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Investigating English in Europe : contexts and agendas / / Andrew Linn ; with contributions from Ulrich Ammon, [and seventeen others]



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Autore: Linn Andrew Visualizza persona
Titolo: Investigating English in Europe : contexts and agendas / / Andrew Linn ; with contributions from Ulrich Ammon, [and seventeen others] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
Disciplina: 427
Soggetto topico: English language - Europe
Language planning - Europe
English language - Social aspects - Europe
Sociolinguistics - Europe
Soggetto non controllato: English as a Lingua Franca
English in Europe
Language Planning
Persona (resp. second.): AmmonUlrich
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Series preface -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2.1 The study and teaching of English in the schools -- 2.2 English as a university subject -- 2.3 Lingua francas of Europe -- 2.4 English as a language of science -- 2.5 English in multilingual European economic space -- 2.6 Summary: The importance of a historical approach -- 3.1 English in the language ecology of Europe -- 3.2 Early approaches to conceptualizing English in Europe -- 3.3 Native speaker English -- 3.4 European Englishes -- 3.5 English as a Lingua Franca in Europe -- 3.5.6 English as a Lingua Franca in the business domain (BELF) -- 3.6 Pronunciation -- 3.7 English-medium instruction (EMI) -- 3.8 English in Europe and the postmodernist paradigm -- 3.9 Summary: No more standards? -- 4.1 Globalization and the contribution of Applied Linguistics -- 4.2 Language and social class in Europe -- 4.3 Language policy making -- 4.3.1 Overview and key issues -- 4.3.2 EU Language Policy and English -- 4.3.3 Policies in the European Higher Education Arena -- 4.4 Domain Loss: the rise and demise of a concept -- 4.5 Parallel Language Use -- 4.6 ‘Top down’ and ‘bottom up’ influences and behaviours -- 5.1 Quantitative and qualitative approaches to the use of English in Europe -- 5.2 Corpus analysis -- 5.3 Language policy and language planning [LPP]: the development of the discipline -- 5.4 Economic research on English in Europe -- 5.5 Language Management and Language Management Theory [LMT] -- 6. The Nordic experience -- 7. The way ahead -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching or just learning more about the changing role and status of English across Europe. The status of English today is explained in its historical context before the authors present some of the key debates and ideas relating to the challenge English poses for learners, teachers, and language policy makers.
Titolo autorizzato: Investigating English in Europe  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5015-0056-2
1-61451-895-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796576403321
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Serie: Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ; ; Volume 10.