Download or read book Plurilinguisme et identit s au Maghreb written by Foued Laroussi and published by Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'ouvrage rassemble des contributions d'auteurs français et maghrébins portant sur les rapports entre langues et identités au Maghreb très largement débattus actuellement. Alors comment les penser et dans quel cadre théorique ? Quels sont les arguments qui sous-tendent le discours identitaire ? Quelle est la portée du discours idéologique ? Des enquêtes de terrain associées à des réflexions théoriques permettront d'éclairer ces questions cruciales pour le Maghreb.
Download or read book Towards an Ecology of World Languages written by Louis-Jean Calvet and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfil various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers. Certain languages, like English, French and Chinese, are highly valued, while others are largely ignored. Even if all languages are equal in the eyes of the linguist, the world’s languages are in fact fundamentally unequal. All languages do not have the same value, and their inequality is at the heart of the way they are organized across the world. In this major book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, develops an ecological approach to language in order to analyse the changing structure of the world language system. The ecological approach to language begins from actual linguistic practices and studies the relations between these practices and their social, political and economic environment. The practices which constitute languages, on the one hand, and their environment, on the other, form a linguistic ecosystem in which languages coexist, multiply and influence one another. Using a rich panoply of examples from across the world, Calvet elaborates the ecological approach and shows how it can shed light on the changing forms of language use in the world today. This path-breaking book will be of great value to students and scholars in linguistics and sociolinguistics and to anyone concerned with the fate of languages in our increasingly globalized world.
Download or read book Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa written by Moha Ennaji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region– and in the Arab world at large – has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there has been a trend – albeit a contested one – toward a greater recognition of minority rights. The Arab world however, particularly North Africa, seems to be an exception to this trend, as Arab states continue to promote highly unitary and homogenizing ideas of nationhood and state unity, whilst discouraging, or even forbidding, minority political mobilization. The central theoretical premise of this book is that North Africa is a multicultural region, where culture is inherently linked to politics, religion, gender, and society, and a place where democracy is gradually taking root despite many political and economic hurdles. Addressing the lacuna in literature on this issue, this book opens new avenues of thought and research on diversity, linking policy based on cultural difference to democratic culture and to social justice. Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa will be of use to students and researchers with an interest in Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Political Science more broadly.
Download or read book Diglossia and Language Contact written by Lotfi Sayahi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed analysis of language contact in North Africa and explores the historical presence of the languages used in the region, including the different varieties of Arabic and Berber as well as European languages. Using a wide range of data sets, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the mechanisms of language contact under classical diglossia and societal bilingualism, examining multiple cases of oral and written code-switching. It also describes contact-induced lexical and structural change in such situations and discusses the possible appearance of new varieties within the context of diglossia. Examples from past diglossic situations are examined, including the situation in Muslim Spain and the Maltese Islands. An analysis of the current situation of Arabic vernaculars, not only in the Maghreb but also in other Arabic-speaking areas, is also presented. This book will appeal to anyone interested in language contact, the Arabic language, and North Africa.
Download or read book Language Planning and Policy in Africa written by Richard B. Baldauf and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longer-range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Arabic as a Minority Language written by Jonathan Owens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Download or read book Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics written by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entanglements of the Maghreb written by Julius Dihstelhoff and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture, politics, social affairs, and economics.
Download or read book Index Islamicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plurilinguisme et communication written by Universal Esperanto Association and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1986)
Download or read book French in and Out of France written by Kamal Salhi and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines policy planning and implementation and language variation in the realm of intercultural communication in France, Europe, the Americas, Australia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to discern trends in the development of the capacity of Francophone speakers to engage in dialogue across linguistic boundaries. Each study in the volume seeks to evaluate and analyse the antagonistic situations that have resulted from colonial culture and the post-independence hegemonic cultures. These situations are investigated through their expression in the French language and the languages with which it coexists in the countries considered here. The expertise of linguists and language specialists in this volume provides formalist and structural insights and an innovative phenomenology of language and newly available quantitative and qualitative studies of synchronic language. These methodologies are applied to a wide range of subject areas: law, history, literature, politics and society. Taken as a whole the book offers a fresh perspective on the issues surrounding French within and beyond France in the post-colonial and Francophone contexts.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics written by C. H. M. Versteegh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new multi-volume reference work, the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. A unique collaboration of over hundreds of scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics covers all relevant aspects of the study of Arabic and deals with all levels of the language (pre-Classical Arabic, Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic vernaculars, mixed varieties of Arabic).
Download or read book Arabic in the City written by Catherine Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited collection that examines how urbanization is causing language change in major Arab cities.
Download or read book Le nom des langues en Afrique sub saharienne written by Carole de Féral and published by Peeters Leuven. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: Languages are the object of multiple representations, often acquiring a number of different names. This volume sets out to question assignations and categorize about a thousand languages of sub-saharan Africa, from ethnic African to "official" European languages, and the amalgamate practices that result from the contact of both. French text. French description: Les langues sont l'objet de representations et d'enjeux multiples. Elles sont de ce fait souvent dotees de plusieurs noms, ce qui peut engendrer confusion et desaccords. Il convient donc de se demander qui nomme, quelle langue, pour qui et quand?. Ce volume consacre a l'Afrique sub-saharienne recense et questionne un millier de denominations qui se referent a des langues africaines (ethniques et vehiculaires), des langues europeennes qui assument la fonction de langues officielles, et des pratiques issues du contact entre ces langues europeennes et africaines (pidgins, creoles et parlers jeunes).
Download or read book Languages for Special Purposes written by John Humbley and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook gives an overview of language for special purposes (LSP) in scientific, professional and other contexts, with particular focus on teaching and training. It provides insights into research paradigms, theories and methods while also highlighting the practical use of LSPs in concrete discourse situations. The volume is transdisciplinary oriented with a firm basis in the language sciences, including terminology, knowledge transfer, multilingual and cross-cultural exchange.
Download or read book Nomadic Peoples written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of Romance Languages in Africa written by Ursula Reutner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
