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Multilingual global cities : Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai / edited by Peter Siemund & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge multilingual Asia series.
- Routledge multilingual Asia series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Sociological aspects--Case studies.
- Cities and towns.
- Multilingualism--Case studies.
- Multilingualism.
- English language--Variation--Case studies.
- English language.
- Language and culture--Case studies.
- Language and culture.
- English language--Variation.
- Cities and towns--Sociological aspects.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Peter Siemund has been Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germanysince 2001. He pursues a cross-linguistic typological approach in his work on reflexivity and self-intensifiers, pronominal gender, interrogative constructions, speech acts and clause types, argument structure, tense and aspect, varieties of English, language contact, and multilingual development. His publications include, as author, Pronominal gender in English: A study of English varieties from a cross-linguistic perspective (2008), The amazing world of Englishes. A practical introduction (with Julia Davydova and Georg Maier, 2012), Varieties of English: A typological approach (2013), and Speech acts and clause types: English in a cross-linguistic context (2018), and, as editor, Language contact and contactlanguages (with Noemi Kintana, 2008), Linguistic universals and language variation (2011), and Foreign language education in multilingual classrooms (with Andreas Bonnet, 2018). Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His research focusses on world Englishes and on English in multilingual contexts. He is the author of Singapore English: Variation, structure, and use (2013) and Language planning and policy in Quebec: A comparative perspective (2019).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Multilingual global cities
- ISBN:
- 9780429463860
- 0429463863
- 9780429873904
- 0429873905
- 9780429873911
- 0429873913
- 9780429873898
- 0429873891
- Publisher Number:
- 40030462712
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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