Australia's Language Potential
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-0-86840-727-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the paradox of a nation rich in language resources, yet characterised by monolingual thinking. With insight and passion, Clyne illustrates the ways in which our language resources can be consolidated and further developed for universal benefit.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86840-727-2 (9780868407272)
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Person
Michael Clyne has held professorial appointments in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, where he is now an honorary professorial fellow, and at Monash University, where he is Professor Emeritus. He has written extensively on bi- and multilingualism, intercultural communication and second language acquisition. His most recent books include Community Languages: The Australian Experience (1991) The German Language in a Changing Europe (1995) and Dynamics of Language Contact (1993). He has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour, the German Cross of Merit and an honorary doctorate of the University of Munich.
Content
List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Recognising Australia's multilingualism; 2 Valuing Australia's multilingualism; 3 Fostering and transmitting multilingualism; 4 Strengthening and spreading multilingualism; 5 Policy overview; 6 Supporting multilingualism collaboratively.