Multilingual Practices in Language History
Title | Multilingual Practices in Language History PDF eBook |
Author | Päivi Pahta |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2017-12-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1501504940 |
Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing multiple languages in various sources, and review terminology, theories and tools. The studies also revisit some of the issues already introduced in previous research, such as Latin interacting with European vernaculars and the complex relationship between code-switching and lexical borrowing. Collectively, the contributors show that multilingual practices share many of the same features regardless of time and place, and that one way or the other, all historical texts are multilingual. This book takes the next step in historical multilingualism studies by establishing the relevance of the multilingual approach to understanding language history.
Monolingual Histories, Multilingual Practices
Title | Monolingual Histories, Multilingual Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Gijsbert Rutten |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Title | Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History PDF eBook |
Author | Matthias Hüning |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027200556 |
Explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. This book argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. It offers an overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its relationship with ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility
Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora
Title | Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2018-01-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004276696 |
Challenging the Myth of Monolingual Corpora brings new insights into the monolingual ideal that has permeated most branches of linguistics, also corpus linguistics, for a long time. The volume brings together scholars in the many fields of English corpus linguistics from World Englishes, learner corpora and English as a Lingua Franca to the history of English. The approaches include perspectives of corpus compilation, annotation and use.
Multilingualism and History
Title | Multilingualism and History PDF eBook |
Author | Aneta Pavlenko |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2023-03-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1009236245 |
We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range from ancient Rome and Egypt to medieval London and Jerusalem, from Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires to modern Norway, Ukraine, and Spain. Going against the grain of traditional language histories, these thought-provoking case studies challenge stereotypical beliefs, foreground historic normativity of institutional multilingualism and language mixing, examine the transformation of polyglot societies into monolingual ones, and bring out the cognitive and affective dissonance in present-day orientations to multilingualism, where 'celebrations of linguistic diversity' coexist uneasily with creation of 'language police'.
New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education
Title | New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education PDF eBook |
Author | BethAnne Paulsrud |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2017-05-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783097833 |
This edited collection explores the immense potential of translanguaging in educational settings and highlights teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship on translanguaging and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. The chapters provide rich empirical research and document translanguaging in varied educational contexts, with studies from pre-school to adult education in different, mainly European, countries, where English is not the dominant language. Together they expand our understanding of translanguaging and how it can be applied to a variety of settings. This book will be of interest to students and researchers, especially in education, language education and applied linguistics, as well as to professionals and policymakers.
Multilingual Computer Assisted Language Learning
Title | Multilingual Computer Assisted Language Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Buendgens-Kosten |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2018-08-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 178892150X |
Recent developments in education, such as the increasing linguistic diversity in school populations and the digital revolution which has led to new ways of being, learning and socialising, have brought about fresh challenges and opportunities. In response, this book shows how technology enriches multilingual language learning, as well as how multilingual practices enrich computer assisted language learning (CALL) by bringing together two, thus far distinct, fields of research: CALL and multilingual approaches to language learning. The collection includes contributions from researchers and practitioners from three continents to illustrate how native languages, previously studied languages, heritage languages or dialects are activated through technology in formal and informal learning situations. The studies in this book showcase multilingual language use in chat rooms, computer games, digital stories, ebook apps, online texts and telecollaboration/virtual exchange via interactive whiteboards. This volume will be of interest to researchers interested in language learning and teaching and to practitioners looking for support in seizing the opportunities presented by the multilingual, digital classroom.