29.896, Books: An Introduction to Multilingualism: Coulmas

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:39:55
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: An Introduction to Multilingualism: Coulmas

 


Title: An Introduction to Multilingualism 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/an-introduction-to-multilingualism-9780198791119 


Author: Florian Coulmas

Paperback: ISBN:  9780198791119 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a
changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human
languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key
question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms
such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the
chapters that follow, Florian Coulmas systematically explores multilingualism
with respect to the individual, institutions, cities, nations, and cyberspace.
In each of these domains, the dynamics of language choice are undergoing
changes as a result of economic, political, and cultural forces. Against this
background, two chapters discuss the effects of linguistic diversity on the
integration and separation of language and society, before a final chapter
describes and assesses research methods for investigating multilingualism.
Each chapter concludes with problems and questions for discussion, which place
the topic in a real-world context.

The book explores where, when, and why multilingualism came to be regarded as
a problem, and why it presents a serious challenge for linguistic theory
today. It provides the basic tools to analyse different kinds of
multilingualism at both the individual and society level, and will be of
interest to students of linguistics, sociology, education, and communication
studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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