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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tony CapstickPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780815382737ISBN 10: 0815382731 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 10 September 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Human migration, culture, and language Chapter 2: Empires, Colonialism, and English Chapter 3: Immigration and migrant language education Chapter 4: From language learning to intercultural learning Chapter 5: Transnational networks Chapter 6: Globalization and cross-border flows Chapter 7: Language education in refugee settings Chapter 8: Internationalization in higher education (Co-authored by Sarah Mattin)Reviews"""This thought-provoking interactive volume tackles big themes in relation to a key current concern, human mobility, and what it entails for language. It has ambitious breadth of coverage, with topics ranging from colonialism and globalisation to literacy and multilingualism, online and off. This is matched by a wide-ranging geographical scope, as we travel from ancient Polynesia to contemporary urban UK via Mexico and Pakistan. In all, the work presents a satisfying and distinctive treatment of migration and language."" James Simpson, University of Leeds, UK ""Timely and accessible. Language and Migration presents powerfully curated global examples that ask us to engage critically with the politics of language in a world characterised by movement. An important resource for understanding and working with diversity."" Kerryn Dixon, Wits School of Education, South Africa ""In this volume Capstick combines sociolinguistic analysis with analytical tools and insights from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, geography, sociology and educational studies to illuminate the complex interactions between language practices and migration, and between language policies and wider political processes. This book will constitute an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in language and migration."" Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, USA" This thought-provoking interactive volume tackles big themes in relation to a key current concern, human mobility, and what it entails for language. It has ambitious breadth of coverage, with topics ranging from colonialism and globalisation to literacy and multilingualism, online and off. This is matched by a wide-ranging geographical scope, as we travel from ancient Polynesia to contemporary urban UK via Mexico and Pakistan. In all, the work presents a satisfying and distinctive treatment of migration and language. James Simpson, University of Leeds, UK Timely and accessible. Language and Migration presents powerfully curated global examples that ask us to engage critically with the politics of language in a world characterised by movement. An important resource for understanding and working with diversity. Kerryn Dixon, Wits School of Education, South Africa In this volume Capstick combines sociolinguistic analysis with analytical tools and insights from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, geography, sociology and educational studies to illuminate the complex interactions between language practices and migration, and between language policies and wider political processes. This book will constitute an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in language and migration. Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, USA Author InformationTony Capstick is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Reading. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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