TheMultilingual City : Vitality, Conflict and Change /

This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and of its critical importance in and for contemporary cities. It examines how the city has emerged as a key driver of the multilingual future, a concentration of different, changing cultures which somehow manage to create a new identity...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Byrne, Nick (Contribuidor), Carson, Lorna (Contribuidor, Editor ), Cartwright, Sarah (Contribuidor), King, Lid (Contribuidor, Editor ), Little, David (Contribuidor), Sachdev, Itesh (Contribuidor), Skrandies, Peter (Contribuidor), Stoicheva, Maria (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2016]
Temas:
Linguistic change.
Multilingualism > Social aspects.
Urban dialects > Social aspects.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Identity.
Language policy.
Linguistic landscapes.
Migration.
Multilingual city.
Multilingualism.
Urbanism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Maps
  • Introduction: 'Multilingualism is Lived Here'
  • 1. The Vitality of Urban Multilingualism
  • 2. The Sights and Sounds of the Multilingual City
  • 3. Urban Multilingualism: Bond or Barrier?
  • 4. Language Policies and the Politics of Urban Multilingualism
  • 5. Languages at School: A Challenge for Multilingual Cities
  • 6. Multilingual Cities and the Future: Vitality or Decline?
  • LUCIDE City Reports
  • References
  • Index

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