Aspects of Multilingualism in European Border Regions
Author: Andrea Abel
Publisher: Accademia Europea di Bolzano
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
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Language Contact and Bilingualism
Author: René Appel
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9053568573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens – sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically – when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? Although most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life, the approach to the study of language has usually been that monolingualism is the norm. The recent interest in bilingualism and language contact has led to a number of new approaches, based on research in communities in many different parts of the world. This book draws together this diverse research, looking at examples from many different situations, to present the topic in any easily accessible form. Language contact is looked at from four distinct perspectives. The authors consider bilingual societies; bilingual speakers; language use in the bilingual community; finally language itself (do languages change when in contact with each other? Can they borrow rules of grammar, or just words? How can new languages emerge from language contact?). The result is a clear, concise synthesis offering a much-needed overview of this lively area of language study.
Bilingualism
Author: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780905028637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised edition of a major textbook provides an introduction to the queries that arise in connection with bilingualism and the effect it has on the personality. It underlines the normality of speaking and using more than one language and aims to dispel many myths and fears. It should interest all types of reader - parents, educators and policy makers, as well as language specialists.
Evaluating Second Language Education
Author: J. Charles Alderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-02-27
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780521422697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Counter Responsibility for planning language teaching programs now carries with it a strong element of accountability. Evaluation of the whole process of course design, development, and implementation is therefore a necessary area of activity for course designers, language planners, and researchers. This book brings together accounts of recent work in this increasingly important field and will be a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training. Part One presents a review of the literature, covering past developments in the wider field of educational evaluation, as well as specifically in second language education. Part Two contains a series of eight original case-studies, written by scholars involved in evaluations in widely divergent settings. The focus in each case is on how the evaluator addresses the difficulties central to each study, and the findings are also included. The final Part Three provides practical guidance for evaluators, offering suggestions about how to set up and carry out evaluations in any given setting."--Publisher's website.
Current Research in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Author: Piotr Romanowski
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-07-24
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 331992396X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of bilingualism. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the field. Part I focuses on the numerous and heterogeneous relations between languages as well as the implications arising from bilingual speech processing. In Part II, a series of contextualized studies on bilingual classrooms are presented, with diverse research designs applied in different educational settings being a key feature of these studies. Part III bridges theory and practice by offering an insight into mono- and multilingual school settings showcasing examples of educational institutions where bilingualism successfully soared and depicts the needs related to language education.
Linguistic Concepts
Author: Kenneth Lee Pike
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book will introduce linguistics and tagmemics to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and other social sciences. It explains the concerns of linguistics, locates linguistics in that much larger field of human behavior that other disciplines share, and presents language from a vantage that acknowledges their particular concerns."--Back cover.
Aspects of Bilingualism
Author: Michel Paradis
Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : Hornbeam Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproaches to Grammaticalization
Author: Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9027228957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.
Alien Tongues
Author: Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPidgin and Creole Languages
Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1315504960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.
