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Language and the City (Language and Globalization)

By Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
0230018785, 9780230018785
Open Library ID
OL10194162M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1961614 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
243\243
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Социолингвистика

Description

Language and the City shows how the contemporary form of globalization has certain effects on language in social context and identifies the city as the most important site for the realization of these effects. The book challenges a set of assumptions that hold sustainable linguistic diversity to be inherently non-urban while regarding the city as an unproblematic site for understanding the social function of language. The central purpose of the work is to construct a fresh conceptual framework for understanding language-city relationships.

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