Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism / / ed. by Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Coulmas, Florian,; Daming, Xu,; Dewaele, Jean-Marc,; Edwards, John,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; García, Ofelia,; Housen, Alex,; Jernudd, Björn Η.,; Kalogjera, Damir,; Klerk, Vivian de,; Mackey, William F.,; Marr, Tim,; Nelde, Peter H.,; Schiffman, Harold F.,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Smolicz, J. J.,; Spolsky, Bernard,; Traugh, Cecelia,; Viikberg, Jüri,; Watanabe, Makoto,; Weber, Peter J.,; Wei, Li,; Wölck, Wolfgang,
• HerausgeberIn: Dewaele, Jean-Marc,; Housen, Alex,; Wei, Li,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 87
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters.

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism -- I. Theoretical frameworks -- “Holy languages” 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 contra -- On 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 appliance”? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown -- Japan’s nascent multilingualism -- III. Multilingual management and education -- Managing multilingualism in Singapore -- Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environment -- Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students -- Coda -- Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism -- Index