00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862157677 Buklod 20240215113431.0 g||| | || || ta 190216s2018 xx a rb |001 0|eng d 9780198791119 (pbk.) (iLib)UPBAG-00032979070 BC-70649 Fastbooks Educational Supply, Inc. Php2,200.00 DLLA Faculty OLC BAG rda eng LC 3715 C68 2018 Coulmas, Florian author. An introduction to multilingualism language in a changing world Florian Coulmas. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2018. xix, 320 pages illustrations 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Oxford textbooks in linguistics Includes bibliographical references and indexes. The polyphonic world -- Multilingualism is ... : twenty definitions and more -- Descriptive and theoretical concepts -- Power, inequality, and language -- The polyglot individual -- Multilingual (international) institutions -- Talk of the town : language in super-diverse cities -- Multilingual (multiethnic) countries -- Diversity in cyberspace : the multilingual internet -- Integration and separation : language -- Integration and separation : society -- Research methods for investigating multilingualism. This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, Florian Coulmas systematically explores multilingualism with respect to the individual, institutions, cities, nations, and cyberspace. In each of these domains, the dynamics of language choice are undergoing changes as a result of economic, political, and cultural forces. Against this background, two chapters discuss the effects of linguistic diversity on the integration and separation of language and society, before a final chapter describes and assesses research methods for investigating multilingualism. Each chapter concludes with problems and questions for discussion, which place the topic in a real-world context. The book explores where, when, and why multilingualism came to be regarded as a problem, and why it presents a serious challenge for linguistic theory today. It provides the basic tools to analyse different kinds of multilingualism at both the individual and society level, and will be of interest to students of linguistics, sociology, education, and communication studies. -- From publisher's website. Multilingualism. Education, Bilingual. Sociolinguistics. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN LC 3715 C68 2018 Book