Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context: Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation - Softcover

Migge, Bettina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107595320 ISBN 13: 9781107595323

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book proposes a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies.

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About the Authors

Bettina Migge is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University College Dublin.

Isabelle Léglise is a permanent Researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads a programme on Language Contact at the SeDyL/CELIA-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues/Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique). Since 2000, she has been engaged in research projects in French Guiana, and, more recently, in Suriname and Brazil, with a special focus on multilingualism, contact-induced changes, language and migration, and educational issues. Her main research interests are language contact, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociology of language and applied linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107595320
• ISBN 13: 9781107595323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372