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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461949103321

Titolo

Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

ISBN

3-11-085200-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 346 p. : map

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 87

Altri autori (Persone)

WeiLi <1961->

DewaeleJean-Marc <1962->

HousenAlex <1964->

Disciplina

404/.2

Soggetti

Bilingualism

Language maintenance

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism / Wei, Li / Dewaele, Jean-Marc / Housen, Alex -- I. Theoretical frameworks -- "Holy languages" in the context of societal bilingualism / Fishman, Joshua A. -- Forlorn hope? / Edwards, John -- When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios / Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove -- Core values and nation-states / Smolicz, J. J. -- II. Bilingualism worldwide -- French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism? / Schiffman, Harold F. -- The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries / Nelde, Peter H. / Weber, Peter J. -- Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra / Viikberg, Jüri -- On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status / Kalogjera, Damir -- Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect / Wölck, Wolfgang -- The development of Navajo-English bilingualism / Spolsky, Bernard -- Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua / Marr, Tim -- Xhosa as a "home appliance"? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown / Klerk,



Vivian de -- Japan's nascent multilingualism / Coulmas, Florian / Watanabe, Makoto -- III. Multilingual management and education -- Managing multilingualism in Singapore / Daming, Xu / Wei, Li -- Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environment / Jernudd, Björn Η. -- Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students / García, Ofelia / Traugh, Cecelia -- Coda -- Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism / Mackey, William F. -- Index