Language Maintenance and Shift

Language Maintenance and Shift

Author: Anne Pauwels

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1107043697

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A comprehensive discussion of the key aspects of this important sub-field of language contact and multilingualism studies.


Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity

Displacement, Language Maintenance and Identity

Author: Anikó Hatoss

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2013-12-15

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9027271003

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This monograph presents an ecological perspective to the study of language maintenance and shift in immigrant contexts. The ecology incorporates past, present and future and treats spatial and temporal dimensions as the main organizing frames in which everyday language use and identity development can be explored. The methods combine a quantitative domain-based sociolinguistic survey with discourse analytic approaches. The novel approach is valuable for fellow researchers working in interdisciplinary fields of language maintenance, language shift, multilingualism andlanguage planning in migration contexts. The ecological perspective adds to sociolinguistic theories of globalization and responds to current dynamics of translocality in modern immigrant contexts. The research presents language use and language planning efforts in the Sudanese community of Australia. Language, culture, race and ethnic identity are explored in unique sociolinguistic contexts using an emic research lens and giving voice to the participants.


Migration, Multiculturalism and Language Maintenance in Australia

Migration, Multiculturalism and Language Maintenance in Australia

Author: Beata Leuner

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9783039115136

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Analyses 'push' and 'pull' factors for migration from Poland to Australia and examines the costs of migration; Polish migrants' experiences of Australia's multicultural policy; an evaluation of parent's migration by their children' re-migration to Poland and much more. Beata Leuner, Monash University.


Community Languages

Community Languages

Author: Michael G. Clyne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780521397292

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Without even considering the 150 Aboriginal languages still spoken, Australia has an unparalleled mix of languages other than English in common usage, languages often described by the term 'community'. Drawing on census data and other statistics, this book addresses the current suitation of community languages in Australia, analysing which are spoken, by whom, and whereabouts. It focuses on three main issues: how languages other than English are maintained in an English speaking environment, how the structure of the languages themselves changes over time, and how the government has responded to such ethnolinguistic diversity. At a time of unprecedented awareness of these languages within society and a realisation of the importance of mutlilingualism in business, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the role of community languages in shaping the future of Australian society.


Pluricentric Languages in an Immigrant Context

Pluricentric Languages in an Immigrant Context

Author: Michael Clyne

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-10-31

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 3110805448

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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.


Language in Australia

Language in Australia

Author: Suzanne Romaine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780521339834

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Linguists and non-linguists will find in this volume a guide and reference source to the rich linguistic heritage of Australia.


The Australian People

The Australian People

Author: James Jupp

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 1014

ISBN-13: 0521807891

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Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. From its ancient indigenous origins to British colonisation followed by waves of European then international migration in the twentieth century, the island continent is home to people from all over the globe. Each new wave of settlers has had a profound impact on Australian society and culture. The Australian People documents the dramatic history of Australian settlement and describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributions of its people. It is one of the largest reference works of its kind, with approximately 250 expert contributors and almost one million words. Illustrated in colour and black and white, the book is both a comprehensive encyclopedia and a survey of the controversial debates about citizenship and multiculturalism now that Australia has attained the centenary of its federation.