Research Catalog

Title

The handbook of language and globalization / edited by Nikolas Coupland.

Publication

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coupland, Nikolas, 1950-

Description

ix, 662 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Uniform Title

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Subject

• Language and languages > Globalization > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Languages in contact > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Linguistic change > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Sociolinguistics > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Globalisierung
• Soziolinguistik

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Sociolinguistics in the global era / Nikolas Coupland -- Part I. Global multilingualism, world languages and language systems: 1. Globalization, global English, and world English(es): Myths and facts / Salikoko Mufwene -- 2. Global language systems / Abram de Swaan -- 3. The global politics of language: Markets, maintenance, marginalisation or murder? / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson -- 4. World languages: Trends and futures / Ulrich Ammon -- 5. Language policy and globalization / Thomas Ricento -- 6. Panlingual globalization / Jonathan Pool -- 7. The spread of global Spanish: From Cervantes to reggaetón / Clare Mar-Molinero -- 8. New national languages in Eastern Europe / Brigitta Busch -- Part II. Global discourse in key domains and genres: 9. Localising the global on the participatory Web / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- 10. Globalizing the local: The case of an Egyptian superhero comic / Theo van Leeuwen and Usama Suleiman --^
• Part IV. Language, distance and identities: 22. Shadows of discourse: Intercultural communication in global contexts / Claire Kramsch and Elizabeth Boner -- 23. Unraveling post-colonial identity through language / Rakesh M. Bhatt -- 24. At the intersection of gender, language and transnationalism / Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi -- 25. Globalization and gay language / William Leap -- 26. Metroethnicities and metrolanguages / John C. Maher -- 27. Popular cultures, popular languages and global identities / Alastair Pennycook -- 28. Global representations of distant suffering / Lilie Chouliaraki -- 29. Global media and the regime of lifestyle / David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen.

ISBN

• 9781405175814 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405175818 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010003118

OCLC

500823424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library