Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism / edited by Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen.

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Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism -- I. Theoretical frameworks -- “Holy languages� in the context of societal bilingualism -- Forlorn hope? -- When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios -- Core values and nation-states -- II. Bilingualism worldwide -- French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism? -- The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries

Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contraOn attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status -- Ethnolects-between bilingualism and urban dialect -- The development of Navajo-English bilingualism -- Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua -- Xhosa as a “home appliance�? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown -- Japan�s nascent multilingualism -- III. Multilingual management and education -- Managing multilingualism in Singapore

Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language environmentUsing descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students -- Coda -- Changing paradigms in the study of bilingualism -- Index

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