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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard Spolsky |
ISBN: | 0521804612 9780521804615 0521011752 9780521011754 0511615248 9780511615245 |
OCLC Number: | 52377617 |
Description: | xi, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Language practices, ideology and beliefs, and management and planning -- Driving out the bad -- Pursuing the good and dealing with the new -- The nature of language policy and its domains -- Two monolingual polities -- Iceland and France -- How English spread -- Does the US have a language policy or just civil rights? -- Language rights -- Monolingual polities under pressure -- Monolingual polities with recognized linguistic minorities -- Partitioning language space -- two, three, many -- Resisting language shift. |
Series Title: | Key topics in sociolinguistics. |
Responsibility: | Bernard Spolsky. |
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Abstract:
In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy. He develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it, and asks the central questions of how to recognize language policies, and whether language can actually 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 ...'. Sociolinguistica

