Heritage Language Policies around the World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Seals, Corinne A.; Shah, Sheena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The impetus for this book comes from the noticeable increased interest in heritage language research around the world, particularly in regards to education and policy. This edited collection will take the development and establishment of heritage language policies as its primary focus and will analyze these policies comparatively through international case studies. Gathering scholars from across the globe in a broad and inclusive approach to heritage languages, this book provides a fresh resource that will be valuable in informing new directions for the study of heritage languages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317274049
• Artikelnr.: 49268466

Autorenporträt

Corinne Seals is a Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She has recently published in the Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education (2017), the International Journal of Multilingualism, and Current Issues in Language Planning, among others. Sheena Shah is a Lecturer in Linguistics and Languages of Africa and Asia at SOAS University of London. She has published on endangered languages of Southern Africa, on Gujarati in London, Johannesburg, and Singapore, and on German varieties in Namibia and South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A Focus on Heritage Language Policy
(Corinne Seals and Sheena Shah)
Part I: Americas
2. Spanish in the United States
(Janet Fuller and Julio Torres)
3. Indigenous Languages in Canada
(Suzanne Gessner, Tracy Herbert and Aliana Parker)
4. Heritage Languages in Argentina
(Cristina Banfi)
Part II: Europe
5. Kven in Norway
(Pia Lane and Anna-Kaisa Räisänen)
6. Finnish, Meänkieli, Yiddish, Romany and Sami in Sweden
(Lena Ekberg)
7. Minority and Heritage Languages in Ireland
(Muiris ÓLaoire)
Part III: Africa
8. Amazigh in Morocco
(Yamina El Kirat El Allame and Yassine Boussagui)
9. German in Namibia
(Sheena Shah and Marianne Zappen-Thomson)
10. Luganda in Uganda
(Judith Nakayiza)
Part IV: Asia
11. Ryukyuan Languages in Japan
(Patrick Heinrich and Masahide Ishihara)
12. Jejueo in South Korea
(Matthias Brenzinger and Changyong Yang)
13. Gujarati in Singapore
(Sheena Shah and Ritu Jain)
Part V: Australasia
14. Te Reo M¿ori, Samoan, and Ukrainian in New Zealand
(Corinne Seals and Vincent Olsen-Reeder)
15. Indigenous and Immigrant Languages in Australia
(Tony Liddicoat)
16. Hindi in Fiji
(Nikhat Shameem)