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1 online resource (vi, 162 pages) |
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Multilingual matters ; 122 |
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Multilingual matters (Series) ; 122
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| Contents |
Language, nationalism and globalism : educational consequences of changing patterns of language use / Stephen Barbour -- Who we are and where we're going : language and identities in the new Europe / Jenny Cheshire -- The lexicon in European languages today : unification or diversification? / Richard Trim -- Lost in translation : EU language policy in an expanded Europe / Paul Gubbins -- Identity in transition : cultural memory, language and symbolic Russianness / Harald Haarmann -- Transformation of the state in Western Europe : regionalism in Catalonia and Northern Italy / Brendan Murphy, Cristina Diaz-Varela and Salvatore Coluccello -- Fixing national borders : language and loyalty in Nice / Sue Wright -- The French language, universalism and post-colonial identity / Mike Holt -- 'It's a culture thing' : children, language and 'boundary' in the bicultural family / Michael Anderson -- Language use and identity among African-Caribbean young people in Sheffield / Lerleen Willis -- Punjabi/Urdu in Sheffield : language maintenance and loss and development of a mixed code / Mike Reynolds |
| Summary |
Language and identity are closely interwoven: this collection of essays examines their relationship in a multicultural Europe and beyond and explores various ways in which language is used to forge class, regional and national identity. The question of multiple identity and the role of English are also considered |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Europe
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Nationalism -- Europe
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Nationalism
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Sociolinguistics
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Kulturelle Identität
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Sozialisation
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Sprache
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Sprachbewusstsein
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Nationale identiteit.
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Talen.
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Europe
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Europa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gubbins, Paul, 1949-
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Holt, Mike
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| ISBN |
9781853595578 |
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1853595578 |
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9786610827985 |
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6610827982 |
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