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From language shift to language revitalization and sustainability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

From language shift to language revitalization and sustainability

This book aims to contribute to the overall, integrated understanding of the processes of language contact and their evolution, be they the result of political or economic (dis)integrations or migrations or for technological reasons. Via an interdisciplinary, holistic approach, it also aims to support the theoretical grounding of a unified, common sociolinguistic paradigm, based on an ecological and complexity perspective. This approach built on the fact that linguistic structures do not live in isolation from their social functions and must be situated in relation to the sub-and supra-systems that determine their existence if we are to understand their fortunes. It is a useful contribution to understanding and promoting the processes of linguistic revitalization in the world, combining at the same time the maintenance and development of diversity while ensuring the intercommunication of human species.

Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

The “language-communication-society” triangle defies traditional scientific approaches. Rather, it is a phenomenon that calls for an integration of complex, transdisciplinary perspectives, if we are to make any progress in understanding how it works. The highly diverse agents in play are not merely cognitive and/or cultural, but also emotional and behavioural in their specificity. Indeed, the effort may require building a theoretical and methodological body of knowledge that can effectively convey the characteristic properties of phenomena in human terms. New complexity approaches allow us to rethink our limited and mechanistic images of human societies and create more appropriate emo-co...

Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very fruitful for science. The book examines the theoretical framework and then applies its main principles to various areas of linguistics. It discusses applications in language contact, language change, diachronic linguistics, and the potential enhancement of classical approaches to historical linguistics by means of new methodologies used in physics, biology, and agent systems theory. It shows how studying language evolution and change using computational simulations enables to integrate social structures in the evolution of language, and how this can give rise to a new way to approach sociolinguistics. Finally, it explores applications for discourse analysis, semantics and cognition.

Cap a una sostenibilitat lingüística
  • Language: ca
  • Pages: 71

Cap a una sostenibilitat lingüística

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

En aquest lúcid i original assaig -que va merèixer ex aequo el premi IDEES d'Assaig Breu en l'edició del 2004-, Albert Bastardas aplica el concepte de sostenibilitat a la sociolingüística, i contribueix a crear un marc de reflexió sobre l'aplicació d'un model de desenvolupament harmònic de les llengües que superi les visions reduccionistes de la diversitat. Es tracta, doncs, d'una aproximació humanista i no instrumental o 'economicista' de les relacions entre comunitats lingüístiques a fi i efecte de revertir la tendència d'expansió i dominació que fins ara ha regit la gestió de la diversitat lingüística. Aquesta filosofia sostenibilista també postula un nou paradigma mora...

Family Multilingualism in Medium-sized Language Communities
  • Language: en

Family Multilingualism in Medium-sized Language Communities

Medium-sized language communities face competition between local and global languages such as Spanish, Russian, French and, above all, English. The various regions of Spain where Catalan is spoken, Denmark, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania show how their medium-sized languages (a term used to distinguish them as much from minority codes as from more widely-spoken codes) coexist alongside or struggle with their big brothers in multilingual families. This comparative analysis offers unique insight into language contact in present-day Europe.

Complexity in Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Complexity in Language

This book is about dynamical, social-interactional aspects of the emergence of complexity in language, explained by linguists, cognitivists, and modelers.

Sociolingüistica i llengua catalana
  • Language: ca
  • Pages: 248

Sociolingüistica i llengua catalana

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A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners

This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.

Questioning Language Contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Questioning Language Contact

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-21
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume critically exposes problems in present language contact analysis and uses empirical findings to provide answers to the following questions. What can we learn from the study of language contact for our knowledge of languages, their dynamics and their functions (systemic elaborations, language practices, semiotic developments)? How should linguistic theory incorporate the empirical findings of language contact studies, and how could these alter underlying postulates of existing models (choice of analysis and epistemic framework)? Which role has language contact been playing in the history of linguistic research and academic life? And how has this idea influenced individual researchers and their approaches?