculturalism -- Cultural diversity -- Multiculturalism in Europe -- From multiculturalism to interculturalism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Language learning and intercultural learning -- Part 1: migration in Europe -- Case study of Polish migration to the United Kingdom -- The wider context of Polish migration -- Language and the European Union -- Part 2: Linguistic landscapes -- Brick Lane's linguistic landscape |
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Migrants and refugees in the East End of London -- Part 3: language learning -- How are second languages learned? -- Goals of language learning and 'competence' -- Symbolic competence -- Challenging the notion of 'second' languages -- Translanguaging pedagogies for all learners -- Sarah's classroom in East London -- Part 4: intercultural learning -- Culture -- Identity -- Diversity -- Discourses about migration -- Ethno-relativism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Transnational networks -- Family language policy -- Case studies from Mexico and the United States -- Mexico-US migration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Language and languages -- Globalization
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Multilingualism.
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Transnationalism.
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sociolinguistics.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Multilingualism
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Sociolinguistics
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Transnationalism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351207706 |
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1351207709 |
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1351207695 |
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1351207687 |
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1351207717 |
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9781351207690 |
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9781351207683 |
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9781351207713 |
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