Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts
Adding to this evolving field of study, McLelland draws our attention to an under-represented identity, expanding our view of multilingual practices.
This book breaks new ground in language standardization and variation: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts.
The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization, offering a corrective to earlier work on standardization, which has tended to assume a monolingual nation state and monolingual individuals.
Taken together, the chapters in this book thus add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism.
Publication details and content overview
Published: 30 November 2021
Multilingual Matters
We wanted to add momentum to the growing recognition of multilingualism in sociolinguistic studies.
Readers will, we trust, draw their own lessons from the volume, but as we send it into the world, it’s worth highlighting what we editors have been privileged to learn from the project ourselves.
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Project funding
Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/N0 0 4 6 71/1], Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies We gratefully acknowledge additional funding from the University of Nottingham Ningbo.