Multilingualism

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Global and Societal Issues in Multilingualism and Trilingualism: 1. Historical perspectives of language contact; 2. Patterns of societal multilingualism; 3. Old and new linguistic minorities; 4. Globalisation, language spread and new multilingualisms; Part II. Construing Individual Multilingualism: 5. Individual multilingualism; 6. Multilingual language competence and use; 7. Accommodating multilingualism; 8. Multilingual education and multilingual literacies; Glossary; References; Index.

About the author

Anat Stavans is a Professor in Applied Linguistics at Beit Berl College and a researcher at the Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Charlotte Hoffmann was formerly Reader in Sociolinguistics at the University of Salford, UK.

Summary

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors such as globalisation and migration. It examines language use in a range of cultural contexts, exploring how children and adults become multilingual and the impact of multilingualism on society and identity.

Additional text

Advance praise: 'The authors of this book demonstrate that multilingualism is as old as humanity itself. Language and politics have always been intertwined, creating amazing and conflictual complexity This is a very clear and highly informative book.' Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Charlotte Anat Hoffmann, Charlotte Hoffmann, &apos Stavans, Anat Stavans, ''Anat Hoffmann Stavans
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107092990
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09299-0
• No. of pages: 319
• Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics; Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Applied linguistics for ELT