| Description |
xx, 786 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Handbooks of applied linguistics ; v. 9 |
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Handbooks of applied linguistics ; v. 9
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| Contents |
Regional and immigrant minority languages in Europe / Guus Extra and Durk Gorter -- Immigrant language minorities in the United States / Terrence G. Wiley -- Immigrant minorities: Australia / Antonia Rubino -- Linguistic diversity: Africa / Jan Blommaert -- Linguistic diversity: Asia / Vanithamani Saravanan -- Language contact, culture and ecology / Alwin Fill -- Models and approaches in language policy and planning / Thomas Ricento -- Back from the brink: the revival of endangered languages / John Edwards -- Economics and language policy / François Grin -- Language and colonialism / Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise -- Linguistic imperialism? English as a global language / Andy Kirkpatrick -- Language planning and language rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- Language and education / Markus Bieswanger -- Forensic linguistics / John Gibbons -- Language and religion / Susanne Mühleisen -- Language, war and peace / William C. Gay -- Language and science / Augusto Carli and Emilia Calaresu -- Multilingualism on the Internet / Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring -- Attitudes to language and communication / Cindy Gallois and Bernadette Watson and Madeleine Brabant -- Language, racism, and ethnicity / Thomas Paul Bonfiglio -- Language and sexism / Marlis Hellinger and Anne Pauwels -- Linguistic diversity and language standardization / Suzanne Romaine -- Borrowing as language conflict / Manfred Görlach -- Political correctness and freedom of speech / Mary Talbot |
| Summary |
The volume has four parts: Part I (Language minorities and inequality) analyses language contact and linguistic diversity as a global phenomenon, Part II (Language planning and language change) focuses on colonialism, imperialism and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for, Part III (Language variation and change in institutional contexts) examines language-related problems in education, religion, science and the Internet, and Part IV (The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change) relates public discourses on language and racism, sexism and political correctness to different ideological positions, values and attitudes. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of linguistic diversity and change presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Also available in electronically |
| Subject |
Linguistic minorities.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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Language planning.
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Linguistic change.
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| Author |
Hellinger, Marlis.
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Pauwels, Anne.
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| LC no. |
2007020157 |
| ISBN |
9783110182170 hardcover alkaline paper |
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3110182173 hardcover alkaline paper |
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