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

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• 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 toda...

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