27 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

Drawing on four decades of research, Bernard Spolsky presents an updated theory of language policy that starts with the individual speaker instead of the nation.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Headline: Rethinks the presentation of a theory of language policy and management by starting with the individual speaker rather than the nation Blurb: Drawing on four decades of research, Bernard Spolsky reflects on earlier models that he proposed and presents an updated theory of language policy that starts with the individual speaker instead of the nation. In this book, he surveys the language practices, beliefs and planning efforts of in...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Cooper, Robert L. / Spolsky, Bernard -- The wax and wane of Whorfian views / Schlesinger, I. M. -- Linguistic relativity revisited / Macnamara, John -- Cognitive pluralism: A Whorfian analysis / John-Steiner, Vera -- The "mother tongue" / Haugen, Einar -- Linguacentrism and language history / Dorian, Nancy C. -- Cognitive and social correlates of bilinguality / Tucker, G. Richard -- Integrating theory ...

This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey.

This book describes and critically analyses the current status and diversity of secondary English education in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, and Vietnam.

In Asia, English is no longer a foreign language but a key resource for education, government, business and the general public. Whereas thirty years ago, British and American experts believed that the best way to improve the quality of English teaching was to cancel any programs below the secondary level, Asian nations as well as European are now introducing English in primary school. But there are major obstacles to overcome: the training of ...

Jews spent over two thousand years in exile. Although Hebrew remained a sacred and literary language, it formed part of a repertoire which included Jewish varieties of the local language. With the return to Israel, Hebrew was revernacularized. This article traces the sociolinguistic effects of exile and return to the homeland.

Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which various groups of people use language. This book provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the field. It explores how sociolinguistics is linked to other disciplines such as history, politics and gender studies.

This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey.

Bernard Spolsky looks at the many debates at the forefront of language policy in this up-to-date introduction. The topics covered include ideas of correctness and bad language, bilingualism and multilingualism, language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages, language choice as a human and civil right, and language education policy. Spolsky develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it and...

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the 'people.' Making creative connections between existing scholarship in language policy and contemporary theory and research in other social sciences, authors from around the world offer new critical perspectives for analyzing language phenomena and language theories, suggesting new meeting points among lang...

A vivid commentary on Jewish survival and Jewish speech communities, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices.

Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism, this volume focuses on language users, the 'people.' Making creative connections between existing scholarship in language policy and contemporary theory and research in other social sciences, authors from around the world offer new critical perspectives for analyzing language phenomena and language theories, suggesting new meeting points among lang...

Keine Beschreibung.

This book describes and critically analyses the current status and diversity of secondary English education in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, and Vietnam.

Bernard Spolsky looks at the many debates at the forefront of language policy in this up-to-date introduction. The topics covered include ideas of correctness and bad language, bilingualism and multilingualism, language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages, language choice as a human and civil right, and language education policy. Spolsky develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it and...