Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism / edited by Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, Wei, 1961 August 11-

Dewaele, Jean-Marc, 1962-

Housen, Alex, 1964-

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 87.

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Physical Description:

xii, 346 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism / Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen 1

I. Theoretical frameworks

"Holy languages" in the context of societal bilingualism / Joshua A. Fishman 15

Forlorn hope? / John Edwards 25

When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 45

Core values and nation-states / J. J. Smolicz 69

II. Bilingualism worldwide

French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism? / Harold F. Schiffman 89

The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries / Peter H. Nelde, Peter J. Weber 105

Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra / Juri Viikberg 125

On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status / Damir Kalogjera 145

Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect / Wolfgang Wolck 157

The development of Navajo-English bilingualism / Bernard Spolsky 171

Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua / Tim Marr 199

Xhosa as a "home appliance"? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown / Vivian de Klerk 221

Japan's nascent multilingualism / Florian Coulmas, Makoto Watanabe 249

III. Multilingual management and education

Managing multilingualism in Singapore / Xu Daming, Li Wei 275

Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environment / Bjorn H. Jernudd 297

Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students / Ofelia Garcia, Cecelia Traugh 311

Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism / William F. Mackey 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110173050

OCLC:

49952015