Dominant Language Constellations -

Dominant Language Constellations

A New Perspective on Multilingualism
Buch | Hardcover
XIX, 282 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-52335-0 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt

This volume is dedicated to the concept and several applications of Dominant Language Constellations (DLC), by which it advances understanding of current multilingualism through addition of a novel perspective from which to view contemporary language use and acquisition. The term Dominant Language Constellation denotes the set of a person's or group's most expedient languages, functioning as an entire unit and enabling an individual or group to meet their needs in a multilingual environment. The volume presents pioneering contributions that employ DLC as the lens for analysing a wide array of issues. These include multilingual syntactic development, cross-linguistic interaction and multilingual production in formal and informal educational contexts, as well as linguistic profiles of multilingual groups used in elementary school and higher education. Other DLC issues include discussions of how identity, emotions and attitudes operate in various minority and majority contexts. Becausethe DLC concept does not assume any inherent hierarchy of languages it can serve as a framework public policy in multilingual countries/communities faced with challenging policy determinations regarding choice of languages for use in education settings and more widely in social institutions and the economy. Some chapters develop and extend the DLC concept, others adapt and apply it to a variety of contexts, both global and local. Many chapters feature educational and social settings across large parts of the world- Africa, Australia, Europe, North America (Canada and the USA) and Southeast Asia. The volume can serve as supplementary reading for courses on multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, educational linguistics, Second and Third Language Acquisition. 


Foreword  Li Wei.-Introduction.- Chapter 1: The  DLC: Concepts and Practical Applications: Joseph Lo Bianco and Larissa Aronin.- Part 1 Current Developments of DLC.- Chapter 2.  Dominant Language Constellation as an approach for studying multilingual practices: Larissa Aronin (Israel).- Chapter 3. A Meeting of Concepts and Praxis: Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Dominant Language Constellation Joseph Lo Bianco (Australia).- Chapter 4. Where DLC meets multilingual syntactic development Eva Fernández-Berkes and Suzanne Flynn  (The USA and Austria).- Chapter 5. Shifting Multi-Layered Dominant Language Constellations in Dynamic Multilingual Contexts: African Perspectives  Felix Banda  (South Africa).- Part 2 Institutional expressions of DLC.- Chapter 6.  Societal Versus Individual Patterns of DLCs in a Finnish Educational Context - Present State and Challenges for the Future Mikaela Björklund, Siv Björklund, and Kaj Sjöholm (Finland).- Chapter 7.  Language Background Profiling at Canadian Elementary Schools and Dominant Language Constellations  Nikolay Slavkov   (Canada).- Chapter 8. Dominant language constellations in the language repertoires of multilingual South African students  Susan Coetzee Van Rooy  (South Africa).- Part 3 Personal and group experiences with DLC.- Chapter 9. The Evolution of personal Dominant Language Constellation  Sarasi Kannangara  (Germany).- Chapter 10. Dominant Language Constellations of Russian Speakers in Cyprus Sviatlana Karpava  (Cyprus).- Chapter 11. Studying crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual production through the Dominant Language Constellation Stela Letica Krevelj  (Croatia).- Chapter 12.  A Dominant Language Constellations case study on language use and the affective domain Richard Mark Nightingale (Spain).- Conclusion - Chapter 13 Quo Vadis, DLC? Joseph Lo Bianco.  Name index.- Subject index.

 


"It is well structured and moves from the theoretical to social activism, from qualitative to quantitative, and from additive human groups to subtractive ones. It is comprehensive, covering social context and interaction in the family, friendships, work, education and online communication. The book covers different regions of the world ... ." (Daniel Quintero García, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, October 28, 2021)

“It is well structured and moves from the theoretical to social activism, from qualitative to quantitative, and from additive human groups to subtractive ones. It is comprehensive, covering social context and interaction in the family, friendships, work, education and online communication. The book covers different regions of the world … .” (Daniel Quintero García, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, October 28, 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Educational Linguistics
Zusatzinfo XIX, 282 p. 19 illus., 15 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 612 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Schlagworte Affective factors /Emotions in multilinguals • crosslinguistic influence • education of multilinguals • Globalization and languages • Language acquisition, SLA, TLA, Multiple language • Language acquisition, SLA, TLA, Multiple language acquisition • Language acquisition, SLA, TLA, Multiple language acquisition • Language use in society and/or languages in societ • Language use in society and/or languages in society • multilingual education • Multilingualism
ISBN-10 3-030-52335-7 / 3030523357
ISBN-13 978-3-030-52335-0 / 9783030523350
Zustand Neuware
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