A Multilingual Community At Work

Author : European Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Multilingual Community at Work written by European Commission and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1.A service with a mission The European Union's language charter - 2.Structure - 3.Working in the Translation service - 4.Recruitment - 5.Traineeships - 6.Freelance translation - 7. EC-Systran: machine translation - 8.Language libraries and documentation centres - 9.Terminology - 10.Information technology and databases - 11.Open to the world.

Author : Peter Auer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311019855X
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication written by Peter Auer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in international institutions in a globalized world. The authors use a problem-solving approach and ask broad questions about bilingualism and multilingualism in society, including the question of language acquisition versus maintenance of bilingualism. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of multilingualism and multilingual communication presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field, offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field

Author : Ofelia Garc?a
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 184769800X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism written by Ofelia Garc?a and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's globalized world. The volume offers new understandings of heritage language education, bilingual education, and speech communities for bilingual Americans in the 21st century.

Author : Gillian Sankoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027218633
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Lives in Language--sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities written by Gillian Sankoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

Author : Kellie Gonçalves
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1800416776
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Workers Talk written by Kellie Gonçalves and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s Hispanophone and Lusophone employees. Power asymmetries in internal communication demonstrate the employer’s legitimated domination over her employees and her L1 Portuguese as a form of linguistic capital. Employees’ resourcefulness and multicompetence – rather than quantifiable levels of English-language proficiency – determine the extent to which they rely on language brokering to facilitate communication with their customers, directly impacting their agency. The book contributes to current debates on extra-linguistic modes of communication in multilingual settings and thematic analyses of care work, migration, communication and the role of English.

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Download or read book A Multilingual Community at Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729075X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities written by Miriam Meyerhoff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.

Author : Hilde Fiva Buzungu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000871258
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Discordant Social Work in a Multilingual World written by Hilde Fiva Buzungu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic observations of encounters between social workers and people with whom they do not have a shared language, this book analyzes the impact of language discordance on the quality of professional service provision. Exploring how street-level bureaucrats navigate the landscape of these discretionary assessments of language discordance, language proficiency, and the need for interpreting, the book focuses on four main themes: the complexity of social work talk the issue of participation in language discordant meetings communicative interaction the issue of how clarification is requested when needed, and whether professionals and service users are able to reach clarity when something is unclear Based on the findings presented on these different aspects of language discordant talk, the consequences of language discordance for social work are presented and discussed, focusing primarily on issues at the intersection of language, communication, power, dominance and subordination, representation, linguicism, and ultimately, human rights and human dignity. It will be of interest to all social work students, academics and professionals as well as those working in public services and allied health more broadly.

Author : Tara Goldstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110815222
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Languages at Work written by Tara Goldstein and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating for a Multilingual Community written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this booklet is to give an account of one of the world's largest translation services, the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission.