Vielsprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit
Beyond Language Boundaries Multimodal Use in Multilingual Contexts
Ed. by Fernández-Villanueva, Marta / Jungbluth, Konstanze
de Gruyter, August 2016, 978-3-11-045640-0
The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers.
Firstly, theoretical...
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Sprachen, Wissenschaft und Philosophie
Seminar: Multilingualism and Theory: Critical Intersections
American Comparative Literature Association
Organizer: Visnja Krstic
Co-Organizer: Kate Costello
Multilingualism has emerged in the past few years as a site of critical attention within comparative literature and world literature. The myth of monolingualism and the presumed equivalency between nation and national language have given way to a new mode of scholarship that privileges the...
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Sprachpolitik und Sprachrechte
New publication: Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?
Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
Author: Amir Kalan
Multilingual matters, 2016, ISBN 9781783096176
More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far...
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Sprachpolitik und Sprachrechte
Neuerscheinung: Sprach(en)politik, eine Einführung
Heiko F. Marten
Narr Verlag, 2016
Ob es um die Rechtschreibreform geht, um Anglizismen im Deutschen oder um den Umgang mit Migranten- oder Minderheitensprachen - Debatten und Meinungen zu Sprache(n) und Sprachformen sind Teil unseres Alltages. Dass Sprache auch Gegenstand der Politik ist, also Sprache und das Verhältnis von Sprachen in der Gesellschaft - bewusst oder unbewusst - gesteuert...
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Vielsprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit
The amazing benefits of being bilingual
12 August 2016, BBC, Gaia Vince, features correspondent
Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues. If so, asks Gaia Vince, are those of us who speak only one language missing out?
In a cafe in south London, two construction workers are engaged in cheerful banter, tossing words back and forth. Their cutlery...
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Sprachdynamik und sprachliche Variationen
Sprachnationalistische Bewegungen in der Romania
Lidia Becker, Hamburg, 2016, editorial Buske
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