Handbook Of Language And Communication: Diversity And Change

Description: This volume has four parts: Part I (Language minorities and inequality) analyses language contact and linguistic diversity as a global phenomenon; Part II (Language planning and language change) focuses on colonialism, imperialism and economics as factors that language policies and planning measures must account for; Part III (Language variation and change in institutional contexts) examines language-related problems in education, religion, science and the Internet; and, Part IV (The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change) relates public discourses on language and racism, sexism and political correctness to different ideological positions, values and attitudes. Author Biography: Marlis Hellinger, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Anne Pauwels, University of Birmingham, UK.