Displacement, language maintenance and identity : Sudanese refugees in Australia /
This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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Colección: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
34. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Communities in transition
- The ecology of immigrant languages
- The ethnolinguistic study
- Language policy context
- Displacement
- Languages lost and gained in transition
- New spaces of multilingualism in Australia
- Constructing identities
- Projecting the future
- Micro-level language planning.