Displacement, language maintenance and identity : Sudanese refugees in Australia /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hatoss, Anikó
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Series:Impact, studies in language and society ; 34.
Subjects:
Language maintenance.
Language and culture.
Sudanese > Australia.
Refugees > Australia.
Intercultural communication.
Multilingualism.
Langage et culture.
Soudanais > Australie.
Réfugiés > Australie.
Multilinguisme.
17.23 multilingual sociolinguistics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
Language maintenance
Multilingualism
Refugees
Sudanese
Australia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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