Bilingualism: A Social ApproachM. Heller Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions. |
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Part One Bilingualism Nation State and Capitalism | 23 |
Part Two The State the Economy and Their Agencies In Late Modernity | 135 |
Part Three Identity Practices | 231 |
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