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Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Li, Wei, 1961 August 11-, Dewaele, Jean-Marc, 1962-, Housen, Alex, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
Colección:Contributions to the sociology of language ; 87.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism
  • I. Theoretical frameworks
  • “Holy languagesâ€? in the context of societal bilingualism
  • Forlorn hope?
  • When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios
  • Core values and nation-states
  • II. Bilingualism worldwide
  • French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism?
  • The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries
  • Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contraOn attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status
  • Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect
  • The development of Navajo-English bilingualism
  • Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua
  • Xhosa as a “home applianceâ€?? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown
  • Japanâ€?s nascent multilingualism
  • III. Multilingual management and education
  • Managing multilingualism in Singapore
  • Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environmentUsing descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students
  • Coda
  • Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism
  • Index