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Bilingualism: A Social Approach (Palgrave Advances in Linguistics)

By Monica Heller

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
1403996776, 9781403996770
Open Library ID
OL11643150M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2084666 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
378\378
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The contributors to this volume provide a critical examination of the notion of bilingualism as it has developed in linguistics and of its use in discourses of social regulation in state and civil society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They attempt to move the field away from a "common sense," but in fact highly ideologized, view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, and to develop a critical perspective which approaches "bilingualism" as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.

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