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Language Policy

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Part of Key Topics in Sociolinguistics

  • Date Published: December 2003
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9780521804615

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  • 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.

    • Proposes a theory of, and identifies the principal forces affecting, language policy
    • Bases its theory on the analysis of a very wide range of national and local policies
    • Deals with a wide range of issues, such as the complexity of US policy, the growth of human and civil rights, the movement to preserve endangered languages, and the call for linguistic purity
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    ' … this is a clearly written book that touches upon virtually all the important and timely issues in language policy …'. Sociolinguistica

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    • Date Published: December 2003
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9780521804615
    • length: 264 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.45kg
    • contains: 4 tables
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Language practices, ideology and beliefs, and management and planning
    2. Driving out the bad
    3. Pursuing the good and dealing with the new
    4. The nature of language policy and its domains
    5. Two monolingual polities - Iceland and France
    6. How did English spread?
    7. Does the US have a language policy or just civil rights?
    8. Language rights
    9. Monolingual polities under pressure
    10. Monolingual polities with recognised linguistic minorities
    11. Partitioning language space - two, three, many
    12. Resisting language shift
    13. Conclusions.

  • Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses

    • Language Policy and Language Change
    • Language at Issue
  • Author

    Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
    Bernard Spolsky is Emeritus Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Senior Associate, the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland.

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