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Author:   E Annamalai
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Volume:   v. 8
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780761995210

ISBN 10:   0761995218
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   12 February 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

PART ONE: FUNCTIONING MULTILINGUALISM Introduction The Multilingual Scene Trilingualism through Schooling Tribal Bilingualism Role of the State, the Community and the Individual in Language Maintenance Challenges and Responses to Language Survival The Colonial Language in Multilingualism and the Process of Modernization PART TWO: PLANNING MULTILINGUALISM Multilingualism and the Constitution Multilingual Development Planned Language Development Emergence of Dominant Languages PART THREE: USING CODES IN MULTILINGUALISM The Nature and Function of Bilingual Mixing Lexical Insertion in a Mixed Language Factors in Code Mixing Linguistic Determinants of Convergence Direction of Convergence Distinguishing Features of Convergence

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'This book offers a clear, eloquent account of various facets of multilingualism in India. It addresses the challenge of managing, maintaining and promoting multilingualism in this case, offering a wealth of information on topics ranging from acquisition of multilingualism in family, social and professional settings, multiple identities, educational policies and language modernisation, to language conflict, minority-language maintenance and language mixing. The eighth in a series of excellent SAGE publications on language and development, the book presents a fine collection of the author's published and unpublished papers!. The analysis presented is insightful from both linguistic and scholastic viewpoints! this book is an invaluable resource for linguists, social and political scientists, policy-makers and those concerned with cultural studies' - Tej K Bhatia, Multilingual & Multicultural Development

`This book offers a clear, eloquent account of various facets of multilingualism in India. It addresses the challenge of managing, maintaining and promoting multilingualism in this case, offering a wealth of information on topics ranging from acquisition of multilingualism in family, social and professional settings, multiple identities, educational policies and language modernisation, to language conflict, minority-language maintenance and language mixing. The eighth in a series of excellent SAGE publications on language and development, the book presents a fine collection of the author′s published and unpublished papers…. The analysis presented is insightful from both linguistic and scholastic viewpoints… this book is an invaluable resource for linguists, social and political scientists, policy-makers and those concerned with cultural studies′ - Tej K Bhatia, Multilingual & Multicultural Development

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