Becoming Multilingual by Konrad Bergmeister
Research into the complex phenomenon of multilingualism is rapidly increasing. This book looks at multilingualism through its interfaces with language policies, language attitudes and issues of language awareness and identity. The aim is to examine the dynamic processes that lead or hinder the development of such phenomena. One of the scopes of the volume is to represent the complexity of the multilingual speaker by shedding light on different multilingual settings in the world. The chapters of this volume tackle the topic from a sociolinguistic perspective by showing how multilingualism is dynamically constructed. They provide empirical research on language learning in different multilingual environments in the world as well as practical suggestions for the investigation of multilingualism and the improvement of its education.
This volume is highly recommended to postgraduate and senior researchers alike, and will bring the reader up to date with the most recent developments in this exciting field(Nicola Carty, The Linguist List)
Cecilia Varcasia holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics. She is a Research Fellow at the Language Study Unit of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Her research focuses on multilingual communication, discourse and conversation analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics and corpus linguistics. She has co-edited Corpora, Discorso e Stile. Corpora, Discourse & Style.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783034306874 |
| ISBN 10 | 3034306873 |
| Title | Becoming Multilingual |
| Author | Maurizio Gotti |
| Series | Linguistic Insights |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Year published | 2011-07-28 |
| Number of pages | 213 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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