Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism
This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today's society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and...
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AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism1"Holy languages" in the context of societal bilingualism15Forlorn hope?25When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios45Core values and nation-states69French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism?89The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries105Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra125On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status145Ethnolects - between bilingualism and urban dialect157The development of Navajo-English bilingualism171Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua199Xhosa as a "home appliance"? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown221Japan's nascent multilingualism249Managing multilingualism in Singapore275Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environment297Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students311Coda: Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism329Index345
