Multilingualism : Understanding Linguistic Diversity.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Edwards, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Temas:
Multilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages > Variation.
Multilinguisme.
Sociolinguistique.
Variation (Linguistique)
sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Language and languages > Variation
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Prologue ; CHAPTER ONE The Diversity of Languages ; The First Language ; Comparing Languages ; Languages and Language Families ; CHAPTER TWO Interpreting Language Diversity; Dead or Alive ; The Problem of Names ; CHAPTER THREE Multilingual Abilities ; Multilingualism in the World ; Individual Attitudes and Abilities ; Language as a Verb and Other Infelicities ; CHAPTER FOUR The Emergence and Measurement of Multilingualism; The Rise of Multilingualism ; Assessing Multilingualism ; CHAPTER FIVE The Consequences of Babel: Lingua Francas.
  • The Lingua Franca Languages of Wider Communication ; Pidgins and Creoles ; Constructed Languages ; CHAPTER six The Consequences of Babel: Translation ; Translation, Ownership and Secrecy ; Voice Appropriation ; Translation in Practice ; CHAPTER SEVEN Keeping Languages Pure ; Purism and Prescriptivism ; Academies ; Dictionaries ; CHAPTER eight Languages and Identities in Transition ; Languages in Contact ; Language Decline and Maintenance ; Future Directions ; CHAPTER NINE Endangered Languages and the Will to Survive ; What is Language Revival? ; Maintaining Domains of Necessity ; Willingness.
  • CHAPTER TEN Linguistic Intervention and the 'New' Ecology of LanguageScholarship and the Social Life of Language ; The 'New' Ecology of Language ; Epilogue; Notes and References ; Prologue ; Chapter 1: The Diversity of Languages ; Chapter 2: Interpreting Language Diversity ; Chapter 3: Multilingual Abilities ; Chapter 4: The Emergence and Measurement of Multilingualism ; Chapter 5: The Consequences of Babel: Lingua Francas ; Chapter 6: The Consequences of Babel: Translation ; Chapter 7: Keeping Languages Pure ; Chapter 8: Languages and Identities in Transition.
  • Chapter 9: Endangered Languages and the Will to Survive Chapter 10: Linguistic Intervention and the 'New' Ecology of Language ; INDEX.

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