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

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 1861-0676 ; 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Language maintenance.

Physical Description:

xii, 346 p. : map.

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Contributors

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

I. Theoretical frameworks

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

Forlorn hope? / Edwards, John

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

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

II. Bilingualism worldwide

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

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

Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra / Viikberg, Jüri

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

Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect / Wölck, Wolfgang

The development of Navajo-English bilingualism / Spolsky, Bernard

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

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

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

III. Multilingual management and education

Managing multilingualism in Singapore / Daming, Xu / Wei, Li

Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environment / Jernudd, Björn Η.

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

Coda

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

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110852004

3110852004

OCLC:

979752651