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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its
Language: en
Pages: 370
Pages: 370
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-18 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in
Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. This book argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a cent
Language: en
Pages: 169
Pages: 169
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
John C. Maher explains why societies everywhere have become more multilingual, despite the disappearance of hundreds of the world languages. He considers our no