Full Description
This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern societies bearing opportunities as well as challenges. It is the prime objective of this selection of contributions to give a differentiated picture of the chances of linguistic diversity. Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity pays tribute to more recent developments in the study of language, applied linguistics, and education sciences. Contributions in this volume discuss how the concept of language is contextualized in a world of polylanguaging, investigate latent factors of influence, multilingual individuals, multilingual proficiency, multilingual practices and development, multilingual communication as well as teaching practices and whether they foster or hamper multilingual development.
Contents
1. Introduction. Dynamics of linguistic diversity (by Peukert, Hagen); 2. Part 1. Concept of language as languages; 3. Conceptualizing language: Linguistic theory and language policy (by Ricento, Thomas); 4. Accent on the positive: Revisiting the 'Language as Resource' orientation for bolstering multilingualism in contemporary urban Europe (by Lo Bianco, Joseph); 5. Part 2. Contextual influences on multilingual development; 6. Home literacy activities of mono- and multilingual children in middle childhood (by Lagemann, Marina); 7. Heritage language use among Turkish and Vietnamese mothers in Germany (by Schnoor, Birger); 8. Biscriptality and heritage language maintenance: Russian in Germany (by Brehmer, Bernhard); 9. Part 3. Linguistic Features of Multilingual Communication; 10. Bilingual lexicon development in German in preschool children with the home languages Russian and Turkish (by Gagarina, Natalia); 11. Dominant language transfer in heritage languages: Redefining the 'structural', and the 'transfer' in 'structural transfer' (by Moro, Francesca); 12. Overarching consonant alternations: A case study of an unbalanced trilingual situation Bundeli - Hindi - English (by Oranskaia, Tatiana); 13. Part 4. Multilingual Discourse and Spaces; 14. Temporal adverbs as structuring devices in narratives of multilingual students (by Grommes, Patrick); 15. Teaching academic discourse practices in multilingual classrooms: Insights into coding results and qualitative analyses of a video study (by Lange, Imke); 16. Dublin: Linguistic habitus and hierarchies in the (new) multilingual city (by McMonagle, Sarah); 17. Index; 18. Name index
