Bilingualism: A Social Approach
by Heller, MonicaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-06-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
The contributors to this volume provide a critical examination of the notion of bilingualism as it has developed in linguistics and of its use in discourses of social regulation in state and civil society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They attempt to move the field away from a " common sense," but in fact highly ideologized, view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, and to develop a critical perspective which approaches " bilingualism" as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.
Author Biography
MONICA HELLER is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Her major publications in the field of bilingualism include Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives; Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography; Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference (edited with Marilyn Martin-Jones) and most recently Discours et identitiés. La francité canadienne entre modernité et mondialisation (edited with Normand Labrie).
Table of Contents
| Bilingualism as ideology and practice | p. 1 |
| Bilingualism : colonialism and postcolonialism | p. 25 |
| Minority language movements | p. 50 |
| Bilingualism and the nation-state in the post-national era | p. 71 |
| Beyond the nation-state : international agencies as new sites of discourses on bilingualism | p. 96 |
| Language endangerment, language rights and indigeneity | p. 111 |
| Language, migration and citizenship : new challenges in the regulation of bilingualism | p. 137 |
| Bilingualism, education and the regulation of access to language resources | p. 161 |
| Bilingualism and the globalized new economy : the commodification of language and identity | p. 183 |
| Bilingualism in the mass media and on the Internet | p. 207 |
| Language socialization and the (re)production of bilingual subjectivities | p. 233 |
| Heteroglossia and boundaries | p. 257 |
| Bilingualism, praxis and linguistic description | p. 277 |
| Bilingualism and the analysis of talk at work : code-switching as a resource for the organization of action and interaction | p. 297 |
| The monolingual bias in bilingualism research, or : why bilingual talk is (still) a challenge for linguistics | p. 319 |
| The future of 'bilingualism' | p. 340 |
| Postface : politique et ideologie : la cas du bilinguisme | p. 346 |
| English summary of Tabouret-Keller's postface : politics and ideology : the case of bilingualism | p. 357 |
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