'Along the Routes to Power': Explorations of Empowerment Through Language

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110185997
• ISBN13: 9783110185997
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary