Handbook of language and communication: diversity and change
By: edited by / Marlis Hellinger, Anne Pauwels.
Contributors: Hellinger, Marlis.; Pauwels, Anne.
Series: Handbooks of applied linguistics -- 9
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 786
ISBN-13: 9783110182170
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Language and languages -- Variation; Linguistics minorities; Language planning; Linguistic change
Description: Focuses on language-related problems arising in the context of linguistic diversity and change, and the contributions Applied Linguistics can offer for solutions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regional and immigrant minority languages in Europe / Guus Extra and Durk Gorter; title: Immigrant language minorities in the United States / Terrence G. Wiley; title: Immigrant minorities: Australia / Antonia Rubino; title: Linguistic diversity: Africa / Jan Blommaert; title: Linguistic diversity: Asia / Vanithamani Saravanan; title: Language contact, culture and ecology / Alwin Fill; title: Models and approaches in language policy and planning / Thomas Ricento; title: Back from the brink: the revival of endangered languages / John Edwards; title: Economics and language policy / François Grin; title: Language and colonialism / Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise; title: Linguistic imperialism? English as a global language / Andy Kirkpatrick; title: Language planning and language rights / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; title: Language and education / Markus Bieswanger; title: Forensic linguistics / John Gibbons; title: Language and religion / Susanne Mühleisen; title: Language, war, and peace / William C. Gay; title: Language and science / Augusto Carli and Emilia Calaresu; title: Multilingualism on the Internet / Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring; title: Attitudes to language and communication / Cindy Gallois and Bernadette Watson and Madeleine Brabant; title: Language, racism, and ethnicity / Thomas Paul Bonfiglio; title: Language and sexism / Marlis Hellinger and Anne Pauwels; title: Linguistic diversity and language standardization / Suzanne Romaine; title: Borrowing as language conflict / Manfred Görlach; title: Political correctness and freedom of speech / Mary Talbot.