Tackling the language issues facing an increasingly diverse nation, this volume draws on the disciplines of linguistics, history and sociology in its analysis. It offers opposing viewpoints on matters of language diversity and argues convincingly in its favour.
This book approaches multilingualism in economic perspective. It explains how the linkages between linguistic and economic dimensions can be studied systematically, showing that foreign language skills are not only profitable for the individual worker, but can serve the performa…
Examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. This work is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and…
Forlagets beskrivelse: Die Mehrsprachigkeit der Schüler ist eine Chance, wenn es gelingt, alle ihre Sprachen auf einem hohen Niveau zu fördern. Perspektive dieses Buches ist die Konzeption einer schulformübergreifenden Didaktik der Mehrsprachigkeit. Dazu werden neueste didaktisc…
The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of the field of multilingualism for a global readership, and an overview of the research which situates multilingualism in its social, cultural and political context. The handbook includes an introduction …