Multilingualism and the periphery

Multilingualism and the periphery

by Kelly-Holmes, Helen Pietikäinen, Sari

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This volume examines the complexities of the processes and practices of multilingualism in a wide range of economic, cultural, political and physical peripheral sites and spaces (tourism, education, indigenous and minority language rights and politics, gender relations, marketing, airports) in different geographic locations (Austria, Canada, Corsica, Catalonia, Finland, Ireland, Patagonia, Spain, Slovenia, U.S.A., Wales).

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  • Full title :Multilingualism and the periphery / edited by Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes.

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This volume examines the complexities of the processes and practices of multilingualism in a wide range of economic, cultural, political and physical peripheral sites and spaces (tourism, education, indigenous and minority language rights and politics, gender relations, marketing, airports) in different geographic locations (Austria, Canada, Corsica, Catalonia, Finland, Ireland, Patagonia, Spain, Slovenia, U.S.A., Wales).

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2013.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (231 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199945184, 0199945187, 0199333173, 9780199333172
  • oclc:ocn848918220
  • LC Classification:P115.45
  • Dewey Decimal:306.44/6

Table of Contents

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""1. Multilingualism and the Periphery""; ""2. Repositioning the Multilingual Periphery: Class, Language, and Transnational Markets in Francophone Canada""; ""3. What Makes Art Acadian?""; ""4. Tourism and Gender in Linguistic Minority Communities""; ""5. Heteroglossic Authenticity in Sámi Heritage Tourism""; ""6. Linguistic Creativity in Corsican Tourist Context""; ""7. �Translation in Progress�: Centralizing and Peripheralizing Tensions in the Practices of Commercial Actors in Minority Language Sites""

8. Welsh Tea: The Centring and Decentring of Wales and the Welsh Language9. The (De- )Centring Spaces of Airports: Framing Mobility and Multilingualism -- 10. The Career of a Diacritical Sign: Language in Spatial Representations and Representational Spaces -- 11. The Peripheral Multilingualism Lens: A Fruitful and Challenging Way Forward? -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- W

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Subjects

Cross-cultural studies Éducation interculturelle -- Études tra… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Multicultural education Multicultural education -- Cross-cultur… Multilingualism Multilingualism -- Cross-cultural studi… Multilingualism -- Social aspects Multilinguisme -- Aspect social Multilinguisme -- Études transculturell… sociolinguistics Sociolinguistique

Writers

Kelly-Holmes, Helen Pietikäinen, Sari

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