Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community

Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community
Author: Dalit Assouline
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501505289

This book presents the role of ideology in language contact situations and the scope of its influence on linguistic behavior. It will also provide an important addition to the field of Yiddish linguistics.

Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community

Contact and Ideology in a Multilingual Community
Author: Dalit Assouline
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501505300

This book presents the role of ideology in language contact situations and the scope of its influence on linguistic behavior. It will also provide an important addition to the field of Yiddish linguistics.

The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism

The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism
Author: Annick De Houwer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781107179219

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.

Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities

Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities
Author: Gillian Sankoff
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027218633

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

Exploring Multilingual Hawai'i

Exploring Multilingual Hawai'i
Author: Scott Saft
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498561195

Employing an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, Exploring Multilingual Hawaiʻi examines situated language usage and underlying ideological beliefs to explore and understand Hawaiʻi’s multilingualism. This book begins with a description of the ideologies that developed as a result of contact with the West and then offers analyses that concentrate specifically on the roles of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, and the languages of Micronesia, and also the occurrence of language mixing in Hawaiian society. Scott Saft’s discussion and analysis underscore how continued exploration of language usage in Hawaiʻi can contribute to our general understanding of multilingualism as a dynamic phenomenon.

Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism

Indigenous Youth and Multilingualism
Author: Leisy T. Wyman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136327312

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important implications for language planning and policy and for projects designed to curtail language loss. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars with longstanding ties to language planning efforts in diverse Indigenous communities examine language policy and planning as de facto and de jure – as covert and overt, bottom-up and top-down. This approach illuminates crosscutting themes of language identity and ideology, cultural conflict, and linguistic human rights as youth negotiate these issues within rapidly changing sociolinguistic contexts. A distinctive feature of the book is its chapters and commentaries by Indigenous scholars writing about their own communities. This landmark volume stands alone in offering a look at diverse Indigenous youth in multiple endangered language communities, new theoretical, empirical, and methodological insights, and lessons for intergenerational language planning in dynamic sociocultural contexts.

Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms

Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms
Author: Bhusal, Ashok
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799833410

While standard language ideology (SLI) is harmful in its exclusion of minorities through expression of language and race, translingualism provides a positive scaffolding characterized by the disposition of openness. Translingualism suggests that each utterance creates meaning and is a direct rebellion against SLI. It privileges unprivileged varieties of English over so-called Standard English. In order to combat SLI, scholars have emphasized the need for congenial multicultural spaces where students can use their cultural and linguistic resources as an asset and which supports the idea of students learning from each other through their diversity. Teaching Practices and Language Ideologies for Multilingual Classrooms is an essential scholarly publication that examines the educational necessities for diverse student populations and multilingual students and provides rich teaching resources for guiding the creation of classroom environments that engage multilingual students and support their writing and problem-solving skills. Featuring a range of topics such as ethics, code-switching, and language education, this book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, academicians, sociologists, administrators, language professionals, researchers, and students.

How We Talk about Language

How We Talk about Language
Author: Betsy Rymes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108488315

With examples of conversation, this book is a lively account of social and intellectual import of everyday talk about language.

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
Author: Annelies Kusters
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501510096

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.

Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru

Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru
Author: Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783094249

This book explores the role of language academies in preserving and revitalizing minority or endangered languages. This book would appeal to anyone studying the history of the Quechua language, as well as to those studying broader issues of indigenous language planning and policy, maintenance and revitalization.