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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815100603321

Titolo

Language education and the challenges of globalisation : sociolinguistic issues / / edited by Martin Solly and Edith Esch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6064-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching - Social aspects

Sociolinguistics

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTERONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This book, by an international group of scholars, focuses on a number of sociolinguistic issues, some of them complex and controversial, linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in different contexts of immigration and super-diversity, in the light of new mobilities and new conceptualisations of changing social realities and language communities. The various investigations presented in the volume are often united and interconnected in their approaches to t...