Coulmas

Introduction to Multilingualism Otl P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world, bringing in approaches from linguistics, sociology, history, political philosophy, and psychology. It provides the basic tools to analyse different kinds of multilingualism, and suggests questions and problems for discussion at the end of each chapter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 172mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780198791119
• ISBN-10: 0198791119
• Artikelnr.: 48064101

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