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Languages in Contact (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
Lisa Lim
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Description for Languages in Contact (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
hardcover. This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication. Series: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 251 pages, 2 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. Illustrated with a wide range of original examples from typologically diverse languages, including Sinitic, Autronesian, Dravidian and other non-Indo-European varieties, the book focuses on structural analyses of Asian ecologies and their relevance for current theories of contact phenomena. Full of new insights, it is essential reading for students and researchers across linguistics, culture ... Read more
Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. Illustrated with a wide range of original examples from typologically diverse languages, including Sinitic, Autronesian, Dravidian and other non-Indo-European varieties, the book focuses on structural analyses of Asian ecologies and their relevance for current theories of contact phenomena. Full of new insights, it is essential reading for students and researchers across linguistics, culture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Series
Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521767958
SKU
V9780521767958
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Ref
99-24
About Lisa Lim
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Languages in Contact (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
'Well-informed, timely, and unique in its focus on a wide variety of language contacts in an ever more globalized Asia.' Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine 'It is refreshing that Lim and Ansaldo's project is less a textbook on creolistics, of which the discipline does not need another instalment, and rather a summation of the field. It is a critical ... Read more