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"Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field"--
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Since the inception of modern contact linguistics through the works of Weinreich (1953) and Haugen (1953), numerous investigators have studied the manifestations of language contact across different disciplines, naturally adopting varied perspectives and approaches relevant to their particular field of inquiry. In spite of the many approaches and interests, quite simply, when speakers of different languages interact closely, it is typical for their languages to influence each other. The influ...
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Languages in contact --- Immigrants --- Language.
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As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguis...
Cultural pluralism --- Multiculturalism --- Languages in contact
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This book is a collection of papers written in honour of Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The chapters that follow have been written by linguists affiliated with different universities in Poland and abroad, all of whom wish to pay tribute to Elżbieta's outstanding work and contribution to language contact scholarship. The papers focus in large measure on contact linguistics, but some of them address also other phenomena.
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Spanish language --- Languages in contact. --- Variation. --- Dialects.
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