Multilingualism
This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book's focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is very wide-ranging. It deals with both bilingualism and polyglottism, at the level of the individual speaker as well as at the societal level. The volume addresses not only linguistic facets of multil…
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- Full title :Multilingualism.
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This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book's focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is very wide-ranging. It deals with both bilingualism and polyglottism, at the level of the individual speaker as well as at the societal level. The volume addresses not only linguistic facets of multilingualism but also multilingualism's cultural, sociological, educational, and psychological dimension.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Chapter 7. Classifications of multilinguals, multilingual contexts and languages in multilingual env.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027274984, 9027274983
- oclc:ocn775302011
- LC Classification:P115 .A74 2012
- Dewey Decimal:404.2
Table of Contents
Multilingualism; Editorial page; Title page; LCC Data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; What this book is about; What is multilingualism? Terminology and definitions; The structure of the book; Chapter 2. Multilingualism: Some preliminary considerations; Human language, communication in other species and multilingualism; Language as a unique human possession; Use of the vocal-auditory channel; Arbitrariness; Semanticity; Cultural transmission; Duality (or double articulation); Displacement; Structure dependence.
Creativity (or open-endedness or productivity)Language as a tool and language as ability; Societal awareness of language and languages; Chapter 3. Multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation; The globalization phenomenon; Globalization and language use; Time, space and technology; Mobility and flux, borders and exclusions; Recognition of the ubiquity of contemporary multilingualism; The new linguistic dispensation; Scale and significance; Two trends; The properties and developmental directions of the new linguistic dispensation; Suffusiveness; Complexity; Liminality.
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