Investigating the role of language in the identity construction of scholars : coming to terms with inter-cultural communicative competence /

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Author / Creator:Foncha, John Wankah, author.
Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11910800
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Other authors / contributors:Sivasubramaniam, Sivakumar, author.
Adamson, John, author.
Nunn, Roger, author.
ISBN:9781443812900
1443812900
1443894710
9781443894715
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 9, 2017).
Summary:Many people across the globe are today experiencing an era characterised by increasingly dynamic population mobility. It is, consequently, a time where previously held assumptions about individual and group identities, and about the social and political semiotics that shape them, seem inadequate. Languages and cultures are at the heart of what has been termed this "superdiversity". In contemporary superdiverse societies, the question of language poses a particularly difficult challenge, with new cultural realities giving rise to new questions. In in such circumstances, how can linguistic and c.
Other form:Print version: Foncha, John Wankah. Investigating the role of language in the identity construction of scholars. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443894710 9781443894715