Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:29:37 +0000 From: Julia.Ulrich <Julia.UlrichdeGruyter.com> Subject: Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism
Title: Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism
Series Title: Contributions to the Sociology of Language
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
http://www.degruyter.de/hling.html
Editor: Jean-Marc Adrien Dewaele
Editor: Alex Housen
Editor: Li Wei
Hardback: ISBN: 3110173050, Pages: 346, Price: Euro 98.00 / sFr 157,/
approx. US$ 98.00
Abstract:
This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of
bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges
bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this
volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future
research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which
have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial
nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars
who have researched and published extensively in the field of
bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised
in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading
attached to each of the main chapters.Introduction: Opportunities and
Challenges of Bilingualism, Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele and Alex Housen
I Theoretical frameworks
"Holy languages" in the context of societal bilingualism,
Joshua Fishman
Forlorn hope?
John Edwards
When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a
cure?
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Core values and nation states
J.J. Smolicz
II Bilingualism worldwide
French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme or economic
determinism?
Harold Schiffman
The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey
data from European language boundaries
Peter Nelde and Peter Weber
Language shift among Siberian Estonians
Juri Viikberg,
On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and other changing status
Damir Kalogjera
Ethnolects - between bilingualism and urban dialect
Wolfgang Woelck
The development of Navajo-English language bilingualism
Bernard Spolsky
Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: The discourse of the
"Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua"
Tim Marr
Xhosa as a "home appliance"? A case of language shift in Grahamstown
Vivian de Klerk
Japan's nascent multilingualism
Florian Coulmas and Makoto Watanabe
III. Multilingual management and education
Managing multilingualism in Singapore
Xu Daming and Li Wei
Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between
universities and their language environment
Bjoern H. Jernudd
Coda
Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism
William Mackey