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Direct linkHickey, Raymond, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2020
South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are spoken by several millions and used by many more in daily life. This situation provides a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
Yiakoumetti, Androula, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
This volume brings together research carried out in a variety of geographic and linguistic contexts including Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States and explores efforts to incorporate linguistic diversity into education and to "harness" this diversity for learners' benefit. It challenges the largely…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Pidgins, Creoles
Download full textElias-Olivares, Lucia, Ed. – 1983
The role and use of Spanish in the geographic areas outside of the U.S. Southwest are examined in a collection of 16 conference papers. The papers address the general topics of language contact, linguistic variation, sociolinguistic factors, and language maintenance policy, and planning. Among the specific issues discussed are: a dialectology of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Hispanic Americans, Interference (Language), Language Maintenance
Penalosa, Fernando – 1981
This volume is a summary of current knowledge concerning the relationship between social behavior and language behavior. It is intended both for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and for interested laypersons who have no extensive knowledge of either sociology or linguistics. The introduction and ten chapters cover the following topics:…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, Ethnicity, Language, Language Acquisition
Downes, William – 1998
This introduction to sociolinguistics surveys the various ways that language can be studied as a social phenomenon, examining known relationships between language variation and large-scale social factors and showing how this variation runs along "fault lines in social structure," such as divisions between social classes, the sexes, and different…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Scott, Jerrie Cobb, Ed.; Straker, Dolores Y., Ed.; Katz, Laurie, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
How can teachers make sound pedagogical decisions and advocate for educational policies that best serve the needs of students in today's diverse classrooms? What is the pedagogical value of providing culturally and linguistically diverse students greater access to their own language and cultural orientations? This landmark volume responds to the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Language Planning, Language of Instruction
Williamson, Robert C. – 1991
This monograph on minority languages and bilingualism focuses on seven minority languages in different parts of the world, looking at their history and current status, including patterns of usage among samples of their speakers. The first two chapters discuss several issues regarding diglossia and bilingualism, language patterns within societies,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics
de Klerk, Vivian, Ed. – 1996
Essays on English in South Africa and its neighboring countries include: "A History of English in South Africa" (Len Lanham); "English in South African Society: A Preliminary Overview" (Bill Branford); "Black English in South Africa" (David Gough); "Language Contact, Transmission, Shift: South African Indian…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics
Jernudd, Bjorn H.; Garrison, Gary L. – 1975
This is a collection of eight essays dealing with various aspects of language treatment in Egypt. The first essay attempts a tentative typology characterizing the role of the Arabic language as a unifying or divisive force within and among the countries in which it is spoken as a native language. This essay also makes some initial reflections on…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bibliographies, Dialect Studies, Diglossia
Mesthrie, Rajend, Ed. – 2001
This book provides comprehensive information on all aspects of sociolinguistics. It includes 285 articles, of which 80 are short biographical entries. Fifty of the biographies and 42 other articles are entirely new, while the remaining entries are revised and updated from the "Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics." The book provides…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Communication Skills
Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences. Impact Studies in Language and Society.
Putz, Martin, Ed. – 1997
The collection of essays on language contact and language conflict includes: "Language Choices: Contact and Conflict?" (Martin Putz); "Language Ecology: Contact Without Conflict" (Peter Muhlhausler); "Towards a Dynamic View of Multilingualism" (Ulrike Jessner); "A Matter of Choice" (Florian Coulmas); The…
Descriptors: Arabic, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Creoles
Huebner, Thom, Ed.; Davis, Kathryn A., Ed. – 1999
This monograph includes a collection of papers that are an outgrowth of a colloquium on socio-political dimensions of language policy and language planning held at the 1997 American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference. Section 1, "Language Policy/Planning Frameworks," includes: (1) "Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Deaf Interpreting, Diversity (Student), Educational Legislation
Schneider, Edgar W., Ed. – 1996
Essays on varieties of English in the United States include: "Research Trends in the Study of American English" (Edgar W. Schneider); "Piney Woods Southern" (Lee Pederson); "Foundations of American English" (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.); "The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records: The Case of LANCS an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), College Students
