THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES A PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY WHICH WAS COMPILED FOR A SOCIOLINGUISTICS SEMINAR HELD AT THE LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, IN THE SUMMER OF 1964 AND AN ADDENDUM ADDED IN MAY 1967. THE PRIMARY EMPHASIS IS ON LANGUAGE IN ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL PHENOMENA. THE MAIN AREAS COVERED ARE (1) LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY, (2)…

This select bibliography contains 286 titles, 188 of which are annotated. Works published before 1967 were eliminated. While language teaching is a major concern, all aspects of education in a multilingual environment have been included. Entries are arranged in eight categories: (1) general, including reference works; (2) language; (3)…

Critically examines contemporary interactional studies of the cultural specificity of human language. The study is a cross-cultural analysis of misconstrued communications in human interaction, ascertaining whether these interactions are crucially dependent on nonlinguistic variables. (CB)

Despite its clear advantages, international broadcasting is a neglected technology in the promotion and learning of foreign languages. With good electronic reception and, thus, effective listening, the potential usefulness is great in the areas of oral receptive language skills, language acquisition, and cross-cultural understanding. (SL)

This paper presents an argument that language-use in multilingual mathematics classrooms in South Africa is as much a function of politics as it is of cognition and communication. It draws from a wider study focusing on language practices in intermediate multilingual mathematics classrooms in South Africa. In the study the notion of cultural…

Introduces this special issue of the journal. All of the articles but one were presented in a colloquium at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism at the University of the West of England. The theme of the conference was the multilingual classroom and specifically the complex interrelationships, interactions, and ideologies within such…

The ideology of a monolingual and monoracial Japan is being challenged by increasing language diversity in communities where Ainu, Ryukyuan, Chinese, English, Japanese Sign Language, Korean, and other languages are spoken. Government policies and school textbooks still resist the notion of a multilingual Japan. (SK)

South Africa's new language policy recognizes 11 official languages. For a multilingual policy to succeed in education requires flexibility for provinces, schools, and classrooms to implement it to meet the needs of specific populations. (SK)

Reviews work on language contact phenomena in advertising. More emphasis is being placed on multilingual discourses in advertising and the ways in which these index identities, both of the products and services with which multiple cods are associated and of the consumers who peruse them. Also examines the various functions of different contact…

Offers lessons learned about working in multicultural and multilingual environments: (1) carefully plan communication requiring interpreters/translators; (2) strive for mutual knowledge creation; and (3) allow for sufficient time and process in workshops to support participants' need for clarification. (JOW)

Discusses various language border theories for the Belgian-Northern French area, and summarizes the results of 40 years of research into the development of the Romance-Germanic language border at large. Suggests that a late Roman Latin-Germanic opposition has functioned as a direct predisposition for the early medieval Romance-Germanic language…

Discusses transformation of the French language policy in Europe that in which the overt promotion of French as the European lingua franca was replaced with new policy promoting multilingualism. Examines the new policy in terms of its intentions and it effectiveness as an identity strategy. Suggests that not only does the policy exclude regional…

This report discusses the results of a questionnaire designed to determine how multilingual speakers in the Singapore context express their social identities through language; how they relate to their languages; and how they perceive the various English accents to which they are exposed. (34 references) (VWL)

Describes language policy under Franco, discusses the Catalan government's policies on language, contends that Catalan policies on language are morally permissible in a liberal-democratic society, and recommends the Catalan model for bi- or multilingual settings where governments want to be liberal but do not want or cannot afford going into a…

Juxtaposes postmodernist discourses on language, identity, and cultural power with historical forms of language inequalities grounded in the nation-state. Focuses on mixed legacies of language-state relations within the pluralist nation state, colonial and post-colonial language policies. Examines the concept of linguistic minority rights beyond…