Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism /

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

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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 bilingualis...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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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

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