Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1 |
Descriptor
Multilingualism | 3 |
Power Structure | 3 |
Foreign Countries | 2 |
Language Attitudes | 2 |
Official Languages | 2 |
Business | 1 |
Cantonese | 1 |
Case Studies | 1 |
Change Agents | 1 |
Change Strategies | 1 |
Chinese | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 3 |
Opinion Papers | 3 |
Reports - Descriptive | 3 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
European Union | 1 |
Gambia | 1 |
Hong Kong | 1 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Thurlow, Crispin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
In the way of commentary, I offer a brief, summative reflection on the complex, multifarious nature of people's semiotic engagements in and with space. Against the backdrop of three snapshot case studies, I suggest there are actually few neat boundaries to be drawn between the linguistic and non-linguistic, between the semiotic and the spatial,…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Case Studies, Creativity, German

Phillipson, Robert; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove – TESOL Quarterly, 1996
Examines the role of English worldwide and introduces paradigms: a "diffusion-of-English paradigm" and an "ecology-of-language paradigm." Discussion of the two paradigms in light of recent tendencies within the European Union, the postcommunist states, and the international arena emphasizes the alliance between language…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language Planning

Tsou, Benjamin K. – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1996
Presents details of the language shifts among the various sections of the Chinese-speaking population in Hong Kong and analyzes patterns of allegiance. Notes that complex social, economic, and political pressures will affect future language in Hong Kong and that, within the domains of family, work, and others, the use of Modern Standard Chinese is…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Change Agents, Chinese, Economic Factors