Language Policy
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 22 December 2009
- 11 December 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780511615245
- 9780521804615
- 9780521011754
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.46kg, 264 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.37kg, 264 Pages
- Series:
- Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
- Subjects:
- Sociology: General Interest, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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- Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
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- Sociology: General Interest, Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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Book description
Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages; language choice as a human and civil right; and language education policy. Through looking at the language practices, beliefs and management of social groups from families to supra-national organizations, he develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it, such as the demands for efficient communication, the pressure for national identity, the attractions of (and resistance to) English as a global language, and the growing concern for human and civil rights as they impinge on language. Two central questions asked in this wide-ranging survey are of how to recognize language policies, and whether or not language can be managed at all.
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' … this is a clearly written book that touches upon virtually all the important and timely issues in language policy …'.
Source: Sociolinguistica
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