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Beschreibung
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world, bringing in approaches from linguistics, sociology, history, political philosophy, and psychology. It provides the basic tools to analyse different kinds of multilingualism, and suggests questions and problems for discussion at the end of each chapter.
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world, bringing in approaches from linguistics, sociology, history, political philosophy, and psychology. It provides the basic tools to analyse different kinds of multilingualism, and suggests questions and problems for discussion at the end of each chapter.
Über den Autor
Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Duisberg-Essen University. He has previously held teaching and research positions at Georgetown University, Chuo University Tokyo, and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. From 2004 to 2014 he served as Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. His publications include The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems (Blackwell, 1999), Writing and Society (CUP, 2014), and Guardians of Language (OUP, 2016).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Introduction

  • 1: The polyphonic world

  • 2: Multilingualism is...: Twenty definitions - and more

  • 3: Descriptive and theoretical concepts

  • 4: Power, inequality, and language

  • 5: The polyglot individual

  • 6: Multilingual (international) institutions

  • 7: Talk of the town: Language in super-diverse cities

  • 8: Multilingual (multiethnic) countries

  • 9: Diversity in cyberspace: The multilingual Internet

  • 10: Integration and separation: Language

  • 11: Integration and separation: Society

  • 12: Research methods for investigating multilingualism

  • References

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780198791119
ISBN-10: 0198791119
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coulmas
Hersteller: ACADEMIC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 244 x 170 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Coulmas
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.12.2017
Gewicht: 0,591 kg
Artikel-ID: 108826971

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