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Languages in Contact (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics) - Softcover

Book 14 of 16: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics

Lim, Lisa

 
9780521149259: Languages in Contact (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521149258 ISBN 13: 9780521149259
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

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About the Authors

Lisa Lim is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Language and Communication programme at the University of Hong Kong. She co-edited The Typology of Asian Englishes (2009) and English in Multilingual, Globalising Asia (2009). She has developed the online resource LinguisticMinorities.HK, for which she won the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2014.

Umberto Ansaldo is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His book Contact Languages: Ecology and Evolution (Cambridge, 2009) garnered the 2010 faculty research output award. He is co-editor of the Creole Language Library and editor-in-chief of Language Sciences.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521149258
ISBN 13 
9780521149259
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252