Antos, Gerd
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Hellinger, Marlis
[HerausgeberIn];
Knapp, Karlfried
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Handbook of language and communication
: diversity and change
Beschreibung:
Biographical note: Marlis Hellinger, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Anne Pauwels, University of Birmingham, UK.
The volume has four parts: Part I (Language minorities and inequality) analyses language contact and linguistic diversity as a global phenomenon, Part II (Language planning and language change) focuses on colonialism, imperialism and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for, Part III (Language variation and change in institutional contexts) examines language-related problems in education, religion, science and the Internet, and Part IV (The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change) relates public discourses on language and racism, sexism and political correctness to different ideological positions, values and attitudes. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of linguistic diversity and change presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field
Review text: "Die Artikel sind jeder für sich sehr instruktive Einführungen in, und Überblicke über die behandelten Themen. In der Mehrzahl der Artikel wird auch deutlich, welches Potenzial die Angewandte Linguistik zur Bearbeitung und Lösung gerade von Problemen im Kontext von sprachlicher Vielfalt und gesteuertem Sprachwandel besitzt."Reinhard Fiehler in: Germanistik 1-2/2008