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TitleBook: Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change
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Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Anne Pauwels
Publisher: de Gruyter

Summary: In line with the overall perspective of the Handbook series, the focus of Vol. 9 is on language-related problems arising in the context of linguistic diversity and change, and the contributions Applied Linguistics can offer for solutions.

Part I, “Language minorities and inequality,” presents situations of language contact and linguistic diversity as worldwide phenomena. The focus is on indigenous and immigrant linguistic minorities, their (lack of) access to linguistic rights through language policies and the impact on their linguistic future. Part II “Language planning and language change,” focuses on the impact of colonialism, imperialism, globalization and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for in responding to problems deriving from language contact and linguistic diversity. Part III, “Language variation and change in institutional contexts,” examines language-related problems in selected institutional areas of communication which will often derive from socioeconomic, cultural and other non-linguistic asymmetries. Part IV, “The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change,” analyses linguistic diversity, language change and language reform as issues of public debates which are informed by different ideological positions, values and attitudes.

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