Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change

Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change
Author: Rakhmiel Peltz
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1853599026
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This short volume provides a comprehensive and synoptic view of Joshua A. Fishman's contributions to international sociolinguistics. The two integrative essays provide readers with the essential understandings of Fishmanian sociolinguistics and his contributions to Yiddish scholarship. An up-to-date comprehensive bibliography prepared by Gella Schweid Fishman, as well as Fishman's own concluding sentiments, complement the integrative essays.

English Language as Hydra

English Language as Hydra
Author: Vaughan Rapatahana
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847697496
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English Language as Hydra argues that, far too often, the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. This book brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this enormous Hydra in action on four continents.

Philippine English

Philippine English
Author: MA. Lourdes S. Bautista
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9622099475
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An overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.

Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific

Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific
Author: Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599212
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This volume covers the language situation in Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context.

Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century

Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century
Author: Jacomine Nortier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015-03-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1107016983
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This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

Sociolinguistics Today (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)

Sociolinguistics Today (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)
Author: Kingsley Bolton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131793220X
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This collection of essays developed out of a conference held in Hong Kong in 1988. The aim was to provide a forum for an exchange of views between academics working within the field of sociolinguistics, in particular between those working in the West and those working in the East. Sociolinguistics Today has taken this aim a step further to produce an overview of contemporary research into sociolinguistics worldwide. The book contains articles by acknowledged leaders in the study of language and society, and the presence of sociolinguists working in Asia provides a new and exciting challenge to the hitherto western-dominated field. The comprehensive study of Asian sociolinguistics is unique and engages with the non-Asian contributions to great effect. The range of contributors reinforces the international emphasis of the book.