Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Sociolinguistics

This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts. The chapters in this book look at both marginalization of others and self-marginalization, examining the pragmatic strategies used to achieve marginalization, and investigating situations where it acts as an agentive tactic of speakers, in addition to a strategy of broader social structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics,...

Die Studie untersucht die öffentlichen Diskussionen um Kasachisch und Russisch in der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik Kasachstan aus einer wissenssoziologisch-diskursanalytischen Perspektive. Es wird erforscht, wie verschiedene soziale Akteure die bestehende Sprachsituation in miteinander konkurrierenden Diskursen deuten und wie diese Interpretationen der kasachstanischen Sprachrealität eine spezifische soziolinguistische Ordnung konstituieren. Anhand von Bedeutungen, die dem Kasachischen und Russischen in den Diskurskämpfen zugeschrieben werden, rekonstruiert die Untersuchung den...

This volume analyses the policymaking, expectations, implementation, progress, and outcomes of early language learning in various education policy contexts worldwide. The contributors to the volume are international researchers specialising in language policy and early language learning and their contributions aim to advance scholarship on early language learning policies and inform policymaking at the global level. 

The languages considered include learning English as a second language in primary schools in Japan, Mexico, Serbia, Argentina, and Tanzania; Spanish language...

This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation from the reader and how this can be manipulated to introduce bias. Sirhan begins the book by examining the history of the ‘conflict’, and the many persistent myths that surround it. She analyses how five events in the ‘conflict’ (two in which the Palestinians are victims, two in which the Israelis are victims, and...