Multilingualism

Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: &apos, Charlotte Anat Hoffmann, Charlotte Hoffmann, Charlotte (University of Salford) Hoffmann, &apos Stavans, Anat Stavans, 'Anat Stavans, Anat Hoffmann Stavans, ''Anat Hoffmann Stavans
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107471481
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47148-1
• No. of pages: 319
• Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics; Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Applied linguistics for ELT