Weber, Jean-Jacques.

Introducing multilingualism: a social approach/ jean-Jacques Weber, Kristine Horner. - London: Routledge, 2014. - x, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Part I 1. Introduction

2. Theoretical and methodological framework

Part II: Multilingualism within and across languages

3. What is a language?

4. Language variation and the spread of global languages

5. Revitalization of endangered languages Part III: Societal and individual multilingualism

6. Societal multilingualism

7. Language and identities

8. The interplay between individual and societal multilingualism

Part IV: Multilingual education

9. Flexible vs fixed multilingualism

10. Mother tongue education or literacy bridges?

11. Heritage language education

Part V: Critical analysis of discourses

12. Institutional discourses on language and migration

13. Media representations of multilingualism

14. Linguistic landscape

Part VI: Conclusion

Notes on the Activities Author

Index

Subject Index


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Multilingualism--Social aspects
Sociolinguistics

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