Dangerous Multilingualism
Author | : J. Blommaert |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-11-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137283566 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137283564 |
Rating | : 4/5 (564 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dangerous Multilingualism written by J. Blommaert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it.