Coulmas

INTRODUCTION TO MULTILINGUALISM OTL C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 770g
• ISBN-13: 9780198791102
• ISBN-10: 0198791100
• Artikelnr.: 48063386

Autorenporträt

Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Duisberg-Essen University. He has previously held teaching and research positions at Georgetown University, Chuo University Tokyo, and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. From 2004 to 2014 he served as Director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. His publications include The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems (Blackwell, 1999), Writing and Society (CUP, 2014), and Guardians of Language (OUP, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: The polyphonic world
2: Multilingualism is...: Twenty definitions - and more
3: Descriptive and theoretical concepts
4: Power, inequality, and language
5: The polyglot individual
6: Multilingual (international) institutions
7: Talk of the town: Language in super-diverse cities
8: Multilingual (multiethnic) countries
9: Diversity in cyberspace: The multilingual Internet
10: Integration and separation: Language
11: Integration and separation: Society
12: Research methods for investigating multilingualism
References