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Languages in Contact

Umberto Ansaldo author Lisa Lim author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Sep '15

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This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

Introducing new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together findings on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles.Introducing new findings from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a fascinating study of contact between languages in modern societies. Ansaldo and Lim bring together research on multilingualism, code-switching, language endangerment, and globalisation, into a comprehensive overview of world Englishes and creoles. Illustrated with a wide range of original examples from typologically diverse languages, including Sinitic, Autronesian, Dravidian and other non-Indo-European varieties, the book focuses on structural analyses of Asian ecologies and their relevance for current theories of contact phenomena. Full of new insights, it is essential reading for students and researchers across linguistics, culture and communication.

'Well-informed, timely, and unique in its focus on a wide variety of language contacts in an ever more globalized Asia.' Armin Schwegler, University of California, Irvine
'It is refreshing that Lim and Ansaldo's project is less a textbook on creolistics, of which the discipline does not need another instalment, and rather a summation of the field. It is a critical distillation of significant issues and debates in creole studies integrated within a more modern sociolinguistics involving research into multilingualism, code switching, language shift, and language and globalisation.' Joshua Nash, Languages in Contrast

ISBN: 9780521149259

Dimensions: 216mm x 139mm x 13mm

Weight: 320g

251 pages