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Language Awareness in Multilingual Classrooms in Europe
From Theory to Practice
Av Christine Hélot, Carolien Frijns m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1844 kr
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Within the scope of today’s globalisation, linguistic diversity is a given fact of the world we live in. In several educational contexts in Europe, language awareness (LA) activities have been introduced with the objective to prepare pupils cognitively, socially and/or critically for life as …
Urban Multilingualism in Europe
Bridging the Gap between Language Policies and Language Practices
Av Giuditta Caliendo, Rudi Janssens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2010 kr
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Today’s growing mobility in European urban regions results in a more widespread language diversity, which is increasingly challenging current language policies. Against this background, this volume deals with the interface between language policy, language planning and actual practices. The impact …
Language Rights in a Changing China
A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study
E-bok, 2021
1770 kr
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China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China’s largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy …
Diversification of Mexican Spanish
A Tridimensional Study in New World Sociolinguistics
Inbunden, 2016
1844 kr
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This book offers a diversification model of transplanted languages that facilitates the exploration of external factors and internal changes. The general context is the New World and the variety that unfolded in the Central Highlands and the Gulf of Mexico, herein identified as Mexican Colonial …
Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Av Benjamin Hary, Sarah Bunin Benor
Inbunden, 2018
2141 kr
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This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, …
Language Change in Central Asia
Av Elise S. Ahn, Juldyz Smagulova
Häftad, 2017
294 kr
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Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions …
Diversification of Mexican Spanish
A Tridimensional Study in New World Sociolinguistics
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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This book offers a diversification model of transplanted languages that facilitates the exploration of external factors and internal changes. The general context is the New World and the variety that unfolded in the Central Highlands and the Gulf of Mexico, herein identified as Mexican Colonial …
Language Activism
Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality
Inbunden, 2021
1715 kr
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While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists and advocates at local levels are playing an increasingly significant role in the creation of new social imaginaries and practices in multilingual …
Language Rights in a Changing China
A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study
Inbunden, 2021
1752 kr
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China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China’s largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy …
Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society
An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs
Av Zi Wang
Inbunden, 2020
1794 kr
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Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese group dynamics. How one comports, depends on one’s status and position vis-à-vis others. To-date, no study shows what constitutes this hierarchy, where and when individuals growing up in Japan first come into contact with it, as …
Discourse, Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization
Micro and Macro Perspectives
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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The book examines the development and maintenance of a minority language, engaging on both micro and macro levels to address open questions in the field. Guardado provides a history of the study of language maintenance, including discussion of language socialization, cosmopolitan identities, and …
Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English
A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Av Akinmade T. Akande, Oladipo Salami
Inbunden, 2021
2096 kr
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This book focuses on the structure and sociolinguistics of Nigerian Pidgin English. Its major aim is to serve as a compendium which touches different major aspects of NPE as it has been observed that earlier works in this area have focused only on one aspect or the other. It will offer a broad …
Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies
Av Simo K. Määttä, Marika K. Hall
Inbunden, 2022
1752 kr
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Discourse and ideology are quintessential, albeit contested concepts in many functionally oriented branches of linguistics, such as linguistic anthropology, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and sociology of language. With many ways of understanding and utilizing the concepts, the line …
Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices
Av Cynthia Groff, Andrea Hollington m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1903 kr
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Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geographical setting, or with one specific continent. This volume bridges these different studies, and it approaches youth language from a much broader angle. A global framework and …
Language Rights in a Changing China
A National Overview and Zhuang Case Study
Häftad, 2022
280 kr
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China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today? Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China’s largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy …
Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present
Av Benjamin Hary, Sarah Bunin Benor
Häftad, 2020
550 kr
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This book offers sociological and structural descriptions of language varieties used in over 2 dozen Jewish communities around the world, along with synthesizing and theoretical chapters. Language descriptions focus on historical development, contemporary use, regional and social variation, …
Language Activism
Imaginaries and Strategies of Minority Language Equality
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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While top-down policies and declarations have yet to establish equal status and opportunities for speakers of all languages in practice, activists and advocates at local levels are playing an increasingly significant role in the creation of new social imaginaries and practices in multilingual …
Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English
A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Av Akinmade T. Akande, Oladipo Salami
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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This book focuses on the structure and sociolinguistics of Nigerian Pidgin English. Its major aim is to serve as a compendium which touches different major aspects of NPE as it has been observed that earlier works in this area have focused only on one aspect or the other. It will offer a broad …
Mapping Ideology in Discourse Studies
Av Simo K. Määttä, Marika K. Hall
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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Discourse and ideology are quintessential, albeit contested concepts in many functionally oriented branches of linguistics, such as linguistic anthropology, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and sociology of language. With many ways of understanding and utilizing the concepts, the line …
Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices
Av Cynthia Groff, Andrea Hollington m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
279 kr
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Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geographical setting, or with one specific continent. This volume bridges these different studies, and it approaches youth language from a much broader angle. A global framework and …
Not Eleven Languages
Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert
Häftad, 2024
238 kr
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Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in …
Urban Multilingualism in Europe
Bridging the Gap between Language Policies and Language Practices
Av Giuditta Caliendo, Rudi Janssens m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
305 kr
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Today’s growing mobility in European urban regions results in a more widespread language diversity, which is increasingly challenging current language policies. Against this background, this volume deals with the interface between language policy, language planning and actual practices. The impact …
Discursive Construction of Hierarchy in Japanese Society
An Ethnographic Study of Secondary School Clubs
Av Zi Wang
Häftad, 2022
309 kr
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Seniority-based hierarchy (jouge kankei) is omnipresent in Japanese group dynamics. How one comports, depends on one’s status and position vis-à-vis others. To-date, no study shows what constitutes this hierarchy, where and when individuals growing up in Japan first come into contact with it, as …
Current Multilingualism
A New Linguistic Dispensation
Av David Singleton, Joshua A. Fishman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1791 kr
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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 …
Constructing the Heritage Language Learner
Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities
Av Neriko Doerr, Kiri Lee
Inbunden, 2013
2010 kr
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Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an important trope of belonging, legitimacy and commodification. Many recent studies treat the "heritage language learner" as an objective category. However, it is a social construct, whose meaning is contested …
Discourse, Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization
Micro and Macro Perspectives
Inbunden, 2018
1844 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book examines the development and maintenance of a minority language, engaging on both micro and macro levels to address open questions in the field. Guardado provides a history of the study of language maintenance, including discussion of language socialization, cosmopolitan identities, and …
Language Change in Central Asia
Av Elise S. Ahn, Juldyz Smagulova
Inbunden, 2016
1844 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions …
Not Eleven Languages
Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert
Inbunden, 2022
1570 kr
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Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in …
Style and Intersubjectivity in Youth Interaction
Av Dwi Noverini Djenar, Michael Ewing m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1844 kr
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This book examines how style and intersubjective meanings emerge through language use. It is innovative in theoretical scope and empirical focus. It brings together insights from discourse-functional linguistics, stylistics, and conversation analysis to understand how language resources are used to …
Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond
Av Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington
Inbunden, 2015
1791 kr
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Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and …
