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Language and Poverty

Language and Poverty

Harbert, Wayne
McConnell-Ginet, Sally
Miller, Amanda

Paperback

Series: Multilingual Matters, Book 141

LinguisticsGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1847691196
ISBN13: 9781847691194
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: Dec 9 2008
Pages: 225
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

This book explores the bidirectional relationship between language and poverty, from the perspectives of linguistics, language policy and planning, economics, anthropology, and sociology. On the one hand, poverty affects language survival; in modern times the fundamental determinants of language shift and language death are economic. On the other hand, the languages people speak, or don't speak, can influence their economic status in substantial ways, limiting or facilitating access to jobs and education and full participation in the functions of the society. The issues encompassed by the twin themes of the volume have assumed growing significance in an era of increasing globalization and accelerating change in economies, technologies and traditional social structures. They are of practical concern to people in a wide range of disciplines and professions, including politicians, educators, social workers, language planners, and others who work and live in multilingual contexts.

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