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Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110852004
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Opportunities and Challenges of BilingualismDDC classification:
  • 404/.2
LOC classification:
  • P115 -- .O67 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism -- I. Theoretical frameworks -- "Holy languages" 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 "home appliance"? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown -- Japan'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.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism -- I. Theoretical frameworks -- "Holy languages" 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 "home appliance"? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown -- Japan'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.

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