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This book presents alternative voices in the contexts of present day and historical globalisation, the emergence of the knowledge society, increased global-local or glocal migration flows, the explosion of new information technologies and social media, and disparate regional growth that have both impacted and shaped the sociocultural fabric of geopolitical spaces across the world. The volume builds upon twenty seven studies from different corners of South Asia, the geopolitical spaces of the Middle East, Scandinavia and North America. These contributions focus upon issues related to Language, Culture and Identity from a multidisciplinary nexus of historical, philosophical and empirically-based traditions. The contributions constitute alternative voices to the overwhelming majority of work reported primarily in the anglosaxian traditions. In addition to being positioned in terms of post-colonial emic heritage, the research represented in this volume importantly challenges what is termed as the "monolingual (including monocultural) bias" and the "linguacentric bias" in the Language Sciences. The latter have been recognized as dominating the areas of language studies (particularly mai

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Author

S. Imtiaz Hasnain (editor), Shailendra Mohan (editor), Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta (editor)

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299764965

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Linguistics