Current Multilingualism : : A New Linguistic Dispensation / / ed. by David Singleton, Joshua A. Fishman, Larissa Aronin, Muiris Ó Laoire.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Aronin, Larissa,; Bardel, Camilla,; Carson, Lorna,; Caruana, Sandro,; Cook, Vivian,; Cummins, Jim,; Dittmar, Norbert,; Ennaji, Moha,; Extra, Guus,; Falk, Ylva,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Fishman, Joshua,; García, Ofelia,; Georgiou, Vasiliki,; Graaf, Tjeerd de,; Harris, John,; Heugh, Kathleen,; Kärchner-Ober, Renate,; Lasagabaster, David,; Lindqvist, Christina,; Mihaljević Djigunović, Jelena,; Singleton, David,; Steckbauer, Daniel,; Ó Laoire, Muiris,
• HerausgeberIn: Aronin, Larissa,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Singleton, David,; Ó Laoire, Muiris,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 102
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 p.)

This volume approaches contemporary 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. It is divided into three parts on the basis of the broad themes: education (including multilingual learning in its general, theoretical aspects), sociolinguistic dimensions and language policy. The book's fifteen chapters, written by renowned international experts, discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations – issues relevant to the challenges faced in different ways by researcher and practitioners alike. All the contributions share a focus on currently operative patterns of interaction between contexts, events and processes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Current multilingualism: A new linguistic dispensation -- I Language teaching and language learning -- 1 ELF: Central or Atypical Second Language Acquisition? -- 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 policy -- II Social aspects of current multilingualism -- 5 Minority language use in Ireland: The time dimension -- 6 Mapping increasing linguistic diversity in multicultural Europe and abroad -- 7 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 -- 13 Linguistic quandary in multilingual Malaysia: Socio-political issues, language policy, educational changes -- 14 Managing language diversity in the Irish health services -- 15 Slipping between policy and management: (De)centralised responses to linguistic diversity in Ethiopia and South Africa -- Index