: David Singleton, Joshua A. Fishman, Larissa Aronin, Muiris Ó Laoire
: Current Multilingualism A New Linguistic Dispensation
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781614512813
: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 124.30
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 382
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< doctype html public '-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en'>< >This volume approaches current multilingualism as a new linguistic dispensation, in urgent need of research-led, reflective scrutiny. The book addresses the emergent global and local patterns of multingual use and acquisition across the world and explores the major trends that characterize today's multilingualism. Its fifteen chapters discuss a range of issues relating to the quintessential and unique properties of multilingual situations.

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D. Singleton, Trinity College;J. Fishman, Yeshiva University;L. Aronin, Oranim College;M. Ó Laoire /STRONG>, AUT.
Introduction7
Current multilingualism: A new linguistic dispensation9
I Language teaching and language learning31
1 Global English: Central or Atypical Form of SLA?33
2 Faraway, so close: Trilingualism in the Basque Autonomous Community and Malta from a socio-educational perspective51
3 Issues in all-Irish education: Strengthening the case for comparative immersion75
4 Informal bilingual acquisition: Dynamic spaces for language education105
II Social aspects of current multilingualism125
5 Minority language use in Ireland: The time dimension127
6 Mapping increasing linguistic diversity in multicultural Europe and abroad145
7 Multilingual attitudes and attitudes to multilingualism in Croatia169
8 Emerging and conflicting forces of polyphony in the Berlin speech community after the fall of the wall: On the social identity of adolescents193
9 Multilingualism in Morocco and the linguistic features of the Casablanca variety237
10 Multilingualism in Sweden253
III Language Policy277
11 Language planning for a decimated and often forgotten non-territorial tongue279
12 Endangered languages and endangered archives in the Russian Federation285
13 Linguistic quandary in multilingual Malaysia: Socio-political issues, language policy, educational changes303
14 Managing language diversity in the Irish health services323
15 Slipping between policy and management: (De)centralized responses to linguistic diversity in Ethiopia and South Africa345
Index379