Jørgensen Bilingualism and Social Relations

Turkish Speakers in North West Europe
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-85359-752-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten

This book examines the multilingual practices of Turkish-speaking adolescents in North Western Europe. It explores how the speakers use their different languages for a wide range of purposes such as saving face, showing respect or getting their way, but that these skills are almost never taken into account by the majority societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jørgensen, J Normann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Jørgensen J Normann:
Jens Normann Jørgensen passed away on 29 May 2013. He was a professor at the Lanchart Centre at University of Copenhagen. As a linguist, he had a strong interest in sociolinguistics, multilingualism and social inequality. His work includes research in very diverse fields, such as dialectology, distributive sociolinguistics, educational linguistics, linguistic ethnography, and language ideology. His influential ideas of languaging and polylingualism took form through his longitudinal studies of language variation and change among multilingual young people in Denmark. J. Normann Jørgensen is at the Department of Nordic, University of Copenhagen. His research interests are sociolinguistics with special emphasis on bilingualism, youth language and their importance for language variation.
He has published widely on the field of bilingual research.