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Code switching (Linguistics) --- Language obsolescence --- Sociolinguistics --- Congresses --- East Africa --- -Language obsolescence --- -Sociolinguistics --- -Language and languages --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Language death --- Obsolescence of languages --- Historical linguistics --- Endangered languages --- Extinct languages --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Bilingualism --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Obsolescence --- Africa [East ] --- Language obsolescence - Africa, East - Congresses. --- Code switching (Linguistics) - Africa, East - Congresses. --- Sociolinguistics - Africa, East - Congresses. --- Script switching (Linguistics)

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This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies. A large number of interactions between well-educated immigrants from all continents and from more than a hundred countries, together with some including native speakers, are examined and participants’ answers to questionnaires compared with their actual communicative behaviour. The author raises questions of interest to many groups: linguists, educators, business people and sociologists. Which values are most salient and enduring, and which cause clashes between cultural groups? To what extent do people retain the communication style identified with their first language and how do these different styles impact on others?

Bilingualism --- Psycholinguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Discourse analysis --- Intercultural communication --- #KVHA:Discourse analysis --- #KVHA:Interculturele communicatie --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Anthropological aspects --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Discrimination & Race Relations --- Journalism & Communications --- Communication & Mass Media --- Bilingualism. --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Discourse Analysis. --- Intercultural Communication. --- intercultural competence.

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The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies involved in language policy and language planning situations, and the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and skills. The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists from many countries who explore the exciting interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, language choices, code switches, and associated topics. Thus, the aim of the volume is to open up language policy and language planning issues as observed in multilingual contexts (nations, institutions, other settings, and domains) to the wider community of critical sociolinguistics by concentrating on the relationship between language and power. More particularly, it offers a decidedly sociolinguistic perspective to the study of language and power, which likewise has been tackled from other perspectives in the areas of sociology and political science. This interdisciplinary relationship is important both for linguistics and for the sociology of language. In this way, the book is an important contribution to general linguistics, sociolinguistics, minority issues in multilingual settings as well as the social sciences. In honor of his upcoming 80th birthday (2006) , Fishman's colleagues and former students are preparing five volumes by him or about him, this being one of them.

Sociolinguistics --- Sociolinguistics. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Language policy. --- Language planning. --- Language and languages --- Planned language change --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Planning --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Language policy --- Langage. Sociologie. (Collection) --- Taal. Sociologie. (Reeks) --- intercultural communication. --- language planning.