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Alexandre Duchene - Language, Migration and Social Inequalities - 9781783091003 - V9781783091003
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Language, Migration and Social Inequalities

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Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. A new social order resulting from neoliberal economic practices, globalisation and outsourcing also challenges traditional ways the nation-state has organized its control over the people who have typically travelled to a new country looking for work or better life chances. This collection provides an account of the ways language addresses core questions concerning power and the place of migrants in various ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783091003
SKU
V9781783091003
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Alexandre Duchene
Alexandre Duchêne is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Fribourg and Director of the Institute of Multilingualism of the University and HEP Fribourg (Switzerland). Recent publications include Ideologies across Nations (2008), Discourses of Endangerment (with Monica Heller, 2007) and Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit (with Monica Heller, 2011). Melissa Moyer is Professor of English ... Read more

Reviews for Language, Migration and Social Inequalities
This stimulating volume brings together classic strands of critical sociolinguistic work on how immigrants are disadvantaged in social gatekeeping institutions and the contemporary sociolinguistics of globalization. Taking a broad view of 'migrants' as sociolinguistically mobile citizens, the authors mobilize an impressive array of ideological, political and economic frameworks to explore the continuing power of institutions to confer and withhold status ... Read more

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