Overview
- Addresses difficulties and failings as well as solutions and successes in the use of minimal languages
- Provides a practice-led follow-up volume to Minimal English for a Global World (Goddard 2018)
- Includes international examples from Australia, USA, Finland, Poland, the Pacific, and South Korea
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Finding the Best Words
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Language Learning and Intercultural Education
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Health
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About this book
This edited book explores the rising interest in minimal languages – radically simplified languages using cross-translatable words and grammar, fulfilling the widely-recognised need to use language which is clear, accessible and easy to translate. The authors draw on case studies from around the world to demonstrate how early adopters have been putting Minimal English, Minimal Finnish, and other minimal languages into action: in language teaching and learning, ‘easy language’ projects, agricultural development training, language revitalisation, intercultural education, paediatric assessment, and health messaging. As well as reporting how minimal languages are being put into service, the contributors explore how minimal languages can be adapted, localised and implemented differently for different purposes. Like its predecessor Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), the book will appeal to students and scholars of applied linguistics, language education and translation studies, as well as to professionals in any field where accessibility and translatability matter.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Much of his research lies at the intersection of language, meaning and culture. He has published widely in descriptive, theoretical and applied semantics, language description and typology, ethnopragmatics and intercultural communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Minimal Languages in Action
Editors: Cliff Goddard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64076-7Published: 25 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64079-8Published: 26 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64077-4Published: 24 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 352
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intercultural Communication, Language Education, Media and Communication, Applied Linguistics, Media Studies