Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter 2002
Series:Contributions to the sociology of language 87
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism""; ""I. Theoretical frameworks""; ""â€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 contra""""On 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 â€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 environment""""Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students""; ""Coda""; ""Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism""; ""Index""
Physical Description:xii, 346 pages :
ISBN:9783110852004
3110852004
3110173050
9783110173055

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