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Volume 6 Issue 4

Issue of Multilingua

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Journal Overview

November 30, 2009

The cultural significance of silence in Japanese communication

TAKIE SUGIYAMA LEBRA

Page range: 343-358

November 30, 2009

Indigenous language shift and maintenance in Fourth World settings

BRUCE RIGSBY

Page range: 359-378

November 30, 2009

L’enseignement du français et les minorités francophones dans les provinces canadiennes à majorité anglophone

FRITZ ABEL

Page range: 379-398

November 30, 2009

Fashions in English or a standard?

CHARLES-JAMES N. BAILEY

Page range: 399-410

November 30, 2009

Some characteristics of sound patterns of Cameroon Standard English

PAUL MBANGWANA

Page range: 411-424

November 30, 2009

About this journal

Objective

Multilingua is an international academic journal for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life. It publishes original high-quality research for scholars, students and practitioners with an interest in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, pragmatics, social psychology of language, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. The journal is particularly interested in analyses of hitherto neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide. Preferred topics of interest include:

Bi- and multilingual communication

Language policy

Language-in-education

Inter-, trans- and cross-cultural communication

Language, discourse and communication in relation to migration, mobility across time and space, transnationalism and diaspora.

Translation and interpreting as a social practice

Multilingua publishes six issues per year. Apart from research articles it encourages other publication formats, such as scholarly debates, theoretical reviews, methodological reflections and thematic issues of wide importance to the field.

Article formats

Research articles, debates, review articles and thematic issues

Volume 6 Issue 4

Issue of Multilingua

Contents Volume 6 (1987)

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The cultural significance of silence in Japanese communication

Indigenous language shift and maintenance in Fourth World settings

L’enseignement du français et les minorités francophones dans les provinces canadiennes à majorité anglophone

Fashions in English or a standard?

Some characteristics of sound patterns of Cameroon Standard English

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