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Language and the City

Name: Language and the City
Author: Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost
ISBN: 9780230018785

by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost

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Overview

Language and the City shows how the contemporary form of globalization has certain effects on language in social context and identifies the city as the most important site for the realization of these effects. The book challenges a set of assumptions that hold sustainable linguistic diversity to be inherently non-urban while regarding the city as an unproblematic site for understanding the social function of language. The central purpose of the work is to construct a fresh conceptual framework for understanding language-city relationships.

Synopsis

This book shows how the contemporary form of globalization has certain effects on language in social context and identifies the city as the most important site for the realization of these effects.

About the Author, Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost

DIARMAIT MAC GIOLLA CHRÍOST is Lecturer, School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK. He is a native of Ireland and an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning. He has written articles for various scholarly journals and is the author of Language, Identity and Conflict and The Irish Language in Ireland