Product Description: Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana...read more

Product Description: L’activité d’expertise et les discours d’individus érigés ou auto-proclamés en experts sont devenus omniprésents dans la société contemporaine. Cet ouvrage traite des discours et rapports qu’ils fournissent ou qui sont produits en leur nom...read more

Product Description: The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic changes appearing in contact settings. Contact-induced changes are dynamic and multiple, involving internal change as well as historical and sociolinguistic factors. Through a multifaceted methodology, the volume takes a fine-grained approach with its roots in a typological perspective...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments and project implementation, development and evaluation...read more