Description for Bilingualism
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; JFFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.
Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403996770
SKU
V9781403996770
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About Monica Heller
JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS Junior Professor on Mediated Communication, University of Hannover, Germany PETER AUER Chair of German Linguistics, Universität Freiburg, Germany BENJAMIN BAILEY Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA EMANUEL DA SILVA University of Toronto, Canada ALEXANDRE DUCHÊNE Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Department of French Linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland PAUL B.GARRETT Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Temple University, ... Read more
Reviews for Bilingualism
'...contain[s] a significant amount of useful and well-researched debate, much of which may be the source of some interesting debates. It is certainly a useable book for the postgraduate researcher at which it is aimed, as well as for the more established academic.' - David Hill, Journal of Sociolinguistics