Language and the City
| Author | : Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2007-06-29 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780230598928 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0230598927 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (927 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Language and the City by : Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
Download or read book Language and the City written by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the effects of globalization on language in social context, identifying the city as the key site for the realization of these effects. It challenges assumptions that hold sustainable linguistic diversity to be inherently non-urban while regarding the city as an unproblematic site for understanding the social function of language.
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