Languages in Contact

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Lim is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Language and Communication programme at the University of Hong Kong. She co-edited The Typology of Asian Englishes (2009) and English in Multilingual, Globalising Asia (2009). She has developed the online resource LinguisticMinorities.HK, for which she won the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2014. Umberto Ansaldo is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His book Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution (Cambridge, 2009) garnered the 2010 faculty research output award. He is co-editor of the Creole Language Library and editor-in-chief of Language Sciences. Klappentext This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication. Zusammenfassung Introducing new insights from popular culture! the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication! this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together findings on multilingualism! code-switching! language endangerment! and globalisation! into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Perspectives on contact; 2. Contact and code choice; 3. Contact and creole formation; 4. Contact and language evolution; 5. Contact and ecology; 6. Contact and shift; 7. Contact and globalisation; 8. Reflections and future directions.

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• Authors: Umberto Ansaldo, Umberto (The University of Hong Kong) Ansaldo, Umberto Lim Ansaldo, Ansaldo Umberto, Lisa Lim, Lisa (The University of Hong Kong) Lim, Lisa (The University of Hong Kong) Ansaldo Lim, Lim Lisa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780521767958
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76795-8
• No. of pages: 251
• Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics; Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Historical and comparative linguistics