Download or read book A sociolinguistic investigation of multilingualism in the Canton of Ticino Switzerland written by Jürgen B. Heye and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A sociolinguistic investigation of multilingualism in the Canton of Ticino Switzerland written by Juergen B. Heye and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Multilingualism in the Canton of Ticino Zwitzerland written by Jürgen B. Heye and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Multilingualism in the Canton of Ticino Swizerland written by Jürgen B. Heye and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multilingualism and English written by Agnieszka Stępkowska and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2013 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as a result of the use of a -globalizing- language in a multilingual context. It has given the relationships that obtain between the various Swiss national languages a hierarchical character. The proposed Swiss framework indicates - viewed through a macro-sociolinguistic lens - that the present linguistic situation in Switzerland seems to reflect a growing symbiotic relationship between English and the Swiss vernaculars."
Download or read book Conflict and Compromise in Multilingual Societies written by Kenneth McRae and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1998-04-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the French Revolution, Switzerland developed from a country in which German dominated linguistically into a confederation of four officially recognized language groups -- German, French, Italian, Romansh -- concentrated in different geographical areas and marked by distinctive cultures and lifestyles. Following a historical overview of this development and the social and political institutionalization of the linguistic cleavages, McRae's study examines key elements in the functioning of modern Swiss society: political parties, federal and cantonal institutions, the media, educational and cultural policies, the relation between the linguistic cleavages and class and religion, the attitudes and behaviour of the four language groups to one another. It concludes by reviewing the various explanations advanced to explain the relative social and political stability of Switzerland. This book is the first volume in a projected multi-volume work examining four multilingual Western democracies. The volumes to come will focus on Belgium (scheduled for publication in 1985), Finland, and Canada.
Download or read book Alsatian Acts of Identity written by Liliane Mangold Vassberg and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German dialect spoken in Alsace (France), has rapidly lost way to French since 1945. This book investigates language choice, language attitudes and ethnic identity in Alsace today. The Alsatian case study points out the complex interrelationship of linguistic and identity change with historical, social and psychological processes.
Download or read book A Bibliography of American Doctoral Dissertations in Linguistics 1968 1974 written by Nancy Jokovich and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sociolinguistical Investigation of Multilingualism in the Canton of Ticino Switzerland written by Jürgen B. Heye and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language and Society written by William C. McCormack and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The German Language in Switzerland written by Felicity J. Rash and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad survey of issues relating to the German language in Switzerland. The initial focus is on the German-speaking community's relationship with the French, Italian and Romansh language communities. Consideration is then given to the complex issue of diglossia within the germanophone Swiss community, and the maintenance of both the Swiss German dialects and the Swiss German standard language as co-existent codes of equal status. The Swiss German dialects, the Swiss variety of standard German, and the influence of various foreign languages on both of these language forms are described in some detail. Finally, sociolinguistic issues affecting the German language in Switzerland are considered: the connection between social variation and linguistic change; language variation stemming from differences of age, sex and ethnic origin; and linguistic behaviour and phatic communication.
Download or read book Languages in Contact written by Uriel Weinreich and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral dissertation of 1951, Research Problems in Bilingualism with Special Reference to Switzerland. Based on the author's fieldwork, it contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between German and Romansh in the canton of Grisons (Graubünden). The present edition reproduces Weinreich's original text in full, with only minor alterations and corrections, as well as the author's fieldwork photographs and many of his hand-drawn diagrams. A new foreword reviews Weinreich's life and legacy, as well as developments in contact linguistics and the Swiss linguistic situation over the past 60 years. With selected comments on noteworthy points and references to more recent literature, this volume will be of interest not only to those working on the languages of Switzerland, or specialists in language contact, but all scholars today whose work builds on the broad and lasting foundations laid over half a century ago by Uriel Weinreich.
Download or read book Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living with Languages written by Joy Charnley and published by Occasional Papers in Swiss Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Expo. 02 - the Swiss National Exhibition - celebrated the modern identity of the Swiss Confederation and the electorate approved a historic change in relations with other countries by voting to join the United Nations. Yet, despite bilateral agreements regulating areas of common interest between Switzerland and the European Union, there are still strong fears that Swiss identity could be jeopardised by full membership, and that, within a wider framework, her quadrilingual composition could not be sustained. The experience which the Swiss have accumulated in dealing pragmatically and largely peacefully with different languages is detailed in the six essays of this volume. The special contemporary characteristics of German, French and Italian within Switzerland, the pressures on Romansh, the role played by Switzerland in integrating gender-neutral language into standard usage and the dominance of English as a means of communication between different language groups are amongst the topics discussed.
Download or read book International Handbook of Bilingual Education written by Christin Paulston and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook introduces a theoretical framework of the contextual situations of language maintenance and shift in which are found bilingualism and bilingual education. It presents us with the basic facts about language and language families in the world and where they are located, and illustrates the range of possibilities of languages in contact. A major portion of this important work is devoted to a series of case studies of bilingualism/multilingualism within nation states, arranged alphabetically, and representing specific situations in all corners of the world. Each chapter stands alone and can be read for the information it contains. The book provides a valuabe resource for theory testing and documents the range of educational policies for minority social groups, and emphasizes the legitimacy and importance of scholarly study of this complex social issue.
Download or read book Studies in Multilingualism written by Nels Anderson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
