Multilingualism in Metropolitan London

Salverda, R.

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“…Entre as linguas máis faladas está o polaco, que ocupa o primeiro posto con máis de medio millón de falantes, pero son linguas non europeas coma o panjabi, urdu, bengalí, gujarati e árabe, as que ocupan os cinco postos seguintes sumando case un millón de falantes entre todas. A diversidade lingüística en Inglaterra concéntrase sobre todo na área metropolitana de Londres, onde se estima se falan 300 linguas diferentes (Salverda, 2002;Lansley, 2013). Máis de medio millón de londinenses teñen como idioma familiar unha lingua dos sur de Asia, 100.000 do leste asiáti-co e 130.000 do continente africano.…”

Section: O Transnacionalismo Lingüístico Cara á Europaunclassified

Ser inmigrante en tempos de crise: unha ollada multidisciplinar

Fernández¹,

Domínguez²

2016

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Section: O Transnacionalismo Lingüístico Cara á Europaunclassified

Ser inmigrante en tempos de crise: unha ollada multidisciplinar

Fernández¹,

Domínguez²

2016

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“…Sound estimates of languages, language needs, and spatial concentrations of speakers are of key interest both to those entrusted with planning municipal services and to a general public (cf. Extra & Yağmur, 2005Salverda, 2002;Simpson, 1997). Yet Manchester does not have any central system to collate or compare data sets on languages.…”

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“…Studies such as Morse (2003), Leimgruber (2013), Clyne andKipp (2006), Lo Bianco (2003) and Kraus (2011) have all dealt with ways in which policy responds to heterogeneous identities and the role of language in participation and equal access to services. A central issue is the availability of quantifiable data on language needs in the form of census or school-based surveys (Barni & Extra, 2008;Extra & Yağmur, 2011;Salverda, 2002). A third theme concerns the implications of urban multilingualism for the conceptualisation of linguistic identity.…”

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Multilingualism in a post-industrial city: policy and practice in Manchester

Matras

Robertson

2015

Current Issues in Language Planning

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Manchester (England), one of the first industrial cities, is now home to over 150 languages. Ethnic minority and migrant communities take active steps to maintain heritage languages in commerce and through education. The paper introduces a model for a holistic approach to profiling urban multilingualism that relies on triangulating a variety of quantitative data sets, observations, and ethnographic interviews. We examine how responses to language diversity reflect an emerging new civic identity, but at the same time rely on private and voluntary sector initiative: While the city officially brands itself as multicultural to attract foreign investment, language provisions are local, responsive, and de-centralised and often outsourced, and aim primarily at ensuring equal access to public services rather than to safeguard or promote cultural heritage or even to cultivate language skills as a workforce resource that is vital to economic growth. In such a complex and dynamic setting, there is a need for a mechanism to continuously monitor changes in language profiles and language needs.

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“…Barni (2006: 11) found traces of 24 varieties in the linguistic landscape of one neighbourhood in Rome, a predominantly monolingual Italian city. London, where Baker & Eversley (2000) estimated that school children speak over 300 different home languages, has been used to demonstrate the extensive linguistic diversity of modern urban settings (Salverda 2002).…”

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Multilingual interaction and minority languages: Proficiency and language practices in education and society

Gorter

2013

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0261444812000481How to cite this article: Durk Gorter (2015). Multilingual interaction and minority languages: Prociency and language practices in education and society. Language Teaching, 48, In this plenary speech I examine multilingual interaction in a number of European regions in which minority languages are being revitalized. Education is a crucial variable, but the wider society is equally significant. The context of revitalization is no longer bilingual but increasingly multilingual. I draw on the results of a long-running project on the 'Added value of multilingualism and diversity in educational contexts' among secondary school students, and show that there are interesting differences and similarities between the minority language (Basque or Frisian), the majority language (Spanish or Dutch) and English. The focus on multilingualism is applied inside and outside the school. The discussion demonstrates the complexity of everyday multilingual practices and the outcomes have implications for the gap between education and society and for further research into the linkages between language proficiency and actual language practices.

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Multilingualism in Metropolitan London

Cited by 5 publications

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Ser inmigrante en tempos de crise: unha ollada multidisciplinar

Ser inmigrante en tempos de crise: unha ollada multidisciplinar

Multilingualism in a post-industrial city: policy and practice in Manchester

Multilingual interaction and minority languages: Proficiency and language practices in education and society

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