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Australia is host to many languages - English, indigenous, migrant, and contact. Its multilingualism, the sociopolitical changes that have been impacting upon them, and its wide-ranging language policy efforts are well-known. What has been missing so far is a comprehensive, integrative study of the entire 'habitat' of languages - the contacts and interactions that have been taking place from the beginning of colonization to the present day with their linguistic outcomes. This book and its companion, Australia's Many Voices. Australian English - The National Language, develop and apply such an approach. The present book deals with non-mainstream varieties of English, indigenous, migrant, and contact languages. Based on census and other data to 2003, it addresses themes such as language demographics, language shift, and socio-psychological factors that bear upon it. Language change is discussed from the angle of the uprooting of indigenous languages from their original context, of transplantation, and of contact with English. Pidgins and creoles are located inside the Pacific context of the nineteenth century. This study provides an analysis of language and language-education policies to 2003 and connects this theme with the role of Australian English, the national language. It suggests that Australia's habitat is reaching a new stage of plurilingual tolerance. The book is of interest for specialists from a wide range of language and policy disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in linguistics.

Multilingualism --- Linguistic minorities --- Language policy --- Language and languages --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Minority languages --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Government policy --- Minorities --- Sociolinguistics --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Political aspects --- Australia --- Minoritized languages

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As a field in its own right, Minority Language Media studies is developing fast. The recent technological and social developments that have accelerated media convergence and opened new ways of access and exchange into spaces formerly controlled by media institutions, offer new opportunities, challenges and dangers to minority languages, and especially to their already established media institutions. This book includes debates on what convergence and participation actually mean, a series of case studies of specific social media developments in minority language, as well as comparative studies on how the cultural industries have engaged with the new possibilities brought about by media convergence. Finally, the book also offers a historical review of the development of Minority Language Media worldwide, and evidences the areas in which more extensive research is required.

Minorities in mass media. --- Minorities in the mass media industry. --- Linguistic minorities. --- Social media. --- Web 2.0 --- World Wide Web --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Minority languages --- Language and languages --- Minorities --- Sociolinguistics --- Mass media --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects --- Minoritized languages

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This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual agency, resistance and struggle. In addressing questions such as 'under what local conditions does "dis-citizenship" happen?'; 'what role do language policies and pedagogic practices play?' and 'what kinds of margins and borders keep humans from fully participating'? The chapters in this volume shift the debate away from visas and passports to more uncertain and contested spaces of interpretation.

Language and languages --- Language policy. --- Citizenship. --- Nationalism. --- Linguistic minorities --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- Sociolinguistics --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Political aspects. --- Government policy. --- Civil rights. --- Education. --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- Language and languages Political aspects --- Minoritized languages

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Migration and the mobility of citizens around the globe pose important challenges to the linguistic and cultural homogeneity that nation-states rely on for defining their physical boundaries and identity, as well as the rights and obligations of their citizens. A new social order resulting from neoliberal economic practices, globalisation and outsourcing also challenges traditional ways the nation-state has organized its control over the people who have typically travelled to a new country looking for work or better life chances. This collection provides an account of the ways language addresses core questions concerning power and the place of migrants in various institutional and workplace settings. It brings together contributions from a range of geographical settings to understand better how linguistic inequality is (re)produced in this new economic order.

Sociolinguistics. --- Linguistic minorities --- Immigrants --- #SBIB:309H518 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:316.8H16 --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Minority languages --- Language and languages --- Minorities --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Employment. --- Language. --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: migranten, rassenrelaties --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Immigranten --- Sociolinguïstiek --- Taalminderheden --- sociolinguïstische studies --- Sociolinguïstiek. --- sociolinguïstische studies. --- Employment --- Language --- Foreign workers. --- Sociolinguïstische studies. --- Alien labor --- Foreign labor --- Guest workers --- Guestworkers --- Immigrant labor --- Immigrant workers --- Migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Noncitizen labor --- Noncitizens --- Employees --- Minoritized languages

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Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life.

Multilingualism --- Languages in contact --- City dwellers --- Linguistic minorities --- Ethnicity --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- City population --- City residents --- Dwellers, City --- Residents of cities --- Urban dwellers --- Urban people --- Urban population --- Urban residents --- Urbanites --- Persons --- Population --- Areal linguistics --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Political aspects --- Antwerp (Belgium) --- Anṿerśah (Belgium) --- Anṭṿerpen (Belgium) --- Antwerpen (Belgium) --- Antuerpia (Belgium) --- Anvers (Belgium) --- Anversa (Belgium) --- Antwerpia (Belgium) --- Anwerpia (Belgium) --- Andowerpia (Belgium) --- Amberes (Belgium) --- Antverpia (Belgium) --- Ambivaritum (Belgium) --- Anderpus (Belgium) --- Andevorpum (Belgium) --- Andoverpis (Belgium) --- Andoverpum (Belgium) --- Antwerpha (Belgium) --- Antwerpium (Belgium) --- Antwerpo (Belgium) --- Antwerpum (Belgium) --- Handoverpia (Belgium) --- Andwerpa (Belgium) --- Antverpis (Belgium) --- Antverpo (Belgium) --- Antverpum (Belgium) --- אנטווערפען --- Languages. --- Minoritized languages --- Antwerp. --- complexity. --- conviviality. --- ethnography. --- linguistic landscapes. --- linguistic landscaping. --- migration. --- multilingual signs. --- multiliteracies. --- multimodality. --- sociolinguistic landscapes. --- superdiversity.