Title Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism / edited by Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen

Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : map Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 87 Contributions to the sociology of language ; 87. Contents Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism -- I. Theoretical frameworks -- “Holy languagesâ€? in the context of societal bilingualism -- Forlorn hope? -- When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios -- Core values and nation-states -- II. Bilingualism worldwide -- French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism? -- The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contraOn attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status -- Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect -- The development of Navajo-English bilingualism -- Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua -- Xhosa as a “home applianceâ€?? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown -- Japanâ€?s nascent multilingualism -- III. Multilingual management and education -- Managing multilingualism in Singapore Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environmentUsing descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students -- Coda -- Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism -- Index Analysis Bilingüismo Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Bilingualism. Language maintenance. EDUCATION -- Bilingual Education. Bilingualism Language maintenance Tweetaligheid. Form Electronic book Author Li, Wei, 1961 August 11- Dewaele, Jean-Marc, 1962- Housen, Alex, 1964- LC no. 2002072426 ISBN 9783110852004 3110852004

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