Linguistic Landscape in the City
- ISBN-10
- 1847692974
- ISBN-13
- 9781847692979
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Authors
- Elana Goldberg Shohamy, Eliezer Ben Rafael, Monica Barni
Description
Elana Shohamy is a professor and chair of the language education program at the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, where she teaches, researches and writes about multiple issues relating to multilingualism: language policy, language testing and language in the public space. --
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