"This textbook introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond a focus on language to examine how the Spanish language is embedded in history and politics, and both reflects and shapes societal views of the lan…
"Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing - an increasingly inescapable feature of our lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continues blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volu…
Annotation Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume off…
Multilingualism in Spain deals with the sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of established and new migrant minority groups in Spain. Three guiding analytical research approaches cut across minorities in Spain: language, migration and discrimination, although not all asp…
"This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as …
Annotation "This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European…
Major versus minor?: languages and literatures in a globalized world
by Goerlandt, Iannis, Sell, Roger D., D'Haen, Theo, Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes, International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Halden
fromFILLM Studies in languages and literatures
Major versus minor?: languages and literatures in a globalized world
by Goerlandt, Iannis, Sell, Roger D., D'Haen, Theo, Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes, International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Halden
fromFILLM Studies in languages and literatures
"Do the notions of "World Lingua Franca" and "World Literature" now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of langu…
"In this book we will explore in detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. More specifically the aim of this book is to describe and analyze language educatio…
The notion of empire is associated with economic and political mechanisms of dominance. For the last decades, however, there has been a lively debate concerning the question whether this concept can be transferred to the field of linguistics, specifically to research on situatio…