Language is one of the key elements in the construction of human groups. All children are
socialized into their respective language groups, and adults, striving to maintain …

The ecology of language has been put forward as a useful orientation to the holistic
investigation of multilingual language policies because it draws attention to relationships …

This paper discusses structural and ideological challenges to mother tongue-based
multilingual education (MTB-MLE) which has in recent years been gaining ground in many …

An exploration of language socialization from very early childhood through to adulthood, not
only in often-studied communities in Canada and the United States, but also in Australia …

Although schools have long been recognized as primary sites for creating citizens of the
modern nation-state, in recent years traditional assimilationist and exclusionist notions of …

Impact: Studies in language and society impact publishes monographs, collective volumes,
and text books on topics in sociolinguistics. The scope of the series is broad, with special …

Though attracting some attention since its implementation, only a few scholars have closely
examined how the Philippines' Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) …

Language contact between Russian and Kyrgyz speakers in the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist
Republic and in present day Kyrgyzstan has historically been a source of conflict. With …

Abstract In South Africa, the high prestige of English and the negative social meaning of the
African languages in high-function public contexts has led to a strong preference for English …

Chapters 3 through 10 of this volume give ample examples of differences which hold
between Hungarian spoken in Hungary (HH) and a number of varieties of Hungarian …