TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; OVERVIEW; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; OVERVIEW; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART III; OVERVIEW; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTE THIRTEEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Summary
This timely volume moves away considerably from traditional topics investigated in studies of multilingualism and linguistic identity to propose new analytical approaches that investigate postcolonial societies from the standpoint of their specific internal structures. The book uses postcolonial multilingual societies as gateways into complex webs of identity construction and group boundary definition, the interplay and functions of oral (indigenous) and written (foreign) languages in multili ..
Notes
Includes rev. version of papers originally presented at a section of the Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies Conference, which was held Dec. 9-11, 2005, Vienna, Austria
