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Constructing The Heritage Language Learner - Knowledge, Power And New Subjectivities

by Kiri Lee e Neriko Doerr

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 Constructing the Heritage Language Learner
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Youth Language Practices In Africa And Beyond

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 African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book focuses on African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.
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Language Change In Central Asia

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 Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions of socio-cultural capital in Central Asia.
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Diversification Of Mexican Spanish - A Tridimensional Study In New World Sociolinguistics

by Margarita Hidalgo

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 This book covers the analysis of Spanish written from the early 16th to the early 19th century, immediately before the Independent period in most Spanish-speaking colonies. It is based on manuscripts such as the Segunda Carta de Relacion (1522) by H
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Language Change In Central Asia

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 Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about na
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Linguistic Diversity In Europe - Current Trends And Discourses

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 This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), is concerned with European multilingualism both as a political concept and as a social reality.
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Postcolonial Linguistic Voices - Identity Choices And Representations

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 Postcolonial Linguistic Voices
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Multilingual Europe - Facts And Policies

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 Offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages as constituent parts of Europe's identity. This book includes case studies that address facts and policies on multilingualism and plurilingual education.
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Standards And Norms In The English Language

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 A collection that is dedicated to the notions of 'norms' and 'standards' in connection with the English language. It covers topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of English dialects and varieties over time and space and their relation to the standard language.
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Mapping Linguistic Diversity In Multicultural Contexts

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 Within the European context, linguistic diversity can be studied at the level of official state languages and non-national languages. This book offers crossnational and crosscontinental perspectives on non-national languages in terms of regional and immigrant languages. It focuses on mapping linguistic diversity in the private and public domain.
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Language Regimes In Transformation - Future Prospects For German And Japanese In Science, Economy, And Politics

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 Globalization has many faces. One of them is the transformation of language regimes caused by the spread of English. This book provides an account of how two highly developed all-purpose national languages, Japanese and German, are affected by this process.
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'Along The Routes To Power' - Explorations Of Empowerment Through Language

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 It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, code switches, and associated topics.
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Mexican Indigenous Languages At The Dawn Of The Twenty-First Century

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 Examines the processes of external and internal Indianization affecting the early European protagonists and the varied dimensions of language shift and maintenance of the Mexican colonial period. This book explores the reversing language shift (RLS) theory in the Mexican scenario from various viewpoints.
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Sociolinguistics In Japanese Contexts

by Takesi Sibata

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 This text presents a collection of papers by Takesi Sibata, one of the leading linguists in Japan. The book provides an introduction to Japanese sociolinguistics, and shows how it has developed largely independently from the Western tradition.
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Contrastive Sociolinguistics

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 This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of contrastive sociolinguistics. Acclaimed sociolinguists deal with the following areas of research: bilingualism; multilingualism; language planning and language politics; and international discourse analysis.
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Post-Imperial English - Status Change In Former British And American Colonies, 1940-1990

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 This text provides a discussion on the topic of the spread of English in the non-English native-speaking world.
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The Function Of Proverbs In Discourse: The Case Of A Mexican Transnational Social Network

by Elías Domínguez Barajas

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 Examines how thinking, speaking, and interacting influence the construction of meaning among interlocutors.
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Language And Power In The Creation Of The Ussr, 1917-1953

by Michael G. Smith

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 This text looks at language planning in the USSR, covering the formative period under Lenin and Stalin. Based on party and state archival material, the book explores the tension between linguistic russification and nativization of the Soviet experience.
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Multilingualism In China - The Politics Of Writing Reforms For Minority Languages 1949-2002

by Minglang Zhou

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 Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for Chinaâ€™s minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process.
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Undoing And Redoing Corpus Planning

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 A collection of 16 articles on language planning in the wake of socio-political change. Each chapter covers a different language which underwent changes due to deliberate planning which has recently been rescinded or replaced by further planning for socio-political reasons.
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Indigenous Literacies In The Americas - Language Planning From The Bottom Up

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 This volume documents the goals, challenges, and prospects in contemporary efforts to develop literacies in traditionally unwritten languages, using experiences in indigenous language development in the Americas as case studies.
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In Praise Of The Beloved Language - A Comparative View Of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness

by Joshua A. Fishman

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 This text presents an analysis and interpretation of the thematic content of statements of praise and committment pertaining to a sample of vernacular languages from all over the world.
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Two Languages At Work - Bilingual Life On The Production Floor

by Tara Goldstein

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 An ethnography about language use, identity and economic survival and mobility. By examining the context of second language learning, Goldstein challenges researchers and teams to re-examine assumptions about how to best help students in the process of learning a second language.
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Opportunities And Challenges Of Bilingualism

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 This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society.
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