Beyond boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : language and identity in contemporary Europe / / edited by Paul Gubbins and Mike Holt

• Pubblicazione: Buffalo, N.Y., : Multilingual Matters, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 162 p
• Disciplina: 306.44/094
• Soggetto topico: Sociolinguistics - Europe; Nationalism - Europe
• Altri autori: GubbinsPaul <1949-> HoltMike
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Language, Nationalism and Globalism: Educational Consequences of Changing Patterns of Language Use -- Chapter 2: Who We Are and Where We’re Going: Language and Identities in the New Europe -- Chapter 3: The Lexicon in European Languages Today: Unification or Diversification? -- Chapter 4: Lost in Translation: EU Language Policy in an Expanded Europe -- Chapter 5: Identity in Transition: Cultural Memory, Language and Symbolic Russianness -- Chapter 6: Transformation of the State in Western Europe: Regionalism in Catalonia and Northern Italy -- Chapter 7: Fixing National Borders: Language and Loyalty in Nice -- Chapter 8: The French Language, Universalism and Post-colonial Identity -- Chapter 9: ‘It’s a Culture Thing’: Children, Language and ‘Boundary’ in the Bicultural Family -- Chapter 10: Language Use and Identity Among African-Caribbean Young People in Sheffield -- Chapter 11: Punjabi/Urdu in Sheffield: Language Maintenance and Loss and Development of a Mixed Code
• Sommario/riassunto: Language and identity are closely interwoven: this collection of essays examines their relationship in a multicultural Europe and beyond and explores various ways in which language is used to forge class, regional and national identity. The question of multiple identity and the role of English are also considered.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond boundaries
• ISBN: 1-280-82798-X; 9786610827985; 9781853595572; 1-85359-557-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780462403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II