Author : Martin Kasper
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112481666
Author : Steven L. Danver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1317464001
This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.
Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110813246
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Carl Skutsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135193886
This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.
Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137348399
This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this region, which is also home to most of the world’s Slavic-speakers. This volume presents and analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. The overview concludes with a reflection on the recent rise of Slavophone speech communities in Western Europe and Israel. The book brings together renowned international scholars who offer a variety of perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy, making this book of great interest to historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies.
Author : T. Kamusella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1167 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0230583474
This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.
Author : Christina Gitsaki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443806447
The emergence of globalisation is bringing massive changes to all aspects of life, including language. In an effort to raise awareness on the effects of globalisation on language learning and teaching, the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) devoted its 31st Annual Congress to this theme. This volume represents a collection of papers by academics in Australia, South-East Asia, New Zealand, Europe and North America, which synthesize language learning and teaching theories and current research to present the views of applied linguists and language educators on a variety of issues with regards to the tensions that globalisation and internationalisation bring on language and languages. A total of twenty-two articles discuss issues related to the status of the ELT profession in a globalised world, issues of ESL teaching and language assessment, the ever increasing use of ICTs for foreign language learning, and the effects of globalisation on minority languages. This collection of articles attempts to integrate theoretical issues, research findings, and practical applications on different aspects of TESOL to provide academics, researchers, students and language educators with a discussion of the current state of affairs in the field of applied linguistics with regards to globalisation.
Author : Jeffrey E. Cole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1598843036
This comprehensive survey of ethnic groups of Europe reveals the dynamic process of ethnic identity and the relationship of ethnic groups to modern states. Part of a five-volume series on ethnic groups around the world, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia provides detailed descriptions of more than 100 European ethnic and national groups. Each entry provides an overview of the group as well as in-depth information on the group's origins and early history, cultural life, and recent developments. Among the information presented for each group are global and national population figures and accounts of geographical distribution, diaspora populations, the group's historic homeland, predominant religions and languages, and related groups. The entries also highlight places, people, and events of particular importance to each group, and sidebars introduce related topics of interest. Throughout the text, special attention is focused on the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism. An explanation of the methodology used for selecting the ethnic groups in the encyclopedia is also provided, as is an introductory essay on the topic of ethnicity in Europe.
Author : Brad K. Blitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521677738
A contemporary history of the Balkans from the break-up of Yugoslavia to the present day, first published in 2006.
Author : Konstanze Glaser
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853599328
This book engages critically with debates about linguistic continuity and cultural survival in relation to Europe's authochthonous minorities. Focusing on Scotland's Gaels and Lusatia's Sorbs/Wends, it analyses and evaluates competing assumptions, rationales and ideologies which have shaped previous and present language revitalisation initiatives and that continue to pose dilemmas to language planners and politicians in the UK, Germany and beyond.
